I read a great article recently in the New York Times.  It revealed that studies ranging from Emory University to Silicon Valley indicate that children learn resilience when they discover how their family and previous generations have dealt with adversity.  Introducing stories from your past, trials and errors, success and failures – anything that reveals to your children that mistakes are a part of life – will enable them to become stronger, more resilient members of society.

Reading this article is a great starting point to come up with ways to weave your own family narrative into dinner table discussions this holiday season (which is right around the corner)! Ask your children and grandchildren questions, share your stories with them, and be prepared for new holiday memories to be made.

Please click here to read the full article: The Stories That Bind Us.

In this New York Times piece from Laura Vanderkam (who provided a stellar endorsement of Odds On), she audits her time to find out how busy she really is. It’s reminiscent of our own Rick Hill, who studied his calendar to find out how much of his life he earned back by adopting an evidence-based investment approach. How much was it? 6 weeks per year. As Laura says “A life is lived in hours. What we do with our lives will be a function of how we spend those hours, and we get only so many.” For the results of Laura’s study, click here.

1. A short video on the market’s response to Greece. Click here.
2. Did you like the Brad Pitt movie, Moneyball? Here’s the origin story of AVM Systems, the little-known company that jump-started sabermetrics and made Moneyball possible. Click here.
3. A great piece from The New York Times on the complicated world of investing. Click here.
4. A summary from DFA on the state of the mutual fund landscape. Click here.
5. DFA’s video detailing their fund construction and trading practices. Click here.