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Classes of Assets
I saw a post that listed 15 assets and one positive feature of each. One can quibble about aspects of it but it is interesting starting point for a discussion with your kids.
1 Stocks = Compound wealth
2 ETFs = Simple investing
3 Land = Long-term appreciation
4 Business = Financial leverage
5 Skills – Lifetime income
6 Books = Better decisions
7 Digital products = Passive income
8 Rental property = Cash flow
9 Brand = Trust and influence
10 Health = Long-term performance
11 Audience = Opportunity access
12 Networking = Hidden wealth
13 Technology = Faster productivity
14 Knowledge = Competitive advantage
15 Time = Greatest asset
Gold Is Repeating Its 1973 Correction Almost Exactly. If It Completes, Gold Hits $8,000 by December
An interesting comparison of gold price chart from 1973 with 2026.
Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G58a9j6KT9k
Catherine Austin-Fitts – Do This
Where we are headed and one thing we can do about it.
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Frank, Jung and Watts
(Tom: The following are wise words yet despite their wisdom, these three distinguished gentlemen did not adequately pursue the source of man’s pain to arrive at the ultimate resolution, the discovery of and technique to erase the reactive mind, the hidden source of what ails man. To discover this for yourself, get a copy of Dianetics and read it. Discover the truth for yourself.)
From a Collective Evolution post on Facebook:
There is a strange moment that happens as you grow older.
One day, you realize your life isn’t changing because you’re making better decisions.
It’s changing because you’re repeating the same unconscious ones.
The same arguments.
The same fears.
The same habits.
The same invisible story about who you are.
You promise yourself that next year will be different.
It rarely is.
Here’s the unsettling part.
Nearly a century ago, three of the most influential thinkers of the modern era—Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and Alan Watts—approached this mystery from completely different directions.
One survived Nazi concentration camps.
One spent his life exploring the unconscious mind.
One translated Eastern philosophy for the Western world.
Different cultures.
Different professions.
Different beliefs.
Yet they kept arriving at remarkably similar conclusions.
Not about success.
Not about happiness.
But about the hidden psychological traps that quietly steal an entire lifetime.
Most people don’t ignore these lessons because they’re difficult.
They ignore them because accepting them would require becoming someone entirely different.
Here are the five principles they all seemed to discover.
Rule 1: Stop Searching for Happiness. Search for Meaning.
Modern culture has convinced us that happiness is the goal.
Frankl believed the opposite.
People can survive astonishing suffering if they know why they’re suffering.
Without meaning, even comfort begins to feel unbearable.
Jung observed that many psychological disorders weren’t simply illnesses—they were crises of meaning.
Watts argued that chasing happiness is like trying to smooth water with your hand.
The harder you chase it, the further it slips away.
This explains a strange paradox of modern life.
Never before have people had so much convenience.
Never before have so many reported feeling empty.
Perhaps the problem isn’t that life has become harder.
Perhaps we’ve mistaken pleasure for purpose.
Meaning often arrives disguised as responsibility.
Rule 2: Everything You Refuse to Face Eventually Controls You
Most people think avoidance protects them.
Psychology says the opposite.
Jung famously argued that what remains unconscious doesn’t disappear—it shapes your life from behind the curtain.
Frankl saw people imprisoned physically while remaining inwardly free.
Others lived in freedom while becoming prisoners of fear.
Watts repeatedly warned that resisting reality creates suffering beyond the original pain.
The emotion you suppress.
The conversation you postpone.
The grief you never process.
The insecurity you hide beneath achievement.
None of it vanishes.
It simply changes form.
Anxiety.
Burnout.
Perfectionism.
Control.
The monster isn’t under the bed.
It’s inside the room you’ve refused to enter.
Rule 3: Your Identity Is More Flexible Than You Think
One of the most dangerous sentences in the English language is:
“This is just who I am.”
It sounds like self-acceptance.
Often, it’s surrender.
Jung believed the self isn’t fixed.
It’s continually unfolding through a lifelong process of integration.
Frankl insisted that even in the most horrific conditions, people retained one freedom:
The freedom to choose their response.
Watts challenged the idea that the isolated ego is who we truly are.
Your identity isn’t a prison.
It’s a story.
And stories can be rewritten.
The future isn’t created by discovering yourself.
It’s created by becoming someone your past couldn’t predict.
Rule 4: Life Begins to Change When You Stop Trying to Control Everything
Control feels safe.
It also becomes exhausting.
We attempt to control outcomes.
Other people.
Time.
Money.
Reputation.
Our own thoughts.
The result?
Constant tension.
Watts argued that trying to control life is like trying to hold your breath forever.
Eventually, reality wins.
Frankl distinguished between what belongs to fate and what belongs to personal choice.
Jung believed psychological maturity comes not from mastering the world, but from relating differently to uncertainty.
Ironically, resilience grows precisely where certainty ends.
You cannot control life.
But you can become the kind of person who no longer requires certainty before acting.
Rule 5: The Greatest Prison Is the One You Can’t See
The most dangerous prison rarely has walls.
It has assumptions.
That your worth depends on achievement.
That everyone is judging you.
That success guarantees fulfillment.
That comfort equals security.
These beliefs quietly shape careers, relationships, and entire identities.
Jung called for making the unconscious conscious.
Frankl encouraged people to answer life rather than demand answers from it.
Watts reminded us that many of our perceived problems exist because we’ve mistaken our thoughts for reality itself.
Most people spend decades trying to escape external circumstances.
Few realize they’re carrying the prison with them.
Freedom doesn’t begin when your environment changes.
It begins when your perception does.
The Uncomfortable Truth
People often ask what the secret to a meaningful life is.
Perhaps that’s the wrong question.
The better question is:
What illusion are you still protecting?
Frankl didn’t promise a painless life.
Jung didn’t promise a simple one.
Watts certainly didn’t promise certainty.
Instead, they pointed toward something both harder and more liberating.
Life is not something you conquer.
It is something you participate in.
The tragedy isn’t that life is short.
The tragedy is that many people never truly live it because they’re too busy defending the version of themselves they created years ago.
Every day you delay confronting that truth, the unconscious writes another page of your future.
The question is no longer whether your life will change.
It will.
The only question is whether you’ll choose the change—or wait until life chooses it for you.
Two Alternatives – One Choice
Two countries split from the same colonial body in 1965. One picked economic freedom. The other picked handouts and racial spoils. You already know how this ended.
Singapore had no oil, no farmland, no hinterland. Just a swamp and a port. Lee Kuan Yew looked at that and trusted trade, low taxes, and hard money. A meritocracy. Central planners hate what he did.
Malaysia has the world’s largest gold mine and abundant mineral and oil resources. Yet it went the other way. In 1971 Kuala Lumpur launched the New Economic Policy, a state program handing quotas, contracts, and university seats to ethnic Malays. Politicians decided who got what. A commissar fantasy dressed in liberal language.
Now let’s look at the numbers. In 1965 both places sat around $500 per capita. Today Singapore clears $84,000. Malaysia sits near $13,000. Same climate, same starting line, one sixth the result.
The Singapore dollar holds its value because the Monetary Authority of Singapore manages it against a currency basket and refuses to print its way out of trouble. The ringgit has lost roughly two thirds of its value against the Singapore dollar since 1981.
You cannot subsidize your way to wealth. You cannot redistribute what you never let people produce. Every ringgit funneled through a quota is a ringgit some bureaucrat spent on his own vision instead of a customer’s.
Malaysia bet on planners deciding outcomes. Singapore bet on people deciding for themselves. The gap between $84,000 and $13,000 is your answer.
Billionaire’s WARNING: I’m SELLING. The Crash Is Already Here!
The man who predicted the dot-com crash and the 2007 housing collapse warns that the AI bubble is the biggest in American history. Billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham reveals why it will burst, the exact strategy to protect your money, and why house prices need to fall 30%.
Jeremy Grantham is the co-founder of GMO, an institutional investment firm in Boston, and serves as the firm’s long-term investment strategist. He is also the chairman of the Grantham Foundation For the Preservation of the Environment, and co-author of “The Making of a Permabear: The Perils of Long-term Investing in a Short-term World”.
Jeremy Grantham’s comments are all his personal opinions.
He explains:
◼ Why Wall Street will never warn you when to get out of the market, and what to do instead
◼ The exact portfolio Jeremy recommends to protect your money before the crash
◼ What everyday chemicals in your food and cosmetics are doing to your fertility
◼ Why house prices need to fall 30%, and what it means for your finances
◼ Why the AI boom won’t automatically lead to higher profits, and what to buy instead
Natural Cooling
If you don’t understand natural cooling, you don’t understand architecture.
Most buildings are built the wrong way.
First we build the shape.
Then we add AC to fix it.
A glass box in the sun gets hot.
Like a greenhouse.
So we fight the heat with power.
All day. Every day.
The power bill never stops.
And if the power goes out, the building gets too hot to use.
There is a better way.
A building can cool itself.
No AC. Just air, water, plants, and the sun.
Here is how it works:
– Windcatcher: a tower on top. It catches the wind and sends cool air down.
– Solar chimney: the sun heats it. It pulls hot air up and out.
– Earth tubes: air comes in through the cool ground first. So it starts cool.
– Cool water channel: the air passes over water. Now it’s even cooler.
– Green roof and green walls: plants shade the building and cool the air.
Cool air comes in at the bottom.
Hot air goes out the top.
No machine in the middle.
This is not new.
People in old Persia did this 700 years ago.
They made desert homes much cooler. With no power at all.
What is new? Smart sensors and AI.
They watch the wind and the heat.
They open and close each part on their own.
Old ideas. New tools.
A building that needs power to stay cool is not really designed.
It’s just plugged in.
Biotonomy – Nature Based Architecture
Quote of the Day
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
Joseph Campbell – Author (1904 – 1987)
Here’s how to find your bliss: https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=37862
Doing Chores For Success
In 1938, Harvard researchers launched the most ambitious study in history by tracking the lives of 724 people, from their adolescence until their death, in order to discover what truly makes a person happy and fulfilled.
For decades, they analyzed their brains, their salaries, their relationships, and their traumas. After 85 years of data, they uncovered a surprising correlation that no one had expected.
Professional success in adulthood did not depend on IQ, nor on parental wealth, nor on school grades. One of the most powerful predictors of success was something very simple: doing household chores during childhood.
Taking out the trash or washing the dishes is not just a matter of cleanliness; it’s brain training. The study, known as the Grant Study, revealed that household tasks teach a lesson that no school can replicate: “the ethic of contribution.”
When a child has to stop playing to set the table, they learn that the world does not revolve around them. They understand that they are part of an ecosystem and that their effort is necessary for the group to function well.
The researchers found that children who participated in chores became adults who:
– know how to recognize what needs to be done and do it without being asked (initiative);
– feel more empathy for others’ work;
– manage frustration and delayed gratification better.
In the era of “helicopter parenting,” where we prevent children from getting bored or working, Harvard warns us that by protecting them from boring tasks, we are stripping them of the foundations of their future professional competence.
If you want your child to become a fulfilled adult, don’t buy them more educational toys. Give them a broom.
Source: Harvard Study of Adult Development (Grant Study) and Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult).
Universo Sorprendente.