Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness

podcast to figure out what will happen in the future, we typically make

guesswork predictions and look to particular periods in the past that seem like

potential parallels. My guest says that to figure out what will happen next and how

best to navigate that coming landscape, the best

things to consider are those that have been true in every time, and will be true until the end of it.

Morgan Houssel is a venture capitalist and the author of Same As Ever, A Guide to What Never Changes.

Today on the show, we talk about the ideas and principles that never change that can help you

be successful in an ever-changing world, including how the biggest risk

are those you can't see, how the idea of compound

interest applies beyond your finances, how your expectations can sabotage your

happiness, why you need to learn to accept that things are supposed to be hard

and how success can lead to failure.

Morgan also shares his rubric for choosing your reading, what genres of books he

finds most useful for improving long-term thinking, and two books he especially

recommends for broadening your perspective.

After the show.

All right, Morgan House, and welcome back to the show.

Thanks so much for having me back, appreciate it.

See, our new book out called Same As Ever, a Guide to What Never Changes.

In the introduction of this book, you note that Jeff Bizos says that he's often asked

what's going to change in the next 10 years? And that he says, quote, I almost never get asked

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