The 10 Best Games for Learning About the Stock Market. Much like skydiving, playing the stock market is not an activity you want to learn through your mistakes.
Fortunes are made and lost all the time by people who think (or thought) they had a handle on stock trading. If you have a few million you can afford to lose, or you're investing with someone else's money (you're a bank, in other words), by all means, jump right in. But for the other 99%, we recommend simulating the experience of stock market investing first, to learn what to do and not do with your hard-earned cash. Here are the 10 best games to help you do that. WeSeed:While some of the games on this list may be more concerned with purveying entertainment than education, WeSeed's No. 1 goal is to teach people about the stock market and take the fear out of investing. 22 Ways to Overclock Your Brain. “I just found out that the brain is like a computer.
If that’s true, then there really aren’t any stupid people. Just people running DOS.” - Anonymous The brain is a three-pound supercomputer. It is the command and control center running your life. Your brain is more complicated than any computer we can imagine. It’s simple, your brain is at the center of everything you do, all you feel and think, and every nuance of how you relate to people. No matter what your age, mental exercise has a global, positive effect on the brain. 1. Research suggests that people who get plenty of physical exercise can wind up with better brains. 2. It isn’t just physical exercise that gets those brain cells jumping. 3. Our brains are wired to be curious. 4. Scientists tell us that laughter is good for our health; that it releases endorphins and other positively powerful chemicals into our system. 5. 6. Get out an old photo album or high school yearbook. 7. Can “bad” fats make you dumb? Structure Your Presentation Like a Story - Nancy Duarte.
By Nancy Duarte | 8:00 AM October 31, 2012 After studying hundreds of speeches, I’ve found that the most effective presenters use the same techniques as great storytellers: By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs to be resolved.
That tension helps them persuade the audience to adopt a new mindset or behave differently — to move from what is to what could be. And by following Aristotle’s three-part story structure (beginning, middle, end), they create a message that’s easy to digest, remember, and retell. Here’s how it looks when you chart it out: And here’s how to do it in your own presentations.
Craft the Beginning Start by describing life as the audience knows it. After you set that baseline of what is, introduce your vision of what could be. What is: We fell short of our Q3 financial goals partly because we’re understaffed and everyone’s spread too thin. Driving Growth: The Female Economy in China and India. At The Boston Consulting Group, we have been tracking the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of women around the world for nearly a decade.
In our most recent poll of Chinese and Indian women, we found considerable optimism about life and future prospects. Chinese women are more optimistic and feel more secure than women in the West. According to our research, 88 percent of Chinese women feel secure in their current financial position, whereas only 62 percent of American women feel that level of security.
Eighty-seven percent of Chinese women feel secure in their current job, compared with only 44 percent in the United States. Moreover, Chinese women have many role models of success in the business world. India’s urban middle-class women are similarly optimistic—particularly when it comes to their political, social, economic, and professional futures. Again, as in China, there are several standard-bearers of success.