Interesting things today:

The worst thing that can ever happen to you in poker, is to have the second best hand. Now about something completely different , recently Malcolm Gladwell, best selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, has a new book Outliers. In the book he discusses the 10,000 hour rule. The 10,000 hour rule suggests that in order to master any subject, you have to spend at about 10,000 hours of practice. I know most people are thinking, WHAO WTF I CANNOT DO THAT LOL. No, you cannot do that, for everything. If there was a skill that was highly valuable, that you would love to do for the rest of your life, would you then spend that time? Yes, i think you would. View youtube video on the subject of 10,000 hours of practice:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4hPbHIZ6Y

Secondly, as you might know, that right now England's attack on America is spewing about 95,000 barrels of oil into the gulf coast. Millions of pelicans, ducks, dolphins, rare sea turtles, fish and sea creatures are dying a slow oily death.

Lastly, a cheap source of quality eyeglasses. http://www.zennioptical.com/home.php I have ordered several glasses from Zenni Optical, all of them were high quality, and came nicely packaged. Warning though, delivery will take some time 2-3 weeks. One of the reasons I have ordered so many glasses, is so I can have a less than prescription pair for close work like computing. I am currently trying out a test to improve my eyesight naturally, so I no longer need glasses. The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness is a very interesting book that explains about myopia (nearsighted) and how it can be reversed naturally.  The book is available from amazon.com, it is a great read. I strongly suggest everyone who wears glasses to rent from library, ebay, or borrow it from a friend.

Also the 3 year price to earnings ratio of the entire Standard & Poor's 500 index. This data is avaiable nowhere else on the net. http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An7H3OXu7MXddGdXX1VuWjBaMHNBeFQxMlFsVExoZWc&hl=en

You will never have enough time to do everything you want to do. You must prioritize your tasks. Do the most important first, the second most imporant second.

Interesting books:

Eat that frog: brian tracy;s wonderful book on how to do more important things with your valuable time.PDF DOWNLOAD

A rapidshare search engine? WARNING NOT SAFE FOR WORK

In this fifth book "Rich Dad" series, Kiyosaki focuses on the power of debt leveraging in order to work less and earn more. He explains the difference between earned income and passive or investment income, managing good debt that makes money for you, such as in real estate, and the emotional discipline to stick to it.

A very nice and fast proxy server, WARNING DO NOT USE FOR SENSITIVE INFORMATION. (updated Monday, March 8, 2010)

Also on a side note, there was a really bad downloader virus on my computer i recently discovered. The earliest file from the virus was in 2007. I do not know how long it was on my computer running. Windows xp is not to be trusted. I tried to remove all of the virus and crap, but it is difficult to clean. I am not sure but it was accessing remote websites from my computer ??? I have never heard of such a  virus before, and I was even running anti-virus.

Today the news post will be short but full of cool and useful things.

First, Tony Robbins gives a interesting and motivating talk on emotion, how he had no food at 11, how al gore could have won. Robbins also discusses how time, money, and reasources are never the limiting factor in humans achieving their dreams. 18 minutes

Second, Professor Robert H. Lustig, MD, explains evidence that fructose is as dangerous to your liver as alcohol. Fructose is not used by any cell in your body, and can only be broken down by your liver. 90 minutes

Third, full fight video of Fedor Emelianenko vs Brett Rogers. This fight is from november 2009, but still very entertaining. 10 minutes

Fourth,Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, and Max Keiser discuss via radio show that social security is a ponzi scheme. 8 minutes

Lat and most important, a video from Wealthtrack, that interviews value manager Bruce Berkowitz explains how he has beaten the S&P by more than 200 percent over the past decade. He discusses the flaw in modern probablity of multiple rolls, spins, and coin flips.

CONSUELO MACK: If you look at the events of the last two years, a lot of people were shocked at what happened, the market meltdown, the credit freeze-over, and a very popular book over the last couple years has been The Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb. He’s been on WealthTrack, and the fact that people look at what these “black swan” events and say this is a once-in-a-lifetime, a once in a generation, a once in a 100-year perfect storm. But you’re saying not so, and you have to figure they’ll happen more often. BRUCE BERKOWITZ: That’s right. Hurricane predictions, you say this is a storm that will happen every one in 300 years or one in 100 years, but we seem to have these 1 in 100-year storms every seven to 15 years. We don’t get it right. There’s a problem with the modeling. There’s a lack of common sense, and also with statistical theory that it’s only going to happen once in 100 years- what happens if it happens in the first year rather than the 70th year? Your statistics is all about the spinning of a roulette wheel in the Monte Carlo simulations. But you can’t apply that, for example, to Russian roulette. If you have a gun with 1,000 chambers and one bullet, does it pay to put it to your head and pull the trigger? The answer is no because if that bullet is in the first chamber, you can’t pull again. You’re dead. So a lot of statistics assume that you can keep spinning and spinning and take chances and chances when, if you play Russian roulette, you can’t continue. And this probability theory that people apply to investing takes you down a very treacherous path.