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Let curiosity drive your efforts
I have always maintained that the biggest challenge today for investors is to be able to filter out noise. This piece discusses letting your curiosity drive your efforts towards creativity.
The creative process seems to begin with simple awareness, which is not so simple to practice, partly because it’s easy to get swamped with noise. In this thing of ours (investing), there is a seemingly endless flood of news and analysis. “Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have limited bandwidth,” Rubin writes, “we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.”
Give careful thought to what you give your attention to. Push up the quality of your intake.
Rubin suggests “submerging yourself in the canon of great works.” (What makes the canon of “great” works he leaves rather undefined). Read classic books instead of the news, for example. Watch iconic films. Listen to the most influential music. Or in our case, study great companies.
Rubin says even if you do this for one year, at the end of that year, you’ll have “a more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness.” Let curiosity be your guide, “stoked by a hunger to… learn, to be fascinated and surprised on a continual basis.”
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Slow breathing has one more benefit
Pranayam, the ancient yogic practice of the breath has many benefits that today’s scientists are finding out. Here is an article from BBC Future which discusses slowing down Alzheimer’s disease as one of the benefits.
The benefits of breathing exercises – sometimes called "breathwork" – have been recognised for millennia. In more recent decades, scientific studies seem to support what people in many cultures, particularly in Asia, have long practiced: that deliberate breathing may help to improve a variety of health conditions, including hypertension, stress, anxiety, and even chronic pain.
"Slow-paced breathing might have benefits not only for emotional well-being – but also for improving biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease."
The researchers aren't sure why, exactly, this might be. But one hypothesis is that slow, deliberate breathing may mimic some of the benefits of deep sleep, which research has found might clear neurotoxic waste products from the brain and nervous system at a faster rate. The build-up of these waste products seems to play a role in the development of Alzheimer's.
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