Continuing with our series on what images make us feel calm – we have a third category – “natural” fractals.

Health/Wellness

The main reason exercise is healthy is that it helps us form social bonds.  Yeah,the sweating is secondary.  Increase in length of life based on sport played:

Going to the gym: 1.5 years

Running: 3.2 years

Cycling: 3.7 years

Soccer: 4.7 years

Tennis: 9.7 years

Money

Individual investor’s stock portfolios underperform the market index by 3.5%, primarily because they emotionally buy high and sell low.  This is the primary reason I am such a big fan of diversifying into illiquid investments like privately held companies, real estate, and more.

Random

Decades into using Microsoft Word and Excel for our work, some surprising conclusions about how this work shift impacted us. 

From a loss of regional dialects, to reducing creativity (hello templates!), to creating massive data errors.  An egregious example: Some 20% of genetic papers were impacted by improper auto-corrects…example: genes named MARCH1 (Membrane Associated Ring-CH Finger 1) and SEPT1 (Septin 1) kept getting auto formatted as dates without the researchers realizing it.

Reflection/Quote 

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (30 Nov 1667-1745)