Despite what we think we know about valuation and how stocks behave, the real world often does not follow the same logic. Markets tend to be irrational and what takes place are mostly driven by the actions and responses of humans. Knowing how to tell this difference is probably one of the most underrated and unspoken skill in this business.

"Nobody checks on a man to see if he’s okay, they check to see if he is still useful."

When you have been brought up most of your life learning how to game the system, the metric for success becomes defined as beating someone rather than curating the life you actually want.

"Don’t use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training." - CS Lewis

Anyone telling you to follow your passion is already rich. No one grows up thinking: "I'm passionate about tax law", but the best tax lawyers fly private jets and have a much broader selection of mates than they deserve.

According to aero-propulsion engineering, most of a plane's fuel is burned when it is taxi-ing and taking off, not when cruising in mid air. Any new venture needs to overcome an initial resistance in order to achieve a breakthrough.

Education teaches us to be compliant, older people tend to bring up unheathy comparisons, and learning to stay humble.

“The good news is that the Italians make the pasta and the Swiss make the watches. But if we stop world trade, and the Swiss have to their own pasta, and the Italians have to make their own watches, then people in both countries, arguably, will be a little worse off.” - Howard Marks

The importance of being "pigs", the most common recipe of an average life, cutting the noise to get things done, wisdom from Pooh bear and Michael Caine.

“Sorry, no more executive roles after your fifties.”