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What NO means, in the final analysis, is always "If you continue to do that, something you do not like will happen to you." Otherwise it means nothing. Or , worse, it means another nonsensical nothing muttered by ignorable adults." Or, worse still, it means, "all adults are ineffectual and weak."

Jordan B. Peterson

If a NO it's not a NO you cannot educate, you have a miserable life. If a NO is not obeyed and there is no consequence as Jordan Peterson says it's a joke.

When my now-adult daughter was a child, another child once hit her with a metal toy truck. I watched that same child, one year later, viciously push his younger sister backwards over a glass surface coffee table. His mother picked him up, immediately afterward (but not her frightened daughter), and told him in a hushed tones not to do such things, while she patted him comfortingly in a manner clearly indicative of approval. She was out to produce a little god emperor of the Universe. That's the unstated goal of many a mother, including many who consider themselves advocates for full gender equality. Such women will object vociferously to any command uttered by an adult male, but will trot off in seconds to make their progeny a peanut-butter sandwich if he demanda it while immersed self-importantly in a video game.

James Peterson, Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.

I have seen many parents almost slaves of their children.

I know that it's very difficult to educate when you have money. To me the origin of all evil and problems is the lack of limits, of boundaries, of rules. If there is no limits the children will be completely lost.

Someone showed me a book called An Educated Dog is a Happy Dog

I think it's the same for kids. Institute some rule, one rule one limit. That is enough to change everything.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

I have a dog and of dogs are not like people. however all the things that started in a certain way became an habit and now are routine. He knows what to expect and is very happy i think!

The bad habits he has now it's almost impossible to change.

i guess for a dog it's difficult to start bad and then change.

he does't eat human food from day one, now he doesn't circle the table while we eat
he is not allowed to enter the living room, now he stays outside even when i am not at home
he does his poop in a garden from day one and now he never poops in the walkway
he only eats at daybreak and he is not eager for food all day
it's illegal but i never put a leash in the dog. now he just walks besides me everywhere

So for a dog or at least my dog it's very important what you do in the first days. Start well is my advice.

for me i think all the bad habits i have are a result of illness and lack of goals. as soon as i have a difficult goal in sports or in my job everything goes in to place. everything. i need to sleep more, i need tonot drink wine in the week days, diet, i get up before 6 am, i don't check email as often, cold showers etc...

be busy and everything gets in place!

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

Bo Bennett

To me the best way to do a resume is not to say that i am good in A, B &C

Is to show that I was able to go from A to B, to grow to improve to fight to be a better person. I can grow that is a good resume for me is someone that i know that can learn to be better.

I read this and i get the feeling as Yuval Noah Hariri mentioned in his great book Homo Deus, that the economic value of man will go down very dramatically!

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The following points are taken from Udo Gollub, the CEO of 17 Minute Languages Facebook post...

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world
Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.
Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.
So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver's licence and will never own a car.
It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 6 million miles (10 million km). That will save a million lives each year.
Most car companies will probably become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.
Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla.
Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.
Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.
Electric cars will become mainstream about 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact.
Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. Energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that can't last. Technology will take care of that strategy.
With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter (@ 0.25 cents). We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.
Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.
It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medical analysis, nearly for free. Goodbye, medical establishment.
3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster. All major shoe companies have already started 3D printing shoes.
Some spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to have in the past.
At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home.
In China, they already 3D printed and built a complete 6-storey office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.
Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: "in the future, do you think we will have that?" and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner?
If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st century.
Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.
Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all day on their fields.
Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal, is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don't need that space anymore. There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labelled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).
There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you're in. By 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions, if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they're telling the truth and when they're not.
Bitcoin may even become the default reserve currency ... Of the world!
Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase per year. So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100.
Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. By 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education.
Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child needs to learn at school in First World countries. There have already been releases of software in Indonesia and soon there will be releases in Arabic, Suaheli and Chinese this summer. I can see enormous potential if we give the English app for free, so that children in Africa and everywhere else can become fluent in English and that could happen within half a year.

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Why doesn’t fund management conform to the rules of professional sports, where athletes such as Cristiano Ronaldo or Roger Federer consistently outperform their rivals? One reason could be that successful managers attract more clients, and the size of their fund grows. So they have to expand the number of stocks they buy, diluting their best ideas. As the fund grows larger, it looks more likely the overall market, and runs into the iron law of costs.

Buttonwood, The Economist 24^th June

We know that in the financial markets and Fund management there is for sure short term persistence or momentum. However long term persistence is non existent. In sports it's not only Cristiano Ronaldo, Federer and Froome that show above average quality year in and year out. In Chess usually the highest rankling playear almost always wins.

In Fund management The Economist has this to offer

Active fund management may have more of a role to play in other places: emerging markets, for example, where information about the prospects of individual companies is not so widely available...

In my experience there is two ways to do consistently well, to have a better mouse trap (very difficult but possible) there are companies/Managers that invest more in R &D and have secrets and there are spaces where the information is difficult to get (There is no Bloomberg with everything easily available) and the true specialist that has the database that no one has can demonstrate a persistent advantage. (Emerging Markets, small cap's , and even in the Bond world we see some persistence......

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

John D. Rockefeller

From MJ de Marco book

Nothing overcomes poor human experiences!
You could own the best hotel in the world located on the best beach in California, but if customers are treated like inconveniences and requests go unfulfilled, they won't return.

How do you get to have a wonderful service? No company can pay a lot because people want good service but decent prices so how do you create a wonderful service without paying huge amounts of money.

you can do 3 things

a)Praise and pay for outstanding service and let all the company to know 1 outstanding story every month. pay & praise. kind of employee of the month in the MacDonalds

b)People are what they are, if there is two or 3 events with an employee just let him go. there are employees with people skills and ones that don't have. just clean the house every month

c)Treat your costumers and your employees in the same way. decently. to be an asshole with your employees and very nice with the clients does't work.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

What online technology does for business schools is very substantially expand their market to people who don’t take time out from their career to come back to business school

Rick Levin CEO of Coursera

I already took a online course in Coursera at The University of San Diego, it's free you only pay the diploma if you want one. One of the perks of online education is that you learn from the best teachers in the world and if you were attending a traditional University you have the local teacher not the best in the world.

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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health

Carl Gustav Jung

If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths 1)Become the best in one specific thing. 2)Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

The first strategy is difficult to the point of near impossibility…….

Scott Adams

PS in order to be very good in any field there is only one way. Concentrate and don’t start from zero every two years when you change passion and start again in a new direction.

Focus + time = Excellence

and don't forget you only improve when you do difficult things.

It’s always the hard part that creates value

Seth Godin

Go long substance and short status

Pieter Thiel

PS couldn’t agree more. Forget the diploma and go for it. Start working, start doing , learn online, read, try, don’t wait for the diploma to get a job. If the diploma is from Harvard it might pay back even if you spend your time parting !

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather
(1908 - 1976)

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Jean de La Fontaine
French poet (1621 - 1695)

1.the very definition of a high standard of living: diverse consumption, simplified production. Make one thing, use lots.

Matt Ridley, "The Rational Optimist"

2.Don't go to hospitals unless you broke a leg!

For example, side effects from medications given in hospitals kill an estimated 106,000 Americans every year................Hospitals are dangerous places, and that's not counting the estimated 99,000 deaths each year due to hospital-acquired infections.

Michael Greger, MD

3.EM are in trouble because they are not driving Inovation and Technology

Historically, a strengthening US dollar has been bad news for emerging markets; just think of the Asian crisis of 1997. And rising US long rates do not exactly help; consider the taper tantrum of 2013. Put them together then, and throw the prospect of greater trade protectionism into the mix, and the current global environment should be absolutely toxic for emerging market assets.

Joyce Poon, Gave kal

4.Fade the Inflation scare

Market-based measures of inflation expectations have turned higher, as commodity prices have bottomed & additional fiscal stimulus appears possible (with the U.S. leading the way). As we’ve noted previously, with U.S. wages rising, but still restrained, there’s little chance of runaway domestic inflation taking hold. But that does not preclude an inflation scare. We would fade such a scare in the market.

Anthony, Strategas

5.Why there will be no inflation?

Volkswagen AG reached a landmark agreement with workers to cut as many as 30,000 jobs globally and save 3.7 billion euros ($3.9 billion) in expenses as the company tries to claw back from the emissions-cheating scandal and invest in electric vehicles.

Bloomberg

6.Soft skills are the way to go

“On average, by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today, according to our respondents. Overall, social skills—such as persuasion, emotional intelligence and teaching others—will be in higher demand across industries than narrow technical skills, such as programming or equipment operation and control. In essence, technical skills will need to be supplemented with strong social and collaboration skills.”

World Economic Forum

Smart People go to College, but college doesn’t make people smart.

A Gary Shilling

This is completely true but since employers believe that---->

if you have a College degree from a good Institution this guy is smart

you should do all you can to get a stamp from a good school !

However if you are not very smart and since College does not turn you into a very smart person (as Gary Shilling rightly points out) you will get a job because you have the stamp but once you are inside a company you are going to have problems. It's going to be clear that you are what you are.

what should you do if you are not one of the smart people in the world. If you work hard and diligently you will surpass many smart people than you! I know this is true.

To want to win is 90% of the success.

this is the best phrase ever

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be

Paul Arden

“So much of what ails people has to do with diet and exercise,”

Gary Johnson

From By Robert Bergland

If the presidential race were a true battle of the fittest, though, Johnson would be on top. While his Republican and Democratic opponents have faced questions about their health, Johnson’s fitness resume is likely only matched by a few people on the planet. He’s completed four Ironman triathlons, including an impressive 10:39 in 1999, averaging better than 20 mph for the 112-mile bike leg. In running shoes he has completed 17 marathons (best of 2:47). And as of this year, only 416 people have equaled him in scaling all of the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on all seven continents, including Everest. But, outside of perhaps skiing near his home in Taos, his favorite activity is biking.

He did finish one Transportugal bike race! this is a serious athlete with good head. I don't care if he doesn't know what is Aleppo! Ronald Reagan for sure never eared about Aleppo or Syria and was one of the best ever.

To me for very important jobs you need to know 3 things:

a)To know the difference from good and bad
b)To know that the number of hours and effort one puts up makes a real difference
c)To set up big ambitious goals

i guess Gary Johnson has definitely the bottom 2 traits and possible someone who engages in serious sport is a good person and can distinguish the good and the bad.

I loved this quote! I would do the same

So, after completing the Tour Divide Race, two runs for president, and a slew of other feats of strength, what would Johnson most want to do if he had a day to himself?
“It would be a bicycle ride, probably mountain biking or road biking,” he says.

Image result for governor gary johnson on bike

But do the facts bear out this notion that education is the elixir of economic growth? Is there any evidence that it was education that drove countries to prosperity, or vice versa? Alison Wolf examined the data in exhaustive detail in her book Does Education Matter?, and concluded that the answer is a surprising "no".

Matt Ridley, the Evolution of Everything

The evidence shows that for an individual Education pays big time. If you have more degrees you get more money. Employers see the degrees as evidence that you are a docile future employee.

For countries the bet on more education & more degrees doesn't work? why?

i don't know but i guess people with degrees don't have more productivity vs....
what they learn doesn't work in practice
College don't make you a better person
and finally many jobs are destined to holders of high degrees and normal people could do them easily and that is a waste of money &time.

From Bryan Caplan Blog

I've been in school for the last 35 years - 21 years as a student, the rest as a professor. As a result, the Real World is almost completely foreign to me. I don't know how to do much of anything. While I had a few menial jobs in my teens, my first-hand knowledge of the world of work beyond the ivory tower is roughly zero.

I'm not alone. Most professors' experience is almost as narrow as mine. If you want to succeed in academia, the Real World is a distraction. I have a dream job for life because I excelled in my coursework year after year, won admission to prestigious schools, and published a couple dozen articles for other professors to read. That's what it takes - and that's all it takes.

Considering how studiously I've ignored the Real World, you might think that the Real World would return the favor by ignoring me. But it doesn't! I've influenced the Real World careers of thousands of students. How? With grades. At the end of every semester, I test my students to see how well they understand my courses, and grade them from A to F. Other professors do the same. And remarkably, employers care about our ivory tower judgments. Students with lots of A's finish and get pleasant, high-paid jobs. Students with a lots of F's don't finish and get unpleasant, low-paid jobs. If that.

.............................................

According to the signaling model, employers reward educational success because of what it shows ("signals") about the student. Good students tend to be smart, hard-working, and conformist - three crucial traits for almost any job. When a student excels in school, then, employers correctly infer that he's likely to be a good worker. What precisely did he study? What did he learn how to do? Mere details. As long as you were a good student, employers surmise that you'll quickly learn what you need to know on the job.

If you take a degree in Latin that does not matter at all if you are going to be a better lawyer/accountant or Banker why pay more to a college student with a degree vs person without a degree?

because the college degree is a signal. yes if this guy was able to take a boring degree in Latin he certainly can learn to do this job.

Let's hire someone with good marks and a degree in whatever.

Bryan Caplan argues with some reason that education does not matter at all to the way you are going to do your job it's only going to raise the salary for people with a degree and lower for the people without a degree. It's a waste of time for the society because people spend a lot of money and time in Colleges learning nothing useful for the way they will work in the future.

why not close the higher education system?

This year, I decided to do something radical that I hadn’t done for almost a decade. I took a proper holiday. I disconnected myself from work altogether. I didn’t open any work messages. I spent time reading, walking, looking at the sea — and sometimes getting into it — while I thought about not much at all. When I returned to work and reacquainted myself with email, it was perfectly straightforward. I deleted almost all of them unread, responding only to the things that looked interesting. Far from feeling overwhelmed, I felt a certain excitement in the sudden immersion in work. It was a new-shoes and sharp-pencil sort of feeling that used to go with the beginning of a school term.

Over the past week it has started to dawn on me that my radical action was not radical at all. I was merely following the latest fashion.

Lucy Kellaway, FT

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18e67e2e-63b3-11e6-8310-ecf0bddad227.html#axzz4IjqIxAA6

I have noticed during my career that the really important people are not always online and do one thing with 100% focus. The people that multitask sometimes don’t go very far ahead. Perhaps it’s a wrong impression but it’s my experience.

People that multitask are sacrificing Focus for some surprise. It's a big cost.

“They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, ‘Is there another way?”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“Rule #1: You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is rule number one. It is the only rule. This may sound absurdly simple, but most people have no idea how profound this rule is. Most people struggle financially because they do not know the difference between an asset and a liability. “Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets, “ said rich dad.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

yes when you start working don't live with everything you can. If you have money to buy a car don't buy the car. Save the money & buy asset's. wait 10 years for the car

when you are in your 20's & 30's don't spend it all, don't buy the house that you need, wait and you will have a better house later.

what do you do with the saved money? buy asset's

what are asset's?

houses to rent
mutual funds
stock's
things that you can rent

what are liabilities. Things that next year are probably worth less and you pay to maintain them every year

a second home
a car
a motorbike
a boat

“An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

what is the purpose of all of this? hopefully one day you make a bit from your work and you make as much from your asset's. If you have a bit of luck (invest during a Bull market) one day you could live only from your asset's. the rat race would be over!

“The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

The Four Burners Theory: The Downside of Work-Life Balance

by James Clear
Read this on JamesClear.com

There is a concept known as The Four Burners Theory. Here’s how it was first explained to me:

Imagine that your life is represented by a stove with four burners on it. Each burner symbolizes one major quadrant of your life.

1. The first burner represents your family.

2. The second burner is your friends.

3. The third burner is your health.

4. The fourth burner is your work.

The Four Burners Theory says that "in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two." [1]

This is obviously true, if you are one of the best in the world in anything you leave some (many) areas of your life behind.

You can't do the 4 successfully at the same time. My advice is to concentrate when you work you work really hard and leave behind the other 3 a bit, when you do sports do it for real. when you are with your family & kids don't multitask.

that is my strategy, when i am doing something i concentrate everything on that area we don't have time do all at the same time.

more about the same:

http://thoughtmeme.blogspot.pt/2014/02/forget-about-balanced-life.html

Never ever say NO! and then after some discussion it's yes

An Educated Dog is a happy Dog

I have a DOG

The best resume!

So if you study law, stop immediately

The following points are taken from Udo Gollub, the CEO of 17 Minute Languages Facebook post...

Are there places where the best always(almost) win!

Spectacular product features can’t overcome poor service

Yes it's free !

Francisco Carneiro, congratulations!

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health

If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning.....................

True ideias !

Some Thoughts for the weekend

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be

This is the Man ! Not Trump or Hillary

Too much Education

The case Against Education

Important people don't multitask

work spend, work more spend more, etc....Yes you can do better than this

Balanced life ? not possible

The Four Burners Theory: The Downside of Work-Life Balance

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