Viktor Frankl man's search for meaning - great perspective I needed while going through an emotionally difficult breakup. Basically it's a story about a psychologist during the holocaust and his experience in concentration camps. How it changed people and the experiences he lived through.
The big question in the book he's trying to answer is why do some people give up while others Excell in life.
Nobody knows what a great investment is, just understand your risk threshold and be OK with taking risks.
If you want a general rule of thumb look to invest in the broader market mainly and then have smaller portions of your portfolio invested in riskier assets.
This isn't a total cultural norm, if anything I think it's a view from america a few generations ago. For instance all of my friends and extended friend groups are open about our incomes.
With complete total strangers I would totally agree people generally don't lead with their salary. But after knowing people for a while it's come up a bunch and it's a taboo.
I guess it's more about priorities, if you want to build a web app don't reinvent the underlying protocols. If you want to build an embedded system for monitoring room temperature don't invent your own locks.
But if you want to make a lock by all means make a lock, just don't go and reinvent the chip architecture...
The big question in the book he's trying to answer is why do some people give up while others Excell in life.