Tag: status

Mark Zuckerberg:
Net worth = $37.5B
Car worth = $24,000
Cloth worth = $40 (jeans and T-shirt)
Lesson: live below your means,
Car and cloth are not important

Warren Buffett:
Net Worth = $52B
Home cost = $26,000
Still lives in it since 50 years.
Lesson: Home is where you are comfortable. Choose modest living for peace of mind.

Beyoncé:
Net Worth = $380 M
Spends on Jewelry and makeup = $0
Used only gifts
Lesson: hack life with freebies

Ingvar Kamprad:
Net Worth = $2.8B
Founder of ikea
Always Uses both sides of a paper
Eats in ikea stores all the times
Lesson: use what you got. Don’t waste.

Michael Bloomberg:
Network = $34B
Has two pairs of work shoes.
Gets them resoled and reheeled instead of buying new ones.
Lesson: nothing wrong with cutting down unnecessary expenses.

Jay Leno:
Networth= $294M
Works two jobs. Saves one salary.
Lesson: discipline yourself for saving.

T Boone Pickens (BP)
Networth = $1.25B
Followed strict shopping list and only carried enough cash to buy what is on the list to stick to his budget.
Lesson: have a budget and don’t deviate

Elon Musk
Networth = $10.6B
Trained himself on living on a $1 per day before he left his job to become an entrepreneur and focus on his dreams.
Lesson: cut expenses and be ready to live on nothing

Steve Jobs
Networth = $5.7B
Never bought a new winter coat since he didn’t think he would use one enough to make him buy a new one.
Lesson: only buy what you really need

United States Motto:

“e pluribus unum”

out of many, one since 1776

Replaced in 1956 by Eisenhower to become:

“In God We Trust”

A violation of Separation between Church and State?

“In Zorach v. Clauson (1952), the Supreme Court also wrote that the nation’s “institutions presuppose a Supreme Being” and that government recognition of God does not constitute the establishment of a state church as the Constitution’s authors intended to prohibit.”

No mentally healthy and fully lived life can be achieved with a 40 hours work week schedule.

The 40 hours American Industrial standard is based on a neoslavery imbalanced life, barely surviving to continue production.

Europe did better with a 35 hours work week.

Ideally, I would say 25-30 hours week should be the maximum, if a person is practicing deep work, using tools such as Pomodoro or 30/30. For cognitive work, Research shows they will be more productive!

If you have a Barnes and Nobles in your city, you should never be bored.

Which is more tragic, Beslan or Karbala?

This year is the first three-year period of consecutive life expectancy declines since WWI and the Spanish Flu in 1918…

and it is due to ….

Opioid abuse.

Statistically, average empathic guys earn two and half time the average narcissistic ones.

George Valliant study

Know these 20 in 2018 (talk about this coming):
1. The 80/20 rule.
2. Parkinson’s Law.
3. Batching and Automation.
4. Value: First give then get.
5. Minimalism maximizes life.
6. Fail fast and early.
7. The key to happiness is Healthy Relationships.
8. Assume rapport.
9. Visualize Goals to use your RAS (Reticular Activation System)
10. Your attitude changes your reality.
11. Gratitude makes you happy.
12. Don’t compare yourself to others.
13. 80-90% of what you fear will never happen.
14. Nothing is too serious.
15. Use notebook and write everything down.
16. Experience = opportunity
17. Reading is the fuel to success
18. Money is debt. Investment Debt is wealth.
19. If you don’t have a budget, you are broke.
20. If you don’t plan your time, your time is wasted.

Social relationships brings happiness and money brings happiness.

How much money you need to match the happiness friends bring?

$121,000 extra a year according to the Journal of Socio-Economics.

Banjamin Bloom’s research: “After 40 years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

Talents and gifts are a myth.