Overconfidence while investing is one big problem while people invest. Even worse is a half baked understanding of what the masters have said. Let us take just 2 examples…from the big man – Warren Buffet himself. 1. Diversification is for mediocre people: If you do not know what you are doing, you need to diversify. [...]
Surely you have heard this one before – Money Makes the Mare Go. So used to say our teacher in school. Let us see the Indian cricket team currently playing in Sri Lanka. The top players like Dhoni, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer get paid a couple of crores a year for playing cricket for India. However [...]
When Jagadguru Shankaracharya was asked why are you calling yourself a Jagadguru? Are you a guru to the world? He said, no the correct interpretation of Jagadguru is the Jagad is my guru! It is really true. When you start teaching / try to teach you realise that there is a lot of learning. One [...]
Recently met an old friend after a long time. He reminded me of an incident about 14 years back. This post is not about nostalgia…it is about building expectations. (the year 1996 to be precise) You must have heard in many lectures or read in some philosophy books that building expectations is the worst thing [...]
not sure whether to call this a post… but if you are trying all kinds of fat reducing techniques right from diet fads, crash diets, water diets…or cycling, swimming, running, jumping, mountaineering,….well you can run the Mumbai (Standard Chartered Bank, Procam) marathon. do not know how to register? well here is the link. Could not [...]
For all those people who love eating out, and eating proceesed foods, there is a website to visit! Funny how we think of healthy living – and believe doctors (and the process food industry) who tell us that wheat bread, wheat pasta, …are all good for us. Why they even tell us that coconut oil [...]