The Mark of Intelligence - The Ability to Say Yes to Everything

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i was talking to my daughter this morning, who's home from college this week. And i was talking to her about saying yes to things, and saying, i'll do that. Because there are these invitations to saraan dippety where you want to buy in. But otherwis, if you just stay home and you don't do anything, you're cutting yourself off from these invitationsto sara dippety. So you always want to say yes. And then i pause, and then i say, except when you really want to say no a lot,. because then i'm geting toin pat will look at the strength of someone like buffet, which is his

William Green is a journalist and author of the book “RICHER, WISER, HAPPIER: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life.” — a book that draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with many of the world’s super-investors to demonstrate that key insights for building wealth apply to life as well. You can follow William on Twitter https://twitter.com/williamgreen72 and get his book at https://www.amazon.com/Richer-Wiser-Happier-Greatest-Investors/dp/1501164856 Show Notes:

From Journalism to Investing
Obsessiveness required to play and win a game
Behavioral biases
Role of patience in investing
Stoicism, and dealing with uncertainty
Reading authors like Henry James
Saying YES to serendipity
Being present in the moment
Delaying gratification
“When I fall, I shall rise”
Getting out of your own way
Staying away from the games that don't suit you
How body posture can affect you psychologically
Giving pleasure to your creator
Not knowing the truth

Books Mentioned:

Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and in Life; by William Green
Happy: Why More Or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine; by Derren Brown