Morgan Housel

But there's a million different components of your life and my life and everybody's life that are invisible.

And most people, because of self-preservation or because they're trying to get ahead in life, will not disclose what the bad parts of their life are.

Right.

Of course, everybody does this.

I do this.

You probably do it.

Everyone does that because either they don't want to admit them to themselves or they don't want to talk about it because they think other people are going to judge them for the bad parts of their life.

So it's very easy to look at other people's lives and have a sense of like, oh, well, theirs is better than mine because all you can see is what they are advertising.

And because of that, it's very easy to be jealous or envious of people and say, if only I had their life, things would be better.

And part of it is good.

Part of it's good for me to look at and be like, man, Stephen's been so successful doing this kind of content.

Maybe I should do.

That's motivation.

But once I say...

their life looks better than mine.

And if only I had what they had, I would be happier is a very treacherous path to go down.

No hesitation there.

My guess too is that if you said, I'm going to quit the podcast, quit all this, close the business down, you would be beside yourself with anxiety and depression.

And so it's less about like, is doing this, does doing this make you happy?

I think the better answer is not doing this would make you miserable.