Morgan Housel

And by and large, that is almost never true because no one's thinking about you as much as you are.

They're not paying attention to your car or your clothes or your house.

They're busy worrying about themselves.

Jimmy Carr, I think you've had on the show before.

Is that right?

Love Jimmy Carr.

He said this a couple of weeks ago.

I heard it and it was one of those I had to stop and write it down because it was so profound.

He said, in your 20s, people worry about what other people think of them.

In your 30s, you say, I don't care what anybody thinks of me.

And in your 40s, you finally realize the truth, which was nobody was thinking about you the whole time.

They were busy worrying about themselves.

And look, that's not black and white.

Of course, people think about you and look at you and sometimes judge you, but not nearly to the extent that we think.

And that was why I get back to the exercise.

If nobody was watching, how would I live?

The truth is because virtually nobody is watching.

except the people who I really love and admire.

And they're going to admire me for things that have nothing to do with the kind of car that I drive or the clothes that I wear.

Life's a competition.