Odds versus Performance

"People dont fail,they simply quite before they learned the necessary skills to do them" - Tim Sales


Which matters the most - odds or performance? Odds dont matter when performance is invovled. Your odds of success will certainly be greater if you've learned and practiced the necessary skills to perform successfully.

Great Quote on Paradigm Shift

"All truth passes through three stages:

First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Socrates, Plato, Palladio, Da Vinci, Copernicus, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Jørn Utzon, I.M. Pei, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, and....

Theory of Exponential Growth

Us humans don't realize the practicality of certain issues until its too late as things often accelerate exponentially in severity and effects just slightly before its tipping point, whether its about Climate Crisis, Peak Oil, Gold Price, Financial Crisis, Personal Health, Species Extinctions, Fresh Water Shortage, etc; we've always failed to comprehend the power of Exponential Growth that defines the order of our Universe. This clip explains really well, serving as an reminder for us to simply 'Start before its too late' - ignorance is a sin.

Make Sense !

"The best financial assets for a person to own would be those over which he has peculiar knowledge of expertise." - Randal J. Kirk, a Pharmaceutical tycoon

But always learn to know what you need to learn, even though you don't want to learn it.

Truth of Capitalism: How a Billionaire pays less income tax % than you

Full article:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/01/01/88600/index.htm

Unrealized capital gains:
http://www.ctj.org/hid_ent/part-2/part2-2.htm

'5% of world's population controls over 95% of world's wealth'