Morgan Housel

And I, uh,

I wonder in that moment if he had a couple seconds of realizing he was about to die and his life flashes before his eyes.

And I imagine just knowing him, the life he lived, if his life flashed before his eyes, he was probably like,

fuck yeah, I did it.

Like I did some cool things.

And so like, so what are you going to regret?

And I've been a big saver my whole life, my whole adult life.

And if I were in that situation tomorrow, heaven forbid, I would not have the regrets for the trips I didn't take and whatnot, because I would take so much pleasure knowing that because I saved my wife and kids are going to be okay.

Nothing would matter more to me than that.

And I would massively regret it if I was staring down that barrel, so to speak, knowing that not only am I gone, but my wife and kids are in trouble now because that would leave me just overwhelmed with regrets.

So it is never as simple as being like live for today or save for tomorrow.

It's always just what are you likely to regret at some point in the future?

It could be a year from now.

It can be on your deathbed 70 years from now, whatever it is.

Always thinking about your capacity for regret, what you are likely to regret.

And my regret is probably different than yours.

Very different from mine was from Kip's.

And so I think that's how I think about it.

You have to think constantly about what you're likely to regret in the future.

Someone asked me about this recently and I thought it was interesting.