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RWH029: Beyond Rich w/ Pico Iyer

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Importance of Inner Peace

I think that idea that you mentioned from Milton from Paradise Lost of the mind can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven or whichever way around it is, I always get it the wrong way around. Part of what the epilogue of my book is about is really just this sense that if you're not optimizing in some way for peace of mind, then you're in deep trouble. And so part of any rich life has to include equanimity. You know, I spend a lot of time still reading Marcus Aurelius, you know, the Roman Emperor who was there on the battlefield for however many years. And this is exactly what he was saying too.

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