Sunday 26 March 2023

Life Reimagined: Emotional Regulation, San Francisco, Sunrise, and Money

March 26, 2023 | Read Online

Emotional Regulation, San Francisco, Sunrise, and Money

What's the most important skill for adulthood?

Calvin Rosser
March 26, 2023

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😶‍🌫️ I. Emotional Regulation

Emotional regulation — the ability to manage your emotions and behaviors across time and different situations — is at the core of being mentally and physically well, cultivating healthy romantic relationships and friendships, dealing with stress, and working effectively with other people.

The problem is that emotional regulation is hard work.

Learning how to modulate yourself effectively is a lifetime's worth of effort that often requires enhanced self-awareness, behavioral change, confronting limitations and traumas, and learning what works and doesn't work for your system.

While there is no magic pill for emotional regulation, one of the hacks that works well for me is doing small acts of kindness for other people when I'm not feeling well. Small things like making dinner for my wife, paying for a stranger's coffee, or helping a friend think through a hairy problem can have a profoundly positive impact on my psychology.

I don't know exactly why this works, but being kind to others feels good. My guess is that it has something to do with getting out of my head and connecting in small ways with the people and world around me.

This little hack won't cure all of your maladies, but if you're feeling down or stuck inside your head, try doing something nice for another person and see if that nudges you toward a more regulated state.

🏢 II. San Francisco

I've been living in San Francisco for a month, and I'm convinced it's still one of America's most beautiful and vibrant cities. It has a great balance of opportunity, nature, culture, and enjoyable places to hang out and eat.

What's funny about my early impression of the city is how different it is from the story you hear about San Francisco on the news and Twitter. If you tune in to those places, you'd think that what was once one of America's most innovative and beautiful cities has turned into a dangerous disaster zone that should be avoided at all costs.

While the city certainly has many well-documented problems and quirks, my experience so far is that those shortcomings don't actually have a substantial impact on my day-to-day life or sense of satisfaction.

This delta between lived experience in a place and the stories that spread online about that place is one of the reasons why I stopped reading the news many years ago.

The reality of the modern world is that the business model of news and social media has created a vicious war for your attention. And the best way to capture that attention is to share stories that make you think the world is going to hell and that everyone around you has gone crazy.

One of my strongest beliefs is that you can improve your life significantly by not taking this stuff too seriously. If you want to know how something is, don't read about it online. Go out in the world and see it for yourself.

What you often find is that most people are well-intentioned and kind, most cities are not falling apart, and everyday life is filled with more beauty than chaos.

🌅 III. Sunrise

I enjoyed this wholesome thread that features paintings of the sunrise. My favorite painting is The River of Light by Frederic Edwin Church (1877).

🧠 IV. Something I'm Thinking About

"One of my very few regrets is that I spent far too much time worrying about how things might work out. It's a huge waste, but it is a bit hardwired into me. Don't do it. The older I get the more I hold each day precious. I've become steadily more relentless in purging from my life things, activities and people who no longer add value while seeking out and adding those that do."

JL Collins in The Simple Path to Wealth. Resurfaced using Readwise.

Looking back at my life, it's funny to think about how much energy I've spent fretting about things that never came to pass. Some of that worrying helped me prepare for an unknowable future, but a lot of it was wasted energy and unnecessary stress that caused more harm than good.

No matter how much we want to exert control over our future, the reality is that we only have a light grasp on life.

If the world wants to hit us with a beautiful moment or a devastating wrecking ball, it will. We're mostly along for the ride, and the best way to enjoy that ride is to do your best, try to enjoy most days, and avoid thinking too much about how everything is going to work out in the end.

That's all for now. See you next Sunday.

— Cal

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Saturday 25 March 2023

5 things you may have missed during a pivotal week for the Fed and markets

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Yahoo Finance Morning Brief withh Myles Udland and Sam Ro

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Today's newsletter is by Brian Sozzi, Executive Editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App.

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The Federal Reserve huffed and puffed, and yet the stock market didn't fall down even as fears of more bank failures remained top of mind with lawmakers and investors.

The Fed lifted the target range for its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday. Chairman Jerome Powell suggested to reporters that rates could have been hiked by 50 basis points if not for pressures in the banking system.

Powell also ruled out rate cuts this year in response to a question from Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger at the Fed's press conference.

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And while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 530 points by the close of trading on Wednesday, the market stabilized on Thursday as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other top businesspeople did everything they could publicly and behind the scenes to tamp down concerns of a full-blown bank crisis.

"This isn't a crisis," one prominent CEO told me over dinner this week, adding the situation is far less dire than the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession. The exec blasted leaders at Silicon Valley Bank but also voiced concern about the outcome of First Republic (FRC).

A person familiar with the Treasury Secretary's thinking told me the department is closely watching deposit inflows at the banks — and that suggests the financial system isn't in crisis mode.

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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference after the Fed raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on interest rate policy in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis

By Friday, however, market stress was back in focus as all eyes turned to Deutsche Bank (DB) and its various struggles and now dwindling stock price.
In other words, another wild week!

Here are five things you may have missed during another very busy week for markets.

1. Nvidia's AI push
The Street gushed over Nvidia's (NVDA) various projects and exposure to the new artificial intelligence movement at its annual GTC conference. But we also heard from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the impact of higher interest rates — well-timed considering this was Fed meeting week.

"This is the time when we all have to do more with less," Jensen told Yahoo Finance Live (video above), "and accelerated computing is really the best path forward to do so."

Nvidia shares are up a sizzling 18% in March.

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2. Speaking of AI...
Microsoft (MSFT) founder Bill Gates made his first substantive comments on AI, coming on the heels of the company he launched that is pushing deeper into the ChatGPT realm.

"Superintelligent AIs are in our future," Gates said in a new post on his blog. Gates believes people will see AI on par with the capabilities of a human brain 10 to 100 years from now.

Scary or cool, it could prove lucrative to Microsoft's bottom line over the next decade — and Gates's net worth.

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3. Ford, refounded
Ford execs made a pitch to Wall Street at a teach-in held at the New York Exchange: We will make money on EVs by 2026.

Crunching the numbers, Ford is on pace to lose more than $5 billion on an operating basis in its EV business for the combined 2022 and 2023 period. CEO Jim Farley told me he's ready to go after Tesla's lucrative profit margins in the EV business.

4. GameStop plays with investors
Hardcore fans of GameStop (GME) — of which there are many — rejoiced when the company posted its first profitable quarter in over two years.
CEO Matt Furlong promised more cost-cutting, too, in another short earnings call.

But these same folks appear to have forgotten that GameStop continues to have issues growing its sales, and that could catch up to the retailer over time, as Yahoo Finance reported. Power to the fundamental analysts.

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5. People chow down at the movies
Staying with the meme stocks, AMC (AMC) stock caught a bid mid-week in the wake of GameStop's better-than-expected quarter.

The company's performance also caught a shout-out from CEO Adam Aron.

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"Learned at my weekly staff meeting that AMC set an all-time record last week for the highest-ever in our history 'Food and Beverage Revenue Per Patron,'" Aron tweeted to his 293,000 followers. "Thank you to our theatre crews for their record-setting efforts. And for our guests, we hope you liked the food and drink!"

Tips on the banking crisis? Email brian.sozzi@yahoofinance.com

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