https://finance.yahoo.com/news/howard-marks-only-made-5-211339778.html
Charles Tadros, M.D.
June 13, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
It’s not your money (and it ain’t your stuff either)…
(specific to personal finances)
Any physical item that you purchase, in part, or entirely, with any form of debt, automatically means that you don’t actually own the product.
You may have physical possession of the product. You may use the product. You may use up the product, wear it out, break it or lose it, but you don’t (didn’t) own it.
The person or institution that lent you the money to purchase the item is the real owner, at least until you have paid off your debt.
Don’t count the money that you’ve just borrowed as your money. It is not.
Not only is any borrowed money not your money, but any collateral that you may have put up (house, real estate, car, boat, motorcycle, business, accounts receivable, stocks, or bonds) are no longer really yours either…try missing 3 or 4 payments to the lender, and see what happens to: the original item that you’d purchased, you collateral, your credit score.
Frustrating ain’t it!
Charles Tadros, MD
June 12, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
Unwritten (and often, unstated) values and strategies for many, if not most, financially or academically successful immigrant families.
https://youtube.com/shorts/aYcuZ_1d6Ak?feature=share4
(Please listen to the lesson and incorporate your value system to help make it apply to your situation. Don’t be distracted by whether or not you like the speaker, or approve of his cultural stances.)
Charles Tadros, M.D.
July 4, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
The difference between being well read and critical thinking…
Charles Tadros, M.D.
July 2, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
The difficulty of predicting risk in novel situations…
This is a very benign appearing stunt.
Who would ever predict that these life jackets could just as easily have held her face down, instead of face-up, in the water?
Charles Tadros, M.D.
June 22, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
IF SOMEONE WERE TO OFFER TO ALLEVIATE US FROM THE DAY-TO-DAY ROUTINE OF BRUSHING OUR KIDS’ HAIR, BRUSHING THEIR TEETH, DRIVING THEM TO SCHOOL, LISTENING TO THEM DRONE ON ABOUT ESOTERIC OR SILLY TOPICS, READING TO THEM, OR TUCKING THEM INTO BED, WE WOULD NOT TAKE THEM UP ON THAT OFFER. THERE ARE MANY MUNDANE AND REPETITIVE TASKS WHICH WE WOULD NEVER GIVE AWAY TO ANOTHER PERSON.
So much of life is not about speed and efficiency. We forget that what we try to accomplish at work, and the means that we use to accomplish these goals, do not necessarily apply to our personal lives.
Charles Tadros, M.D.
November 27, 2021
Saint Louis, Missouri
5 takeaways from a study lasting 80 years, regarding our health and happiness…
The basic problem with any advice is that, too often, conflicting advice may also be true, as shown in these proverbs…
https://youtube.com/shorts/s2a-DsX9Ezg?feature=share
Charles Tadros, M.D.
June 11, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
“Died by suicide.” vs “Committed suicide.”
Words make us question entrenched beliefs and assumptions. Words help change our focus and help alter perceptions which, in turn, open us up to more helpful ideas regarding support and solutions.
Charles Tadros, M.D.
June 3, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri
Neuroplasticity
“Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
The following is an example of 2 nerve cells, living outside of a body, wiring (connecting, communicating) with each other.
This innate activity is important since this event happens thousands of times per day, in our brains and spinal cords, as we grow in the womb and as infants.
Fortunately, as adults, we have this neuroplastic ability to connection (and disconnection) our neurons as we go about: acting, practicing, learning, experiencing, and thinking.
Charles Tadros, M.D.
June 3, 2023
Saint Louis, Missouri