Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #46 : The Arms Race.

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This chapter reminds us to avoid the Arms Race. This advice is particularly relevant in Singapore. The biggest arms race in Singapor...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Why do engineers get so little credit for building massive wealth ?

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Ok, so you guys probably know that I've spent the greater part of the week fending off trolls after my commentary appeared on Chanel...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Information on the next Retirement Masterclass Preview

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I teach an Early Retirement Masterclass course. More detailed information can be found here:  https://www.drwealth.com/ermintro/      ...
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The Art of the Good Life #45 : If you run your own race, you can't lose.

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This chapter of the book cuts pretty close to the bone. For the past thousands of years, the work of humanity has evolved from that of ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Early Retirement Masterclass

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I teach an Early Retirement Masterclass course. More detailed information can be found here:  https://www.drwealth.com/ermintro/        ...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Making your retirement safer with a "bear trap" account.

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Blog reader with the "Unkown" moniker brought up an important point about the weaknesses of using computer models to simulate t...
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Early Retirement Scenarios

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Thanks to the efforts of BIGS contributor and venture capitalist Lim Der Shing, we now have a decent simulation tool to track what happe...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #44 : Cargo Cults

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During World War II, natives living  in the islands involved in the War of the Pacific saw soldiers call upon metallic birds which flew p...
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Races of Wealth Accumulation : The Dwarf, Elf and Orc

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Sarah Stanley has continued the good work of her late father Thomas Stanley and updated The Millionaire Next Door into a new book The Next...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Personal Update : Financial Bloggers are human beings too !

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This might seem counter-intuitive to some readers but financial bloggers are human beings as well.  Following LP's leadership ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

How long do you need to endure when faced with a market downturn ?

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Part of the work of being a trainer is that I am relatively free to pursue some research to improve on my training materials so I got ba...
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Sunday, October 07, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #43 : The Just World Fallacy

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This chapter serves to remind us that the world is amoral and that thinking that morality will win out in the end is a fallacy. The auth...
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Friday, October 05, 2018

How to start a war in the financial blogosphere.

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The major fracas going on in the financial blogosphere right now started this week when Suze Orman told the Internet why she hates the F...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #42 : The Illusion of Changing the World

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The second installation of "The Illusion of Changing the World" argues that you should not try to take yourself too seriously ...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Where to go if you quit Singapore ?

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One of the exercises in the recent workshop I ran was a simulation exercise to close off Day 1. Workshop participants are invited to form ...
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Friday, September 28, 2018

Personal Update - Just Crossed the Rubicon !

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After the high of completing my first workshop, I was confronted with another major dilemma in my life. A company that has been intere...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #41 : The Illusion of Changing the World - The Great Men Theory

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Can we really change the world ? This chapter tells us not to subscribe to the "Great Men" theory. It is very tempting to be...
Monday, September 24, 2018

I am a workshop trainer now. Hear me roar !

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During the past 2 days, I started on my new life as a Financial Workshop Trainer. Under the guidance of Dr Wealth, I was able to craft a...