Morgan Housel

And sometimes a couple hours later, they'll email you and say, God, I'm so sorry that I said X, Y, and Z. After I thought about it, that probably offended you.

And 99% of the time, I'm like, I didn't think about it whatsoever.

So the idea that most people, they don't have the bandwidth to think about you because they're busy worrying about themselves.

And so in that situation, there are probably people in that room who did have scars, did have birthmarks, did have ugly sweaters.

They're worrying about themselves and not thinking about other people.

See, this is why I like blogs more than books.

I would always do that.

I would write a blog post and a week later I'd be like, God, in that second paragraph, you know what sentence I should use?

I should use this sentence.

Well, that's the next blog.

No, I'll just go update it.

I'll just go update the blog.

Where's the book when it's printed?

It's done.

You can't go back into, yeah.

I think they were very internally benchmark focused.

Their benchmark for how well their life was doing was like health, marriage, kids, job.

It didn't leave the confines of their roof.

And you can flip that around and say some of the least happy people you met are a purely external benchmark.

How beautiful am I?