Morgan Housel

I felt like I had a great life, loved what I did, made enough money for my family to be totally happy and have some sense of independence.

And then I wrote a book 15 years into it that I never expected to do anything, and the publisher didn't expect to do anything, but massively increased the trajectory of my career.

And

It felt great.

It felt amazing for, I want to say a year.

And then it became, this is just where I'm at now.

I think what, the reason happiness is a fleeting emotion, which it is, most people are never happy for more than a short period of time.

It's a great emotion, but it's always fleeting, is because what makes you happy is surprise.

It's experiencing something that you genuinely did not expect.

And so when I had this bump in my career, there was a period of surprise.

I never expected this to happen.

And then after a period of time, it was like, okay, now I'm used to this trajectory and this is where we're at.

So I think even when you're on a higher trajectory, you can get used to it very quickly.

But even if you're on this, like even if you're still, so there's a hedge fund called Renaissance Technologies.

It's the most successful hedge funds ever existed.

No way.

I've never even heard of it.

So it's not open to outside investors.

It's pretty much only employees get to invest in it.

And it is in a universe of its own.