Morgan Housel

And it makes him feel inferior.

And he says this.

And I had to tell him one day, I was like, look, if you are who you are, a good husband, a good father, hilarious, so much fun to hang out with, you've probably earned nine and a half out of 10 friend points that I'm willing to give you.

If you also happen to be a successful entrepreneur, I might bump you up to like 9.7 out of 10 from 9.

But don't pretend like it makes that much difference.

And I know, I'm sure you know,

many rich entrepreneurs who are the most insufferable, arrogant people that you don't want to spend five minutes with.

That's what a perfect guy is.

fix your cars, you help the community.

Like people love that, that, that persona.

People love that.

Like, you know, from, um,

James Clear is, you know, if you want to talk about book sales, I mean, he's in a completely different league than I am for nonfiction.

Of the five or whatever people who've sold more nonfiction books, he's at the top.

And he's one of the nicest, humblest people you can ever meet.

One of the most caring people you can ever meet.

James and I have only met in person maybe three times.

So I would be lying if I said he's one of my closest friends.

But whenever I have a question about books, and this goes back to before I wrote Psychology and Money, and he was a big dog and I was a nobody.

And I would send him a text and he would write me back a novel.