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Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity. – Sebastian Junger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” – Sebastian Junger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“Everyone encourages you to grow up to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount society’s bad moods.” – Paul Graham
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Twain
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“The cure for imposter syndrome is to realize that all the other people are just convincing imposters, too.” – Alison Gopnik
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.” – Niall Ferguson
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“Survival is the ultimate performance measure.” – Vicki TenHaken
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.” – Gordon Livingston