ABOUT ME
- John Vespasian
- has lived in New York, Madrid, Paris and Munich. His stories reflect the values of entrepreneurship, tolerance and self-reliance.
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Philosophy 1
- The phantasy of hierarchies and the truth of contracts: adopting a rational view of the world
- The three principles of rational living and how they can help you
- Look for direct and immediate benefits
- The one recipe proven by experience
- How to prevent soul corrosion
- Join the commemoration of the Sheep of Panurge
- Achieving happiness in a chaotic world
- Why every chicken must break out of its own shell
- People to ditch, things to dump, and races that you shouldn't run
Philosophy 2
- Why Finnish people never raise their voice
- When to speak out and when to close your mouth: the rational approach
- Why you should base half of your decisions on facts and the other half on reality
- How to regain serenity and motivation after making a serious mistake
- The art of minimalism: throwing away what doesn't work
- How to prevent the myth of linear History from distorting your thinking
Philosophy 3
- The mirage of a perfect world and why you should avoid it
- When everything fails, try this
- Using Aristotle's teachings to solve problems
- If happiness is a long shot, it pays to aim close
- It looks good from this angle
- Why conformity and non-conformity are equally irrelevant for happiness
- You have more options than you think
- Lies I like to hear
- There is no future in repeating the past
- Life is a numbers game
- You have better things to do
- Let's try something new
- Help has arrived
Philosophy 4
- The shortcut to a better life: consistency
- What to do when you have no options left
- Turning low spirits into serenity and confidence
- Three elements of happiness: routine, progress, and achievement
- The only thing that counts
- Every day you can build a little higher
- How Confucius wasted 13 years of his life: a mistake that you can avoid
- Why productiveness is the key to happiness
Philosophy 5
- Why essential truths need to be continuously restated
- Why goals should be visible, action relentless, and noise ignored
- Ten reasons for rational optimism, here and now
- The easy way to avoid trouble in life
- Why consistency of purpose is a prerequisite of happiness
- On becoming fearless: how to remove obstacles to personal growth
- Why growth should be your top priority in life
- Advantages and disadvantages of leading a rational life
Psychology 1
- The biggest hurdles on your road to success and how to overcome them
- How to remove the main obstacle to self-reliance
- Celebrating insensitivity to nonsense
- My passion for saying maybe
- A wrong solution to every problem
- An entity capable of sense and perseverance
- Turning around difficult situations
- Take your losses and move forward
- Nobility here and now
- In praise of relentless action
Psychology 2
- Self-confidence arises from preparedness
- Describe your future in one sentence
- The link between personal effectiveness and happiness
- Rationality is the way to happiness
- Abandon perfectionism right now
- Learning from comic-book characters and romantic movies
- The key to unbreakable self-confidence
- How to start every day in a good mood
Career and Employment 1
Career and Employment 2
Investing 1
- On becoming a great investor
- The simple way to select investment ideas
- Act now or inflation is going to get you
- How to invest in times of high inflation
- Choosing simple investments in turbulent times
- Investing: what fails, what works, and what it takes
- You have the right to profit from the upcoming inflation: here is how
Investing 2
- Three essential steps to reduce personal risk
- I welcome the approaching storm
- Bold, ambitious, and amazing
- Lessons from my 25 biggest mistakes
- Twenty five benefits of the economic recession
- How to invest rationally: now more than ever
- My five defensive investments against the upcoming inflation
- US stocks offer great opportunity these days
- The magic investment formula is called realism
- The sunny side of the economic recession
Entrepreneurship 1
- There is a future and it's up to you
- Ten lessons from Ancient Rome
- The five elements of the entrepreneurial mind
- A moral ideal for the 21st century: the sovereign entrepreneur
- The essential factor in entrepreneurship
- Times of maximum despondency
- Eat fish but don't be fish
- Become an entrepreneur in your everyday life
Entrepreneurship 2
Entrepreneurship 3
Entrepreneurship 4
Entrepreneurship 5
Entrepreneurship 6
Health and Nutrition
Relationships and Dating
Short Stories 1
Short Stories 2
Short Stories 3
Short Stories 4
- The truth cannot be delayed
- The paranoia of the Swiss cheese-maker
- On the other side
- The man who put labels on bricks
- There is a garden beyond the desert
- Always feed crocodiles at dawn
- Children for Mathematics
- The inconsistency of the squirrel
- Things to do when you are not in Paris
- The day I saw the truth
- The five daughters of Johann Sebastian
- For the weight of an ant
- A deviation from the rule
- Speed is the ultimate frontier
Short Stories 5
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