Humans lie… It is a fact. Sometimes we lie just to make sure somebody feels comfortable. We call these lies white lies. For instance, if one of your relatives got cancer and you learned the result without him knowing, you may not want him to know the results. But humans lie most of the time…
I was travelling for a wedding to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem a couple of weeks ago and my mentor and a good friend, Avi Liran, was so kind to arrange some meetings for me while I was there. Lenny Ravich was my first meeting and, to be honest, I failed to do some research on…
On 18 March, European Union and Turkey decided to agree to end the irregular migration from Turkey to the EU. I personally believe this agreement is a hall of shame statement for not only for European Union, but also for Turkey. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you would remember that I have…
I have to admit that I didn’t start reading this book on purpose. It just happened to be in our house, since my wife has read it. I know that Daniel Goleman has another great book called Emotional Intelligence, but I haven’t had a chance to read that book, either. So, coincidence created the opportunity…
The definition of the growth mindset for me is the state of openness to continuous development. Because it is continuous, the growth mindset is easier said than done and it is a process that starts when you born and lasts up until you die. You will never be able to fully catch up with growth. You…
Britain is going for another referendum on June 23rd to decide whether to accept the EU reforms or leave the EU. On the street, people are referring to the referendum as the Brexit and the real question is: Will it really happen? I really don’t think so. Since David Cameron declared that he would re-negotiate…
The war in Syria has been going for some time now. Imagine there were no refugee crisis: would this kind of large scale crisis have bothered the developed world then? The refugee crisis diverted attention to Syria as refugees started flocking into European territory through Turkey, and all of a sudden Europe had to welcome…
It has been a very interesting year for the financial markets so far… The market has tumbled quite a bit since the beginning of the year and financial and energy companies are the main losers. Warren Buffet’s famous quotation is, “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” Even though the current…
A couple of months back, I published my next five books to read and one of them was Sapiens. Since this week marked Chinese New Year (Gong Xi Fa Cai!), it was a great opportunity to read Sapiens over the four-day break. I will share some of the author’s own sentences with my own comments…