196 - 10 Timeless Lessons for Crypto Investors With Morgan Housel
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Bankless, Morgan Housel. Morgan has written "The Psychology of Money", and most recently "Same As Ever" which discuss the dynamics and psychology around money and markets.
In this episode Morgan drops lesson after lesson that you can apply to your own investing strategies and life broadly. It's a masterclass that is sure to have you reflecting on the decisions you make as we enter what may possibly be the next bull market.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
6:49 History Always Repeats
11:44 Can We Break The Cycle?
16:49 THE BEAR MARKET
21:20 Psychology Of Investing
26:45 The Value Of Hard Things
29:26 Attaching Identity To Ideas
36:52 Markets Have Memory
42:23 The Key To Being Happy
47:27 Competing Against Yourself
55:32 Our Relationship With Money
58:51 The Power Of Incentives
1:04:48 Don't Try Too Hard
1:11:19 Investing Strategies
1:15:09 The Value of Imperfection
1:20:43 Optimism and Pessimism
1:24:41 Crypto's Barbell Thesis
1:27:53 Good Things Happen Slow, Bad Things Happen Fast
1:33:27 Final Bit Of Advice
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RESOURCES
Book: https://www.morganhousel.com/
Morgan: https://twitter.com/morganhousel
Morgan Last on Bankless: https://youtu.be/9VflkmluTVQ
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| 0:00.0 | Look, I'm a very optimistic guy, but the answer is no. There's absolutely no hope whatsoever. |
| 0:04.2 | I would bet so heavily that a hundred years from now we're going to have bubbles that |
| 0:11.5 | would look exactly like they did in 1999, exactly like they would have during the housing |
| 0:15.5 | bubble, like pick your bubble a hundred years from now, two hundred years from now, that's |
| 0:18.9 | going to be the case. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:31.9 | This is how to get started, how to get better, how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:35.2 | This is Ryan Sean Adams and I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become |
| 0:39.8 | more bankless. Guys, a lot has changed in crypto throughout the cycles, but some things haven't. |
| 0:46.4 | We're here to talk about the things that haven't changed. We've got timeless investing, |
| 0:50.6 | wisdom, applied to crypto from writer and investor Morgan Housel on today's episode. |
| 0:55.8 | A few different things you need to know for different parts of the cycle. We've got lessons |
| 0:59.2 | for the bear market, lessons for the bull market, and lessons for the apathy market a few |
| 1:03.8 | takeaways for you. |
| 1:04.8 | Number one, why the bear market was painful, necessary, and yet good. Number two, why those |
| 1:10.2 | that survived the bear market now have an advantage. Number three, how to manage your brain during |
| 1:16.2 | a bull market when things get frothy. Number four, how to actually be happy no matter how much |
| 1:21.0 | wealth you have. Number five, the traps that you're going to fall into during the bull |
| 1:25.2 | market unless you know how to spot them well in advance. Number six, optimism versus pessimism, |
| 1:31.0 | how to balance them to become a better investor. David, I could have been listed ten more |
| 1:35.6 | of these because I feel like the insights per minute on this episode today were absolutely |
| 1:42.9 | off the charts. We put in the title ten timeless lessons for crypto, but the truth is there's |
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