Morgan Housel

That's true for a lot of things, not just outside money, but values.

It's very easy to think today, I have these, the boundary of my morality is this, but the truth is like, if I started hanging out with different people, it might become this, the boundaries of my morale, or sorry, it might shrink.

What I'm willing to do might be very influenced by who I'm hanging out with.

I think that's true for nearly all of us.

One is I would say thank you for saying that and noticing that, but it takes work.

It is not just you get there and you're like, oh, everything's great.

Now I can just cruise on this authentic life.

It takes, I think, daily work.

And so even as someone who writes about expectations and keeping up with the Joneses and whatnot, I think I feel like I have to remind myself daily of it.

Now, there are a lot of things like that in life.

If you master meditation, you don't get to stop.

You got to do it every day.

And if you do stop, you just revert back to where you were.

Same with exercise.

You don't get to physical fitness and then you get to stop.

You got to work on it daily.

So I think this is one of those things as well that takes a lot of effort.

But I think the realization, easier said than done, but the realization and the observation that people are not paying attention to you as much as you think they are,

And therefore, you should stop trying to impress strangers and use money to give yourself a tool of things that are giving you a lot of fulfillment, your relationships, your health and whatnot.

To me, that was like the biggest breakthrough.