Welcome back to the podcast. This is episode 10. I recently heard an interview with Charlie Munger on

C. Munger of course is one of the most

quotable people you'll ever come across. He's 99 years old and as sharp as he's ever

been. And he was asked a very common question that people have been debating for centuries and that was what

is the secret to happiness and here's what he said.

That is easy because it's so simple.

Don't have a lot of envy, you don't have a lot of resentment, you don't overspend your income,

you state cheerful in spite of your troubles, you deal with reliable people and you do what you're supposed to do and

all these simple rules work so well to make your life better and they're so trite.

How old were you when you figured this out?

And about seven.

I love how he finished that.

He figured this out when he was seven years old.

Because it's so simple. That's why he

figured it out when he was so young is because what he just said is so simple and

can be summarized in just a few words. You don't need a textbook or a long novel to summarize what he just said.

It's obviously true. It's just so simple that you don't need to expand much upon it.

And that idea that you can say something really profound that hopefully

is impactful to your life in just a few words is always been really interesting to me.

I've always been a big fan of quotes.

And what's great about a quote is that the good ones pack a book's worth of information

into five words, six words, sometimes three words. I've always liked that because

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