Experiments show that needy people are myopic in their thinking and have lower intelligence and cognitive ability. The importance of circulation and flow.

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・Whenever there is a positive article about the U.S. economy getting better, the next week, and five weeks later, stock prices are found to be rather “down.

・The report also found that the more positive the president’s economic outlook, the worse the subsequent GDP and unemployment indicators tended to be.

・In other words, many people would like to make a lot of money in the stock market, but it is not always easy to predict the outcome.

・The University of Warwick in the UK asked 464 sugarcane farmers to take intelligence tests twice, once before harvest and once after.

・Before the harvest, the farmers had run out of money and could not afford to spend it. After the harvest, the farmers had money coming in and were wealthy.

・The results showed that pre-harvest farmers performed very poorly on intelligence tests and on brain training tasks that measure cognitive function.

・When people are in need of money, they tend to become myopic and unable to think from different perspectives.

The above is a quote from the article

Importance of being aware of circulation and flow

I do a little bit of investing myself, albeit with small amounts of money.

But I don’t make investment decisions based on what someone else, such as an expert, says.

As the article above says, experts’ predictions are often off. It is a statistical fact that “experts’ predictions are almost always off,” even for experts in various fields.

If you know that even Warren Buffett, the god of investment, has an average annual return of 20%, you will also understand how bankrupt the idea of one-shot stock investments is.

Thus, you can see that the basic premise of investing is to think for yourself and invest steadily, based on the assumption that investing is not a straight forward process. This is something that even I, with my limited investment experience, can understand if I know the above information.

So far, this is just an aside, and here is today’s main topic.

I found the study of sugarcane farmers in the article interesting, in my opinion.

According to the experiment, it appears that farmers with no money before harvest had lower intelligence and cognitive scores.

One trend is as follows.

Rich people tend to be richer and,

poor people tend to get poorer and poorer.

One reason for this is, as in the results of the experiment,

One of the reasons for this may be that when people are in need of money, they tend to be myopic and cannot think from various perspectives, and therefore their intelligence and cognitive abilities decline.

It’s not just about money, but a larger story,

People in a virtuous cycle create more and more virtuous cycles

I think it can be said that people with a vicious cycle will fall into a vicious cycle.

I believe it can also be said that

Healthy people get healthier and healthier, and sick people get sicker and sicker.

Negative people, positive people,

Muscular people, injured people,

I think there are various good and bad cycles.

I believe that circulation and flow are very important.

First of all, you need to understand what kind of circulation and flow you are currently in,

If it is positive, maintain and strengthen it.

If it is negative, you need to be aware of braking and shifting.

As I mentioned above, when we are in trouble, we tend to think myopically and our intelligence and cognitive abilities tend to decline.

It is important to act, not just think

It is important to act, not just say

but the importance of action is often said,

On the contrary,

It is quite hard to change actions, but it is relatively easy to change thoughts and words.

Therefore,

If you feel something, a negative cycle or flow within you, I recommend that you first try to change your thoughts and words. (gratitude or positive words)

I think it’s okay to think that action will follow, or at least that’s what I think. (Especially when you are in a corner and feeling weak)

I write all this like I’m a smart person, but I also write it with a sense of self-discipline. ^^ ^^

I have written what I think from the story of the investment and the sugar cane farmer.

What kind of circulation and flow do you have now? What is your state of mind?

Let’s feel them and create a good circulation and flow.

See you then

Like a stock chart, it may be important to have the humility that life “can’t go up forever” and the hope that it “can’t go down forever”.