How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
No skill is more valuable and harder to come by than the ability to critically think through problems. And schools don’t teach you a method of thinking. It’s one of those things that can be learned but can’t be taught. When it comes to thinking and making decisions the mind has an optimal way to be operated. When operated correctly you’ll find yourself with plenty of free time. When operated incorrectly, most of your time will be consumed correcting mistakes.
Good initial decisions pay dividends for years, allowing you abundant free time and low stress. Poor decisions, on the other hand, consume time, increase anxiety, and drain us of energy.
But how can we learn how to think?
For the answer we turn to Solitude and Leadership, a lecture given by William Deresiewicz. The entire essay is worth reading (and re-reading). https://fs.blog/great-talks/solitude-and-leadership/
Learning How To Think
Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think. A study by a team of researchers at Stanford came out a couple of months ago. The investigators wanted to figure out how today’s college students were able to multitask so much more effectively than adults. How do they manage to do it, the researchers asked? The answer, they discovered—and this is by no means what they expected—is that they don’t. The enhanced cognitive abilities the investigators expected to find, the mental faculties that enable people to multitask effectively, were simply not there. In other words, people do not multitask effectively.
And here’s the really surprising finding: the more people multitask, the worse they are, not just at other mental abilities, but at multitasking itself. One thing that made the study different from others is that the researchers didn’t test people’s cognitive functions while they were multitasking. They separated the subject group into high multitaskers and low multitaskers and used a different set of tests to measure the kinds of cognitive abilities involved in multitasking.
They found that in every case the high multitaskers scored worse. They were worse at distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information and ignoring the latter. In other words, they were more distractible.
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Rob Cunningham: A New Monetary Era is here
9-4-2026
RIPPLE: THE CONNECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF PROGRAMMABLE GLOBAL FINANCE
A new monetary era has taken form.
The G20 is advancing financial modernization, digital assets, ISO 20022 harmonization, longer payment-system operating hours and better cross-border payments.
History Makes a STRONG Case For A Dinar Revaluation
The Dinar Den: 9-3-2026
Global monetary systems are rarely static, continuously evolving through cycles of restructuring, technological innovation, and geopolitical readjustments.
Among the most discussed topics in modern currency analysis is the long-term trajectory of the Iraqi dinar and the broader economic framework supporting its potential revaluation. Rather than viewing currency shifts as isolated financial events, expert analyses suggest that significant monetary adjustments are part of a larger historical continuum.
Bruce’s Big Call Dinar Intel Thursday Night 9-3-26
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Welcome everybody to the big call tonight. It is Thursday, September 3rd and you're listening to the big call. Thanks everybody for tuning in. We appreciate you, and we are still reaching over 20 million listeners in 160 or more countries. So that's good news, and so we're getting the. the call out there, and I'm excited about that. I'm excited about where we are, really. Believe it or not, and I'll have some good information to give you guys in my segment.
All right. Let's get into the intel segment and let's see where we are today.
Good Afternoon Dinar Recaps,
GLOBAL INVESTORS MOVE $46 BILLION INTO CASH: JOBS SHOCK REIGNITES RATE RISKS AND REPRICES GLOBAL CAPITAL
Global investors are moving billions toward money-market funds and shorter-duration assets as a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report, elevated oil prices and bond-market stress increase the risk that interest rates will remain higher for longer.
MilitiaMan & Crew: Iraq's Quiet Build: Why everyone is watching the new cabinet
9-4-2026
The Crew: Samson, PompeyPeter, Petra, Daytrader, Sunkissed, GIGI and Militia Man
No drama. No intrigue. No songs and dances. Just straight, factual news that I read and interpret to the best of my ability after being an avid Dinar investor and insanely obsessed Dinarian for over 15 years.
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Tishwash: Asiabi launches Mastercard card program and connects its customers in Iraq to payments around the world
Asiabee offers virtual Mastercard, Platinum and World cards directly linked to the Asiabee wallet, enabling secure local and international payments through a single integrated digital experience.
AsiaBee today announced the launch of its own Mastercard card program, a move that expands the payment options available to its customers in Iraq Asiabi's wallet is linked to Mastercard's verified global network.
Ariel: The Iraq Budget, What to Watch
9-4-2026
September 15: Council of Ministers receives the draft. Watch for the redenomination language. If the 2027 budget includes specific provisions for currency note replacement, denomination restructuring, or central bank account recalibration the mechanism is live. It’s not a rumor. It’s line items in a federal budget.
The budget will sit with the Council of Ministers for approximately one month. Amendments. Approval. Then parliament. That puts the parliamentary vote window in mid-to-late October. If the Clarity Act moves through Congress on a parallel track and September 15 is the convergence signal both could reach final vote within the same October window.
The Budget Comes First... Parliament Pledges To Cooperate With The Government To Approve It Quickly, And The Parliamentary Finance Committee Reveals To NINA The Size Of Iraq's Debt
Baghdad / NINA / The Parliamentary Finance Committee has tallied Iraq's external and internal debts, while affirming that the Parliament will cooperate with the government to pass the general budget law as quickly as possible.
Good Morning Dinar Recaps,
CHINESE BANKS RETURN TO U.S. TREASURIES: DOLLAR DEPOSITS REVEAL A SHIFT IN GLOBAL CAPITAL FLOWS
Chinese commercial banks are increasing purchases of U.S. Treasuries after attracting more dollar deposits, highlighting the complicated relationship between de-dollarization, dollar liquidity and global demand for U.S. government debt.
Dutch CB Declares Gold As Ultimate Reserve Asset | Clive Thompson
Liberty and Finance: 9-3-2026
A major central bank is quietly repositioning its gold for a crisis, and Clive Thompson says investors should be paying close attention.
The Dutch central bank is moving gold reserves toward Londonand spreading its holdings across multiple locations, explicitly citing crisis preparedness and describing gold as an “anchor of trust” and an ultimate reserve asset for hedging extreme systemic risks.
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Thursday Night Video
FRANK26…9-3-26….THE ANSWER
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Frank’s team is Walkingstick, Eddie and Omar in Iraq and guests
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A Silent Crisis is Hitting Private Banks... and a Source Warns: "Al-Taif" May Not Be the Last.
Last updated: September 3, 2026 Al-Mustaqilla / Special / - Iraqi private banks are entering a very sensitive phase, amid warnings of widening liquidity problems and the inability of some banking institutions to meet their obligations to their depositors, at a time when the sector is undergoing a broad restructuring and evaluation process led by the Central Bank of Iraq.
The Candlestick Makers Are Back, and This Time They're Not Joking
Notes From the Field By James Hickman (Simon Black / Sovereign man) September 3, 2026
In 1845, the French economist Frédéric Bastiat petitioned parliament on behalf of the nation's candlestick makers. They were being ruined, he wrote, by an unscrupulous rival that was flooding the market with light at a price no honest candlestick maker could match.
America's Dollar Was Backed by Gold Until 1971 — Why Everything Costs More Now
August 2026
In 1971, President Nixon went on live television and made a decision that changed the value of your money forever. He suspended the dollar's convertibility into gold — a move he called "temporary." It's now lasted over fifty years.
Before that night, every US dollar was backed by physical gold sitting in a vault. The world's currencies were anchored to the dollar, and the dollar was anchored to gold at a fixed rate.
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Friday Night Video
FRANK26….9-4-26…..THEY CALLED
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Frank’s team is Walkingstick, Eddie and Omar in Iraq and guests
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