Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Temple Of Solomon
Free Seminar I went to a very interesting seminar a couple of weeks ago. It was a free seminar, the kind of seminar where they advertise in the newspaper, you show up and they give you a two-hour pitch that sounds fantastic and then they try to close you at the end for some kind […]
Non Normal Investments and Wealth Planning
Investment Documentary I watched this pretty cool documentary the other night on non-mainstream investments. It started off by saying the two most common investments be will make is their home and the stock market. For most people their biggest investment is going to be their home. This already indicates that most people when they […]
S Curve Madness and Kung Fu Brain Training
Math Video The other day I watched this very interesting introductory math training video that was in a series of videos. It was based on I think high school or college algebra. I watched it kind of for nostalgia reasons. I enjoy math very much and I haven’t studied math in a long time. […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Relationship Success
Rich Old Couple I met this interesting couple couple of weeks ago. They’re a very older couple very very wealthy there were several hundred million dollars. When I, before I met them, I had this kind of assumption the man was the successful business person and the wife more or less spousal support that […]
Custom Made Life
Small Part Needed The other day I was in my house trying to build this structure. I was putting the structure together from smaller parts that weren’t really made to be put together this way, but I knew I was going to be a perfect structure. The only problem was I needed this one […]
Personal Money Energy Symbol
Free Seminar A couple of weeks ago I went to this free seminar. It was at this local Learning Center. A community center type of place where they have a lot of community-based organizations> They also kind of hire out these rooms from time to time to individuals who want to teach things for […]
Brainless Human Syndrome
Why Most Of Us Can’t Think Once upon a time a very timid fellow decides to take an ocean cruise. He was very worried, as he’d never been out on the ocean. After the first couple days, he felt brave enough to venture out on the deck. But as luck would have it, as soon […]
Equilibrium Paradox
How Much Do You Need? Most of us have a curious belief about some big thing that we want. This can either be a thing, a certain amount of money, or even a long range goal. The belief that we hold about this is that once we get that “thing,” whatever it happens to be, […]