Morgan Housel

Bali.

You ever been to Bali?

Do you like it?

Yeah, I do, actually.

Okay, so we might differ in this.

I think Bali is...

Completely overrated.

We went there.

It's not bad, but I've been to so many other tropical places that were 10 times better.

But if you go to Bali and you post a picture on Instagram or TikTok of you going to Bali, you think at least people are going to be like, wow, you went to Bali.

That's so cool.

It's so exotic.

Super exotic.

And so there's quite a bit of that, of like the experience thing.

Is it different?

The reason I think travel can be beneficial for a lot of people is sometimes it's not even the destination of where you're going or how beautiful the destination is.

It's that you need to travel to kind of give yourself permission to detach from the rest of your life.

And so if flying to Maui is the only chance that you can have totally uninterrupted time with your spouse or your kids, you just can't do it at home.

You're too distracted at home.

Your kids are too distracted at home.