Morgan Housel

Even if you can't perfectly control it, it's similar to like,

I want to eat a good diet.

Of course, I want to eat healthy food.

I'm not going to pretend for a second that I don't want Oreos and ice cream because they're great and they're always going to taste great.

And so I'm never going to get to a point where I say, I don't want a nicer house.

I'm a human.

And so are you and so is everyone else.

You're always going to have those feelings, but you can recognize the game.

You can recognize the voice that's talking to you.

and realize when that voice lies to you and when it's telling you a story that is either false or just a little bit incomplete.

I think if you had to say, who is the happiest person in the world on average, not like naming a person, but if you had to describe the life of who's the happiest person out there, my guess is it's probably something close to a middle-class family that lives in a three-bedroom house and has a five-year-old car, but they have an amazing marriage, tons of friends,

they're in good health, but they are by any other statistic, ordinary.

And at the end of their life, more than the people who are very, very successful, that ordinary family is going to look back when they're on their deathbed, when they're 95 years old and be like, that was good.

No.

Here's the truth.

I think on the nature nurture spectrum,

Most of what we believe and the feelings that we have is forged at conception.

And we're just wired that way.

And there's not much we can do about it.

Some people have different aspirations.