“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.” - Australian psychiatrist W. Béran Wolfe
“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” - Sonja Lyubomirsky
In the 1960s, when venture capital was virtually unheard of, most investors were family offices and only tens of millions of dollars were invested in start-ups each year, recalled Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who backed Amgen and Applied Biosystems. That grew to hundreds of millions of dollars in the 1970s, a few billion in the 1980s and $100 billion in the 1990s, when “we knew it wouldn’t go on,” he said.
Above is a chart of baby name popularity over 120 years. Though what happens to the ones that are popular and stay popular?
Of particular interest from the study:
People who want to ensure the persistence and success of particular items should seek to popularize the items at a slow but steady pace.
