All The Different Ways Your Life Could Have Turned Out
The Morgan Housel Podcast
Morgan Housel
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Everyone knows one version of the world -- the one that's actually happened. But that's just one of infinitive possibilities that could have occurred. I asked ChatGPT to write different versions of how my life could have ended up, and was stunned by the results. I'd be you'd have the same experience.
Thanks to my friends at 10 East -- check out 10east.co.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by my friends at 10 East. |
| 0:03.3 | 10 East is an investing platform for sophisticated investors to access the private markets. |
| 0:08.6 | It's run by a great group of people, and it brings the benefits of having your own family |
| 0:12.7 | office without the cost and the headaches of doing so. |
| 0:16.5 | 10 East is a membership platform you can find deals across private markets, in credit and real estate and equity. The principals and partners at 10 East is a membership platform you can find deals across private markets in credit and real estate and equity. |
| 0:22.6 | The principals and partners at 10 East are investing their own money in these deals themselves. |
| 0:27.6 | To learn more, please check out 10east.co. |
| 0:30.6 | That's the number 10East.co. Let me read to you a quick story that I read to you a quick story that I read in the |
| 0:44.9 | Wall Street Journal several months ago. It's 1931 and a boy and girl, both about seven years |
| 0:52.4 | old, are playing on a swing set in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 0:56.2 | A stray dog appears, and without warning, charges. |
| 1:00.5 | The children try to fight the dog off. |
| 1:03.1 | Somehow the boy is unscathed, but the dog bites the girl. |
| 1:07.7 | She contracts rabies, and, not long after, dies. The boy lives. His name was Charlie Munger. |
| 1:18.7 | That little story is from Jason's Wig of the Wall Street Journal, telling the rare story about Munger |
| 1:23.7 | that I think many of us had not heard before, but potentially the most important story |
| 1:28.0 | of Munger's life. And Jason talked to Charlie after he heard this story and asked him a simple |
| 1:34.3 | question. Jason said to Charlie, what do you think of people who attribute their success solely to |
| 1:40.5 | their own brilliance and hard work. And Munger replied, |
| 1:44.6 | I think that's nonsense. |
| 1:46.9 | That damn dog wasn't three inches from me. |
| 1:49.9 | All my life I've wondered. |
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