Morgan Housel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If everything else in your life sucked and you woke up every morning going, oh, I got to go to work today.
I hate my job.
I can't stand my job.
I'm lonely.
I'm miserable.
I'm overweight.
I can't sleep.
I'm addicted to alcohol, whatever it might be.
Of course, it's a terrible life.
The house and the car don't matter at all.
But you can flip that around and say like, let's say you live in a very modest middle-class house and you drive a 10-year-old Honda Civic, but you love your job.
You love your coworkers.
You have a great relationship with your spouse.
Your kids admire you.
You have your friends over for a barbecue every Friday night.
Materially, it's very modest.
You have what you need.
You're not impoverished.
You're not homeless.
You have the food that you want, the shelter that you want, but you would be an absolute maniac to choose food.