Mindful Money Blog

Leading with heart & boosting the vulnerability even more: Ashanti Branch talks with Jonathan DeYoe about men dealing with fear & anxiety, vulnerability & grief on this episode of Taking Off The Mask.

Thinking About Reaching Out to Someone? Science Says Do It | Before You Fly The Nest: Advice For Kids Heading to College | An Ancient Technique Can Improve Your Attention Span | Occam’s – How Buffer Assets Might Be Able to Help Your Retirement | How Much Money Do People Need to Be Happy?

On Sarcasm | Misinformation Is Here To Stay (And That’s OK) | A Flaw in Human Judgment: How Making Decisions Isn’t As Objective As You Think | The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements | What Do You Spend Money On? Lessons From Our Clients About Spending that Brings True Joy

How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World | How to Be a Little Less Judgmental | Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way? | History.io: 14 Billion Years | Five Key Findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects

Beauty is around us all the time. Sometimes we can’t see it. Sometimes we won’t let ourselves see it. Beauty, like everything else, is impermanent. It arises, it abides awhile, and it goes. When it goes, it is replaced by a new experience – some will be painful, some will be wonderful. Reality is a river of these experiences, one after another.

Seven Varieties of Stupidity | ‘Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine’ | I’m Right, and You’re an Evil Monster | Vanguard Active or Vanguard Passive: Which is Best? | Concealing Volatility

One of the good things about terrible loss is that it opens the heart in ways you cannot predict. No one can handle this alone. We can only handle this sort of loss in community. Human connection is the thing that makes our lives meaningful. Human connection with a shared purpose can make them amazing.

Aristotle Goes to Hollywood | Earnings Math Catches Up With the Tech Highfliers | The Medical Power of Hypnosis | Howard Marks Memo: Bull Market Rhymes | How Your Siblings Can Make You Happier | Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blair’s Mistress

Nobody Knows Anything, Kentucky Derby Edition | No, America Is Not Collapsing | How Good Are You at Detecting Bullshit? Take Our Test | The Key to a Good Parent-Child Relationship? Low Expectations. | How to Know When to Stop

How To Make New Friends as An Adult—And Keep Them | The Mental Health Consequences of Staring at Yourself on Zoom All Day | Bitcoin Is Not an Investment — I’m Glad I Sold It | Why I Walk | 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards

Why American Teens Are So Sad | Employee Performance Vs. Trust | Asset Allocation Drives Returns | The Midlife Unraveling | Who We Spend Time With as We Get Older

The Pyramid of Leisure | This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 2 Secrets From Research | The Man You Should Be Reading | Money Can Buy Happiness (In Variable and Diminishing Quantities) | Drone Footage Shows Everything Going On Inside Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory | Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter

We Desperately Need to Disrupt Our Approach to Retirement Saving | A Once Radical Idea to Close the Wealth Gap Is Actually Happening | Low Expectations | The Myths and Reality of Modern Friendship | The Art of Money

Berkeley May Explore Making Reparations to Black Residents | A Startup Is Sucking CO2 From the Sky and Making Diamonds. No More Mining? | The Backpacker’s Trail Calendar: 103 Hikes to Make 2022 Your Best Year Ever | Applying the Practice of Mindfulness to Money Management | Inside the Bubble

Heuristics That Almost Always Work | Let Your Kids Be Bad at Things | Be Suspicious | Diversification Doesn’t Feel Good, Here’s Why | Principles of Economics, Translated (VIDEO)

Black History Month | Reasons to be Cheerful | Empathy Is a Muscle You Build | We’re Seeing a Virtual Repeat of the Dot-Com Crash | The Moral Calculations of a Billionaire

How to Perform Well Under Pressure | Derek Sivers: Books I’ve Read | Everyone Gets Rejected. Here’s What Our Readers Learned from Their Toughest Ones. | How Much Americans Make

“The question pounds my head, ‘What’s a Lifetime of achievement? If I pushed you to the edge, but you were too polite to leave me." I can’t get the lyric out of my head. As I grow and age, it's a good thing that new realizations lead to change.

Why Paul Simon? | Dodging the Diderot Effect | Hugging the X-Axis | How to Become a Better Listener | Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma | Why It’s Too Early to Get Excited About Web3 | A Wild, Emotional Year Has Changed Investing—Maybe Forever