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• Enneagram Type 5 – The Investigator
  what are you? I'm a 5w6…which probably explains why I'm an engineer
  (tags: personality)
• Understanding Investment Banking | Mergers & Inquisitions
  useful site
  (tags: ibanking)
• Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
  Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback ('Well done!'), whereas negative feedback ('Got it wrong this time') scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring. Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes. Adults do the same, but more efficiently.
  (tags: brain)

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• The Coolest Fruit On Earth | Environmental Graffiti
  The flavour-altering berry (or Synsepalum dulcificum, if you want to be technical), contains a protein called miraculin. When miraculin comes into contact with acids, the result is a sweet, sweet taste in your mouth. We want.
  (tags: fruit)

Is Past Experience Really That Important?

I quote from one of my favourite authors who quoted from a famous ship's captain:

Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a fa­mous ship's captain:

"But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident. . . of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."

- E. J . Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic

Captain Smith's ship sank in 1912 in what became the most talked-about shipwreck in history.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Afghanistan or Saudi?

Last week was a truly horrible & hard one for me! Staring at a 33% loss on my portfolio, all my Lehman shares went belly up, girlfriend of 6 years wanted a break-up due to the distance (I don't blame her…just thought our 6 years would have meant more), and promotion got again delayed…but the surprising thing is I got an offer from a family friend for a job in Afghanistan or Saudi. I have doubts working for a Chinaman and I hardly know him, but I wonder how bad can it be compared to what I'm doing now…perhaps, I need to goto Afghanistan to experience something new & get away from all my troubles now.

sighz…

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• DSCF0201 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  anyone knows what fish is this?
  (tags: fish)