Othman Alamri
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“(Demanding interest on loans was not permitted anywhere in Europe until 1545, when Henry VIII legalised it in England.)”
― Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
― Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
“human beings are notoriously bad at making accurate predictions of their futures, and notoriously bad at predicting how they will feel when they get to those futures. It turns out that you are not only inept at predicting what you will want in the future, but you are also inept at predicting how frightening your future will be. We rarely test out our fears against our past experience or against the evidence of our current reality, and then we are surprised when our future does not turn out to be as frightening as we predicted. Unfortunately for you, every thought you have about that future fear, draws a circle around the fear, zooming its importance in your mind to 2x or 3x magnification.”
― The Happiness Animal
― The Happiness Animal
“It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing “something” wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.”
― Emotional Intelligence
― Emotional Intelligence
“I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better if the Almighty had created us all as – well – as sort of plants. You know, firmly embedded in the soil. Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health”
― Emotional Intelligence
― Emotional Intelligence
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