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I tell you this for two reasons. First, because I saw Harvard as such a privilege, it fundamentally changed the way my brain processed my experience. I felt grateful for every moment, even in the midst of stress, exams, and blizzards (something else I had only seen in the movies). Second, my 12 years teaching in the classrooms and living in the dorms afforded me a comprehensive view of how thousands of other Harvard students advanced through the stresses and challenges of their college years. That’s when I began noticing the patterns.

The Happiness Advantage

Shawn Achor

Many decades after Simone Weil, the Zen master John Tarrant gave her insight a new dimension in his book The Light Inside the Dark. “Attention,” he wrote, “is the most basic form of love.”

The Good Life

Robert J. Waldinger and Marc Schulz Ph.D

The quest in value investing is for cheapness. Value investors typically look at financial metrics such as earnings, cash flow, dividends, hard assets and enterprise value and emphasize buying cheap on these bases. The primary goal of value investors, then, is to quantify the company’s current value and buy its securities when they can do so cheaply.

The Most Important Thing Illuminated

Howard Marks, Paul Johnson

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