Morgan Housel

You're broke.

Doesn't that make you unhappy?

She'd be like, what?

Like, do you think having more money makes the sunset more beautiful?

You think having more money makes going for a walk more pleasant?

And I'm not saying you should live like you should be content with that amount of money.

But the point is, like, she was content.

She was totally content.

And it was her choice.

And I think she was happier financially than some billionaires.

Because there's a lot of billionaires who have a billion dollars, but they want two.

They have two billion, but they want four.

One of the things is that happiness might be the wrong word here.

The word that people want is content.

When you sit here and daydream about having the bigger mansion, what you're actually doing is you are imagining yourself in the mansion being content with it.

You imagine yourself sitting in that house and saying, I don't want anything more than this.

The feeling that we are aspiring to is just being content.

Happiness is always like a 30 second emotion.

It's like laughter.

Like if I tell you a funny joke, you'll laugh for 30 seconds and then it's over.