Shane Parrish

I remember reading this thing and I don't know who said it, but it was basically boiled down to, remember there was a time where you wanted what you have now.

How did you feel after Same As Ever came out in relation to College of Money?

And the reason I ask this is this relates to anybody who had a massive success, and then all of a sudden, they're back on stage again.

Can you change your reference point if intentionally?

Can you go into this and reset the bar so it's not psychology of money?

My bar is like, I want to sell 100 copies of the book.

I'm glad you kept writing.

I mean, I feel like I can paralyze a lot of people.

If you have such an overwhelming success on your first book, you might not want to keep going.

But I personally, for whatever it's worth, think your writing keeps getting better and better.

You probably would have said great book.

How does our social group impact our desires and how should we think about our social group in relation to spending money?

We keep coming back to happiness.

Is that something we should be optimizing for?

One of the things I admire about you as your friend is that you've built this life that is just totally authentic to you.

What advice do you have for other people about going about building this life that's authentic to them, discovering who they are as a person and how they can use finances as a tool to accomplish that?

Oh, yeah.

But I also admired that you just didn't care.

You didn't give a fuck about what other people thought.

Yeah.