Morgan Housel on Inflation, Incentives, and Investing through Bear Markets
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🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The vast vast majority of his net worth came in his elderly years. |
| 0:06.1 | And the takeaway from that for me is that, well look, if Buffett had retired at age 60, |
| 0:10.1 | like a normal person might, no one in this room would have ever heard of him. |
| 0:14.6 | All of his success came in his 70s, 80s, and early 90s. |
| 0:18.9 | And that's really important because we spend all this time talking about how he values |
| 0:22.1 | companies. |
| 0:23.1 | But the whole secret to his success is not that he's good at picking companies, it's not |
| 0:26.4 | even that he's a good investor, it's that he's been a good investor for 80 years. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Chris Hill and that's Morgan Howsle, author of the International Best Selling Book, |
| 0:37.4 | The Psychology of Money. |
| 0:39.8 | When I interviewed Howsle in front of a live audience, we talked about investing through |
| 0:43.4 | bear markets, the power of incentives, and what he's working on for his next book. |
| 0:48.4 | But I kicked off the conversation by asking about what he's encountered since writing |
| 0:53.7 | The Psychology of Money. |
| 0:58.2 | I know that the number of copies that your book sold is surprising to you. |
| 1:03.5 | So let's just put that aside. |
| 1:05.8 | In terms of reaction to the book, whether it's from financial media, institutions, people |
| 1:12.2 | you've met, what has surprised you the most in terms of the reaction? |
| 1:17.4 | One thing I think is interesting is a big theme of the book is that everyone's different |
| 1:21.7 | and has different goals and different risk tolerances and different aspirations, different |
| 1:26.3 | incomes, family situations. |
| 1:28.0 | And because of that, no two people, even if you are the same age, same education, same |
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