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Tag: Life/Career Advice

Before You Fly The Nest: Advice for kids heading to college

ET contributor Brent Donnelly went out and asked some people he respects what advice they would give kids heading off to college. Here's what he found…
Brent Donnelly August 5, 2022
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How to Succeed as a Sell Side Trader

ET contributor Brent Donnelly has some advice that's ostensibly for sell-side traders, but is actually for everyone in markets. And everyone who isn't…
Brent Donnelly June 27, 2022
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Money Can Buy Happiness (in variable and diminishing quantities)

What does your money/happiness curve look like? Is it curved or linear? Does it flatline somewhere? If so, where? There's the game of trading and the…
Brent Donnelly April 6, 2022
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25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life

The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price. Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us craft a…
Luke Burgis December 13, 2021
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Starry Eyes and Starry Skies

The student loan crisis is a Big Deal. And it is only a part of a Bigger Deal: the Myth of College. This issue will be front-and-center in the upcom…
Rusty Guinn April 29, 2019
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The Ministry of Rites and the Compassionate Man

"Oh, little Jimmy is going to 20-Years-Ago-This-Was-A-Second-Rate-University? I hear really good things about that school. Congratulations!" "Thanks!…
Ben Hunt March 17, 2019
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In Praise of Work

The problem isn't that we derive too much of our worth and value from work. The problem is that our jobs are becoming increasingly abstracted from wor…
Rusty Guinn March 1, 2019
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We Had The Same Crazy Idea

It is a frustrating truth that good - even great - investors rarely know exactly what it is that makes them good. And so the inevitable guilty pleasur…
Rusty Guinn December 18, 2018
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Oh, hell, Martha, go ahead and burn yourself if you want to.

I can't advise you on the Answers. I won't advise you on the Answers. But I will advise you on the Process. Because that's what we do for our fellow p…
Ben Hunt October 29, 2018
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Investment Diligence and the Cornelius Effect

Nobody likes to admit it, but the investment industry hires and invests with the smartest-seeming people that seem sufficiently likable. And it doesn'…
Rusty Guinn October 18, 2018
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Dogs, Dog Food, and the Curse of Some Talent

The thing is, Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. You came close but you never made it. And if you were go…
Ben Hunt October 14, 2018
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Mental Toughness!

Investing requires mental toughness, but it doesn’t require us to pretend that we — or our colleagues — are invincible. More often, it instead r…
Rusty Guinn June 8, 2018
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Too Clever By Half

The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by half…
Ben Hunt February 5, 2018
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Jesse After His Chili P Phase

Chili P is My Signature: Things that Don’t Matter #5

The second moral license from a wise emphasis on passive investing is spending inordinate amounts of time on tilts, trades and tactical ideas that wil…
Rusty Guinn June 9, 2017
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You Had One Job

Every dog needs a job, and every investment does, too. No single dog can be all things to all people, and neither can a single investment. Nor can any…
Ben Hunt November 3, 2016
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