BOOK: The Psychology of Money

好幾年前讀過這本，那時一年20-30本非小說類的嚴肅書，這本屬於可以看一遍，不需讀第二遍的好書。 今天在喜歡的Dr.Andrew Huberman PODCAST上偶然發現有Huberman對作者的采訪。 想起那時勾出來的美句。

“ Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated—is its ability to give you control over your time... Use money to gain control over your time, because not having control of your time is such a powerful and universal drag on happiness. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want to, pays the highest dividend that exists in finance.“

 

“At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.”

“Modern capitalism is a pro at two things: generating wealth and generating envy. Perhaps they go hand in hand; wanting to surpass your peers can be the fuel of hard work. But life isn’t any fun without a sense of enough. Happiness, as it’s said, is just results minus expectations.”

"Be careful who you praise and admire. Be careful who you look down upon and wish to avoid becoming."

"Daniel Kahneman once told me about the stories people tell themselves to make sense of the past. He said: Hindsight, the ability to explain the past, gives us the illusion that the world is understandable. It gives us the illusion that the world makes sense, even when it doesn’t make sense. That’s a big deal in producing mistakes in many fields."

― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money