Are You Going to Trade Shoes With Julia Roberts?

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I think what's going to make anybody happy by and large is like you relationship with your spouse. If you're a parent, like the health and well being and happiness of your children, your own health, that's that's 90% of your own happiness. I don't want to minimize it in the slightest, but it's so easy to overestimate how certain things will make you happy. And because it's those like core things of like, you can be there is this great article years ago. It might be getting parts of this wrong, but Julia Roberts won an Oscar then her husband cheated on her.

Morgan Housel is an author. His bestselling The Psychology of Money has sold over 2 million copies (and become one of my favorite books in the process!).

In this conversation, we spoke about innovation, reading old newspapers, maintaining curiosity, how ChatGPT will impact writers, his interview with Ryan Holiday, how to get in contact with your heroes, and much more.

(0:00) Intro

(2:25) The Ski Trip That Changed Morgan’s Life

(11:22) 90% Of Virality Is Luck

(14:06) Obsessed With Writing?

(16:05) Research Process

(19:08) Choosing What To Read

(22:53) Why Do Some Things Hit Us?

(24:32) Morgan Starstruck By Jason Zweig

(28:05) How To Get In Contact With Your Heroes

(30:59) Downsides To Fame

(34:05) Happiness & Meaning

(43:33) Free Time Post-Retirement