Morgan Housel

I wrote 4,000 blog posts over my career and the one that meant the most to me by far

It was a post I wrote in 2017.

It's called Overcoming Your Demons, where I wrote about I grew up with a very severe stutter.

I really struggled to speak until my, honestly, early 30s.

Really had a hard time.

And if you go back to my childhood, I could barely speak.

It was very difficult for me to get a sentence out, severe stutter.

And I wrote about that process and in part how I overcame it and whatnot.

And I was really hesitant to post it.

A, because it felt like a look at me post.

And it felt like, even though this wasn't the intention, it felt like a fishing for sympathy post.

But I think one of the points that I made in the post was like,

everyone's got their demons and you usually don't know about it.

Actually, a lot of people stutter, but you usually don't know about it because most stutters just don't speak that much.

So I guarantee you, you have a friend or a coworker who you think is just quiet and they're not quiet.

They just don't want to speak because they struggle to speak.

And so that's an example of like, a lot of people have demons that you just don't know about and everyone has their own version of that.

And people love it when you expose your own because it makes them feel less alone.

I mean, one of the most common feelings is everyone else is crushing it in life and I'm struggling because all you can see is they're outside.

You can see basically the act that they want you to see, but you are aware of nothing more than the thoughts that are running through your head, the doubts, the anxieties, the worries, the things that didn't get exposed.