Morgan Housel

the miserable person in the mansion versus the content, happy person in the middle-class house.

If your goal is to live a good life, it's psychotic to pick one over the other.

Right.

I had a similar realization to you a couple of years ago when I took my family and I went to Maui for a vacation.

And I love Maui.

It's my favorite place in the world.

And now they have kids.

So I'm building sandcastles with my kids on the beach in Maui.

And that, I remember thinking like, this is a 10 out of 10.

This is like, this is peak life for me.

Building sandcastles with my kids.

Everyone's happy in the sun.

But then I had this realization of like, if that's a 10,

Playing with Legos at home on the living room floor with my kids is like a nine.

Like it's really close because realization was what I enjoy is like quality time with my kids.

I think a lot of the reason that people like travel is not because they like getting on an airplane and flying around the world and being jet lagged and cramped into a small hotel.

What they like is uninterrupted time away from work, away from all the other stresses of everyday life.

That's what they actually enjoy.

That's what they like travel.

It's not necessarily the location.