9 Timeless Lessons About Human Psychology - Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund, an investor and an author.Show more

The world continues to change, but the hairless apes that inhabit it stay the same. So there must be some laws of human psychology which remain true, no matter what time and place you're in, and today we get to go through some of the most fascinating ones.

Expect to learn the problem with the way most people make predictions, who exactly are the reasonable optimists, whether anyone was able to predict the great depression, just how different median income for families differs from the 1950s to today, why trajectory is much more important than position, why stories are more powerful than statistics and much more...

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00:00 What People Get Wrong When Making Predictions
03:50 The Fragility of History
15:35 Having a Positive Relationship with Risk
20:50 The World is Driven By Envy
25:04 Why You Can’t Base Happiness Off Wealth
32:39 The Mental Difficulty of Maintaining Success
41:56 How to Feel More Content With Life
51:58 Why People Desire Certainty
1:00:43 How Successful People Made Huge Decisions
1:07:30 How Morgan Writes His Books
1:18:40 Our Own Logic Can Lead Us Astray
1:26:15 Calmness Precedes Craziness
1:35:09 Are We Competing Against Other Generations?
1:42:10 Life Lessons From the Tallest Man Ever
1:47:07 Where to Find Morgan

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