Morgan Housel

Who, without diminishing some of the obvious pain and suffering that they've been through, will be like, might have a newfound appreciation for life.

Might have a newfound appreciation for sunsets and things like that.

Where the lottery winner is almost the opposite.

When they win, they're like, life's going to be freaking amazing from here on out.

And when it's not, they're like, oh, geez, I thought it was going to be great.

It's not.

And so you get a lot of counterintuitive results like that.

One common review of Same As Ever was

Of course, there's a wide spectrum of comments, but I feel like a median review of it was good book, not as good as Psychology of Money.

And I always been like, man, if I didn't write Psychology of Money, you probably would have just said good book and finished it there.

And it's okay.

Maybe.

But I think it's inevitable and it's a good problem to have.

But it's interesting that I write about that power of expectations and experienced it in a potent way firsthand.

Yeah.

I always say be very careful who you socialize with because it will full stop will set your expectations of what you want.

And I use the example that I grew up out in the out in the mountain sticks outside of Lake Tahoe.

And it was very much a mountain town, not poor, but not rich by any standards.

And then I went to college in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles during the housing bubble in the mid-2000s when there was just overflowing with literally trillions of dollars of fake money.