May 30 Weekly takeaway

I was reading a blog and thought it would be a good motivational tool to write down the things I have learned in a week.

Investment

1. Invest at least $100 per week. In a year, I would have $5,200. With a 4% annual return, the money will be around $6,300 in 4 years.
2. Time is a friend of the wonderful business, but the enemy of the mediocre.

Atomic habits

1. Habits are not a finish line to be crossed, they are a lifestyle to be lived.

Scott Adams: Writing tips from Dilbert Creator Scott Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDwm-UPILuw

1. How to know your topic is good (You feel good. Others are familiar with this. Using a imaginary friend.)
2. Write for your reader, not you.
3. First sentence evokes curiosity.
4. Pace and lead the reader.
5. Direct sentences.
6. No jargon, adjectives, adverbs, cliches (Tomorrow is very hot vs. Tomorrow is hot. The readers can’t remember the difference of ‘very’).
7. brevity=brilliance
8. Sixth grade vocabulary
9. Musicality, percussion (e.g., Make American great again. The sentence feels right.)
10. No ugly words: moist, talc.
11. Consider associations (I like babies and automatic weapons.)
12. Visual language (Mcgurk effect, what you see overrides what you hear)
13. Violate a norm
14. End clever or provocative (e.g., call back)
15. Write every day
16. Humor formula: clever, naughty, bizarre, cruel, cute, recognizable (Use at least two of them to make a joke, more is better)