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Why pick stocks when you can buy ETFs

Data has shown that most investors (professional or not) do not beat the market and it also means that the simple act of buying an index ETF would do better than majority of the investors. Why then, we still have many...

January 4, 2022| CYH Read More

I forgot how to dream

I have been a manager all these years when all along I thought I was a leader. The realisation came when I discovered I lacked vision. As Michael Hyatt said in his book, The Vision Driven Leader, spelt out the...

December 30, 2021| CYH Read More

The Vision Grid

Excerpt from The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt In Quadrant 1 (abstract, implicit), the leader has a vague idea of what he wants the future to look like. It’s more of a hunch, maybe wishful thinking. Since the...

December 29, 2021| Business, Founder, Matrix Read More

10 Maxims on How to Live

We are about to go into 2022 and I thought sharing some of these nuggets of wisdom from Derek Sivers can inspire you to live a great year ahead. 1. If it’s not important, never do it. If it’s important, do it every...

December 27, 2021| CYH Read More

2022 a via negativa year

2022: do it differently. Most resolutions are additive. Instead of I want to do this or that, flip it around and do less undesirables. Be subtractive. Drink or smoke less. Eat less junk food. Reduce the frequency of...

December 26, 2021| CYH Read More

Win by not losing

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) For something to succeed, everything needs to go right. For something to fail, only one thing needs to go wrong. Don’t try to be more right. Just be less wrong. Avoiding...

December 26, 2021| Inversion, Life, Success Read More

Shallow and deep happy

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) Shallow happy is having a donut.Deep happy is having a fit body. Shallow happy is what you want now.Deep happy is what you want most. Shallow happy serves the present.Deep...

December 26, 2021| Life Read More

Choose good problems to solve

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) Since you can’t avoid problems, just find good problems. Happiness isn’t everlasting tranquility. Happiness is solving good problems....

December 25, 2021| Life, Success Read More

Overcome the pain to get what you want

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) Everything good comes from some kind of pain. Muscle fatigue makes you healthy and strong. The pain of practice leads to mastery. Difficult conversations save your...

December 24, 2021| Inversion, Life, Success Read More

NFT is crucial to the metaverse

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) boomed in 2021 and sales totalled about $2.5 billion by the first half of this year. The interest in NFT has been increasing and Google Trends showed the search term popularity is at its all...

December 22, 2021| CYH Read More

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