Morgan Housel

And I don't want to live in a world where everyone wakes up and says, I have all I need.

Because then progress would stop that day.

We'd probably start declining that day.

And so there is a paradox here of like, as a whole society,

I'm grateful and you should be grateful that people wake up unfulfilled because we live in a way better world today than existed 100 or 200 years ago because of that.

And the richest people in the world who I think are by and large tortured psychologically have created amazing technology that you and I benefit from.

And the reason we're doing this podcast is because people before us who are way wealthier than you and I woke up in the morning and said, this is not enough.

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, all those people, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, they woke up and said, I don't care if I have a hundred billion dollars, it's not enough.

I need to create better technology.

And that's great.

We benefit from that.

And so there is a paradox here that what is all, and that will never change.

That will never change.

So there's a paradox that like the more, the better society becomes, I think.

It's always going to be the case that as a whole society, we're going to have a level of angst and anxiety and not be satisfied and say it's not enough.

At the individual level, though, I think you can recognize that game and contextualize it within your own life and say, like, look, I want more money.

I want to sell more books and have a better career.

I want to save more money.

I also have to go so far out of my way to put it into context and say, none of it's going to matter unless I have a higher purpose beyond that money.

So I think you can aspire for more and still go out of your way to realize what the expectations game is.