Morgan Housel

But that's who you are.

And again, I'm so grateful that people like you exist because I get to benefit from the sacrifices that you made.

Yes, I get that.

But what, from my perspective, would be a sacrifice I get to benefit from because you make great content that I listen to and whatnot.

And so I like living in a world where most people wake up in the morning and say, this isn't enough.

And I think I do that too.

I want to write more books, better books.

But if you don't have some capacity to say, look, I have ambitions.

I have goals that I want to achieve.

I want to work hard to achieve those.

I want to sacrifice to achieve those.

But I'm never going to have a good life unless I can take a step back and be like, man,

look what I have right now, even if it's not that much.

There's a very good book written by a gerontologist named Karl Pillemer.

He wrote a book called 30 Lessons for Living, where he interviewed a bunch of elderly Americans that were like 90 to 100 years old.

And he just said, tell me the secret to a good life.

You've experienced a lot of life.

Tell me what you know.

And he has a section where he says, of the thousand people who he interviewed, not a single person looking back at their life said, I wish I made more money.

Not a single person said, I wish I would picked a career that paid more money.