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Good Life Project

The Surprising Secret to Finding Calm in a Stormy Life | Morgan Housel

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to keep up in a world of dizzying change? My guest Morgan Housel offers a surprising solution: focus on timeless truths. In his book Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, Morgan reveals how embracing enduring aspects of human nature can be our guide.


We discuss how masterful storytelling moves hearts more than facts, how to balance uncertainty with possibility, and why there’s no formula for “the good life” except the one you design yourself.


Join us for a fascinating conversation on connecting with wisdom as relevant today as ever before. You’ll learn to build lives not on shifting trends but on the bedrock of eternal human truths.


You can find Morgan at: Website | LinkedIn | Episode Transcript


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0:00.0

In order to make a mark in the world, you don't need to necessarily uncover something new.

0:04.4

You don't need to invent a new product or uncover a new fact.

0:08.4

There is so much ground to move in just taking what's already out there

0:12.3

and telling a better story around it.

0:14.0

Just telling it in a more compelling way.

0:16.0

And there is so much potential in doing that.

0:18.0

And the barriers to entry are so much lower than inventing something new or discovering something new.

0:22.0

Just taking what is already known and telling it in a more lower than inventing something new or discovering something new.

0:22.6

Just taking what is already known and telling it in a more easy to understand, captivating way.

0:27.6

So have you ever felt like the world is changing so fast you can barely keep up that no matter how hard you try you still feel kind of lost in a sea of uncertainty.

0:40.0

You are not alone when most of us feel this our default is usually to try and attack the change to lock it down to make things certain

0:49.2

Which in the end is a futile quest and it also distracts us from focusing on what really matters

0:55.6

in those moments what is still there and can help us come back to a place of

0:59.8

peace and ease even in the face of profound disruption.

1:04.2

So what should we be doing instead?

1:07.1

My guest today, Morgan Houseill offers a pretty surprising solution.

1:11.9

In his latest book, Same as Ever, a guide to what never changes, Morgan just completely

1:16.8

flips the script on our fixation with change.

1:20.1

He asks, what if instead of obsessing over the newest trends or changes, we focused on timeless

1:25.8

truths of human nature that endure amidst it all?

1:30.3

And as Morgan puts it, rather than pretending that we can predict the changes ahead, let's focus on things so indelible across history that we can confidently expect them in our future.

1:41.5

It's a really powerful reframe I found. So Morgan

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