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For Recent College Graduates: How-To Stack the Odds In Your Favor Thumbnail

For Recent College Graduates: How-To Stack the Odds In Your Favor

Looking back on my own life, and the decades of research and professional experiences I've had, I have distilled a few very simple things that can stack the odds in your favor. (If you know someone who has recently graduated from college, I hope you will share this with them.)

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, May 27, 2023 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, May 27, 2023

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk To Yourself (Video) | Can Movies Help You Become a Better Person? | Why We Forget That Most People Are Good | How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty | The 10 Greatest US Investors and the Virtues That Made Them

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5 Ways Investing Can Help You – Above and Beyond Realizing Your Goals Thumbnail

5 Ways Investing Can Help You – Above and Beyond Realizing Your Goals

If Abraham Maslow taught a class in personal finance, he would have described earning and saving as the foundation of any personal financial success program. Earning allows us our physiological needs – food, shelter, clothing – and saving is the bedrock of security. Earning and saving would be the bottom two levels of his famous pyramid.

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, April 22, 2023

Why Friendships Among Men Are So Important | Ten Charts I Can't Stop Thinking About | Yours Robotically | New Push on US-Run Free Electronic Tax-Filing System for All | NBER Working Paper Series: Personality Differences and Investment Decision-Making | Owl City - Dinosaur Park (from new album Coco Moon) Lyrics [Full HD] (Video)

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, April 15, 2023 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, April 15, 2023

How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön | Twelve New Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity | We All Get “Monkey Mind” — and Neuroscience Supports the Buddhist Solution | Negativity Drives Online News Consumption | 5 Ways Investors Can Succeed by Knowing Their Limits | PHOTOS: See the Wildflower 'Superbloom' Happening Across California

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Why Do We Invest? What is the Point of Deferring Gratification? Love. Thumbnail

Why Do We Invest? What is the Point of Deferring Gratification? Love.

There is a lot of ink spilled on the how's and wherefore's of deferring our gratification. But, with so many choices in front of us in every moment… why should we bother? Why not live in the moment? The answer is Love.

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, April 1, 2023 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, April 1, 2023

What to Read and Watch When You're Sad and Just Want to Wallow a Little Bit | ‘Is This It?’ When Success Isn’t Satisfying | Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It | How To Log Off | Charley Ellis: Six Nuggets of Investment Wisdom

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, March 11, 2023 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, March 11, 2023

Examining the History of the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide Shows Stagnating Progress on Closing These Disparities | In Defense of the Unoptimized Life | Americans Largely Satisfied With Their Personal Life | How Sensitive People Can Stop Taking Things So Personally in Their Relationships | The Long Term Investor: How to Measure the Success of Your Portfolio (Podcast)

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Simple, Basic, Mindful Investing Thumbnail

Simple, Basic, Mindful Investing

All successful long-term investors are continuously acting on a plan that is founded on their deeply personal values and goals. They are appropriately allocated, they are broadly diversified, and they rebalance regularly. They are patient and remain mindful of their limitations. No one knows what is coming next.

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