“The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel

  • Knowing what to do is different from how we feel about it
  • You are already living the dream
  • Brothers are more likely to make the similar income than be similar heights
  • Be content with what you have
  • Don’t give up what you have because you want/need for something you don’t have and don’t need
  • Ice ages are caused by mild summers that don’t melt all the winter snow
  • Highest returns tend to be one time hits
  • Margin of safety is the most important thing
  • Having cash on hand is vital to weathering downtown
  • Having expensive things does not make us content
  • Fevers are good
  • Invest based on what is reasonable not what is rational
  • “Things that have never happened before, happen all the time.”
  • It is different about 20% of the time
  • We started develop a notion that all Americans should have basically the same lifestyle and using debt is okay to do this
  • “The more the internet exposes difference in lifestyle, the more people get pissed.”