Michael Lewis' Tips to Keep Your Mind Sharp
We all know Michael Lewis as the author of best-selling books such as "Liar's Poker" and "The Big Short," books that helped us understand the workings of Wall Street and glean into the lives of traders and investment bankers. Knowing the stress of a job in finance all too well, Michael Lewis has again come to the rescue with tips on how to relieve anxiety and maintain that killer instinct to keep making millions.
Forget transcendental meditation. Michael Lewis recommends sitting on a fat kid:
Fat kids aren’t as thick on the ground in Manhattan since the soda ban was proposed so you might need to get driven to a Jersey suburb to locate one.
A lot of people think that sitting on fat kids is just a mean thing done only by high school bullies,” says one hedge-fund trader -- who, like many extremely successful hedge-fund managers, struggled with his appetites when he was himself a child. “That totally misses the point of sitting on a fat kid. The act itself -- of hurling a little fat kid to the ground and using him as a human stool -- is terribly relaxing. And it’s value neutral, especially after the kid stops screaming. Once you realize that you can literally sit on your own past, and subdue it, you cease to worry about whatever it is you have just done with other people’s money.
He also recommends "identifying people who have no hope in life, and use their distress to soothe your own" and hiring a court jester.
Read the rest of his tips and let me know if any of these work for you.
He makes a lot of effort to be funny (I'm assuming), but for whatever reason, it's not. It's kind of a stupid article tbh.
Fantastic, #SB4U
Thanks for posting. Is meditation value neutral ? Yes. Does it make any difference that loads of Goldman shitheads do TM it too ? No.
Like the idea of a court jester. +1.
"He also recommends "identifying people who have no hope in life, and use their distress to soothe your own" and hiring a court jester."
I stopped skimming thru this bull crap after that^
The whole concept of making yourself feel better because you are in a better situation than someone else will not give you any ease in the long run. At the end of the day comparing yourself to the cliche kids in Africa that are dying from hunger is still comparing;;;;;; That my friend is not conducive to your happyness.
I see that the majority really didn't catch the main idea of the article. One word - satire.
And - believe me - the author is not saying about 'comparing yourself to others below you'.
Really good article, thanks.
BR, Mark
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