Small things lead to big changes. A four year old complains that his father doesn’t spend too much time with him. The father reconsiders his career and starts his own investment advisory firm. Later a close friend suggests him to write a blog to draw more traffic to the firm’s web site. The blog has turns out to be a highly appreciated one.
Meet Kent Thune, the founder of Atlantic Capital Investments. Kent helps people with their financial planning, investments, and retirement plans. His blog started with a fine theme where he used philosophical quotes over the themes of his posts. Now, this blog has a bank of interesting write ups about topics like current affairs, investments, books, behavioral finance, self awareness and much more.
The thing that caught my attention is not Kent’s skill of providing information but his style in doing so. While reading through Kent’s post you will sense the profoundness and wit that he possesses. These articles are a unique mixture of modern information and timeless philosophical teachings. This mixture is finely blended with the explanation of our brain’s behavior in performing the basic day to day activities. For example, the article called ‘know thy self.’ It seems as if a serene looking caricature of Socrates tells us how our own brain tricks us and we fail to understand the difference between real risk and perceived risk. Similarly in ‘The five minute retirement plan’, Martin Heidegger, through Kent’s medium tell us about what retirement exactly means. This article indeed makes us all think about our understanding of the word retirement.
I have personally started to appreciate Kent’s wisdom and his undoubted ability to relate and explain ancient philosophies with our current world and also the rationality of our brains behavior and how badly we misinterpret it. One such article is ‘Self motivation and other hyper-intentional mistakes.’ In this one Kent will convince you that when we try to motivate ourselves, we enforce it on us. We, in fact should let the melancholy flow and take its course. He explains this idea using some quotes like “if you’re going through hell, keep going”, by Winston Churchill. Some other brain patterns which Kent introduces us to, can be read in his posts the unlearning process and habits of a reflective mind. These are some of Kent’s fantastically written pieces which if you can manage to relate to, will change your perception of things. Kent’s blog has become the latest add to my favorite lists.
