Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, On one hand, I’m a capitalist investor. I study market cycles, track returns, think about diversification, and invest, quite deliberately, in the stock market. I do this to build retirement capital. To sleep at night. To avoid becoming a financial burden on my boys before we stepContinue reading “Ruminations on Investments, Retirement and Anxiety”
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Ruminations on my career
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Yes, this blog is often self-indulgent, and today will be no exception. I recently turned 64, and quite astonishingly, my wife still loves me. With less than a year to go until mandatory retirement, I’ve hit an important milestone: I no longer care about career advancement. I’veContinue reading “Ruminations on my career”
Ruminations on Ruminations
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, I ruminate—a lot. According to the dictionary, rumination is “deep or considered thought about something,” which sounds beneficial. However, a quick Google search reveals articles warning against it, labelling it a mental health problem. Psychologists describe rumination as the repetitive focus on negative thoughts and experiences withoutContinue reading “Ruminations on Ruminations”
Ruminations on mental disorders and grunt mode
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies In previous blog posts, I have confessed to self-diagnosed narcissistic personality disorder, prompting me to ruminate on mental disorders in general. It’s important to note that one is not confined to just one disorder; multiple disorders can coexist. In the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical ManualContinue reading “Ruminations on mental disorders and grunt mode”
Ruminations on a confabulated mind
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies How much are we truly anchored in objective reality? Do you live in the real world? Objective reality refers to the existence of things, events, and phenomena independent of individual perceptions, opinions, and interpretations. It is the idea that certain aspects of the world exist objectively, regardless ofContinue reading “Ruminations on a confabulated mind”
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