Returning to Parents' Homes: Common and Less Stigmatized | Fast-Track to $1 Million Business | Centenarian Hotspot Claims Questioned | Advocating for Simple Writing

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� � � � � � Moving back in with your parents is so common now that it's nearly lost its stigma - Fortune    In the months after the pandemic hit in 2020, nearly 50% of young adults—those aged 18 to 29—lived at home with their parents in the greatest numbers on record since the Great Depression. Some have since moved on, but one-third are still hanging on. Today, about 23 million young adults are shacking up with family—nearly 45% of the age group, per the U.S. Census. Despite the fact that in many cultures, children are expected to live with their parents and save money well into adulthood, doing so in America can carry an outsize stigma. Just ask personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, who said earlier this year that the situation is due to poor money management. But many of those adults who moved back home did so intentionally to shore up their debts and finally buy property or hit other financial goals, according to a Bloomberg News and Harris Poll survey of over 4,100 adults, conducted in August. Ramsey may be wrong; roughly 70% of the young adults who live with their parents that the Harris Poll surveyed said they would not be in a strong financial position if they hadn’t opted to live with their parents. The number one reason for moving home was to save money, the poll found, followed by taking care of older family members or dealing with immediate financial constraints.  Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Three Ways To Put Your Business On The Fast Track To $1 Million - Forbes    Jennifer Dawn’s client had built her company to $750,000 in revenue but was losing enthusiasm for the business. “It had sucked the life out of her,” says Dawn, who runs Jennifer Dawn Coaching in New York City. “She started to hate the business and it was tanking.” Revenue gradually slipped to $500,000. Dawn worked with her on marketing and other key areas of the business rebuild her sales—and also encouraged her to start exercising and otherwise taking care of herself. The client gradually built sales back to $1 million. Then the pandemic hit—and the schools the client served in the business were closed. “I’m going to lose my business,” she told Dawn. Continued here � � � � � � Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data - The Economist    OKINAWA IS famed for the longevity of its residents. The small Japanese island, far south-west of the mainland, boasts a life expectancy for 65-year-old women that is almost a year higher than the country-wide average, and around four years more than that of Britain or America. As a result, researchers seeking a life-extending elixir (see Technology Quarterly) have long looked to Okinawans for their secret. Eating a vegetable-rich diet, staying active and having a sense of purpose have all been suggested as candidates. But one pre-print study provides a more prosaic explanation for remarkable reported longevity in certain parts of the world: data errors. Estimates of the ages of the exceptionally elderly are often inaccurate. Few very old people have birth certificates. Some do not know their true age. And public records can be woefully unreliable. A government audit in 2010 uncovered 230,000 supposedly living Japanese centenarians who were dead or missing. Some errors are genuine mistakes, but others may be the result of deliberate efforts by individuals or family members to commit pension fraud. Continued here � � � � � � In favour of simple writing - The Economist    DO YOU EDIT text messages carefully before sending them? If so, you may be the kind of person who takes pride in crafting even the simplest message. If you do not, you may see yourself as a go-getter for whom verve and speed outrank care: get it done decently now rather than perfectly later. A new book makes the argument for being the careful kind of writer, even in informal, throwaway messages. Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink are behavioural scientists, both at Harvard. Their “Writing For Busy Readers” is cleverly titled: all readers are busy nowadays. People are bombarded constantly with messages, from the mailbox to the inbox to the text-message alert. (They can also be distracted by TikTok or “Candy Crush” at any moment.) What to read, what to skim and what to ignore are decisions that nearly everyone has to make dozens, or even hundreds, of times a day. The authors present well-established principles that have long been prized in guides to writing including The Economist’s style book (which Johnson helped update): cut unnecessary words, choose those that remain from the bedrock vocabulary everyone knows and keep syntax simple. But “Writing for Busy People” brings evidence. Continued here

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