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The Psychology of Money

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by Morgan Housel

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No One's Crazy

Your personal experience with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

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Luck Risk

Nothing is as good or as bad as it

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Never Enough

There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don't have and don't need.

  1. The hardest financial skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving
  2. Social comparison is the problem here
  3. "Enough" is not too little
  4. There are many things never worth risking, no matter the potential gain

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Confounding Compound

$81.5 billion of Warren Buffett's $84.5 billion net worth came after his 65th birthday. Our minds are not built to handle such absurdities

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Getting Wealthy vs Staying Wealthy

Good investing is not necessarily about making good decisions. It's about consistently not screwing up

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Tails, You Win

You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune

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Freedom

Controlling your time is the highest dividend money pays

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Man In The Car Paradox

No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are

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Wealth Is What You Don't See

Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money

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Save

The only factor you can control generates one of the only things that matters.

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Reasonable >

Aiming to be mostly reasonable works better than trying to be coldly rational

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Surprise!

History is the study of change, ironically used as a map of the future

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Room For Error

The most important part of every plan is planning on your plan not going according to

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You'll

Long-term planning is harder than it seems because people's goals and desire change over time

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Nothing's Free

Everything has a price, but not all prices appear

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You & Me

Beware taking financial cues from people playing a different game than you

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The Seduction Of Pessimism

Optimism sounds like a sales pitch. Pessimism sounds like someone trying to help you

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When You'll Believe Anything

Appealing fictions, and why stories are more powerful than statistics

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