Morgan Housel

And that's okay.

I think I do that to some extent, but you have to perform for the right people.

I want to perform for, and that's a silly way to do it, but I desperately want to impress my wife, kids, parents, three or four of my friends, because I really want their love and attention.

Once you start into the realm of, I want to perform for strangers and get their attention, that I think is a completely fruitless game.

No, it's been an interesting thing of like, you know, I wrote my first book when I was married and had two kids.

And so all of this came after that.

Does my wife love me more?

No, she loved me enough back then.

And so, you know, do my kids, does my six-year-old daughter love me more now?

No.

Yeah, it's a good question.

I'll try to give you an honest answer.

I think it's a combination of, I genuinely love writing.

I think it's a lot of fun.

And if I'm looking at it from a financial point of view, I like the game.

I like the game of earn as much as I can, invest it as well as I can, compound it for as long as I can.

use that money to both live a great life right now and pass it along to my heirs and charity at various points in the future.

I love that game.

I freaking love it.

And I would be sad if I stopped playing that game.