Morgan Housel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I saw them at a conference and never met them, never exchanged a word with them.
And I came up and I said, oh, I'm Morgan Housel.
It's nice to meet you.
And he went, who?
I said, oh, I'm Morgan.
I'm a writer for The Motley Fool.
And he basically swatted me away and kept walking.
Looked through you.
And I will never forget that.
It made me feel so small.
And the fact that I looked up to him so much at that time.
And honestly, it was a know-nothing event.
I'm not going to pretend it was that big a deal, but I'll never forget it.
People will never forget
how they made you feel, good or bad, in that moment.
In his mind, I was just a little rat getting in his way that he needed to brush aside.
In my mind, he's a hero.
It's intoxicating.
And I think it's the idea that like every judgment is a confession.
When you judge other people, you're actually confessing something about yourself.