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When asked, “You seem extremely happy and content. What’s your secret to living a happy life?” ninety-eight-year-old Charlie Munger replied:
> The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations you’re going to be miserable your whole life. You want to have reasonable expectations and take life’s results, good and bad, as they happen with a certain amount of stoicism.
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
Get Them To “Say No To Say Yes.” I was always amazed at how often the fur coat dealer got people to buy stuff by saying “no.” He knew people had been trained to say “no” in response to “you don’t want anything else do you?” But this actually turns a “no” into “yes.” So when upselling, the question translates to: You don’t want anything [besides what I just offered] do you? Clever salesmanship. So let the nos (yeses) roll in.
$100M Money Models: How to Make Money
Alex Hormozi
There is plank walk at 30.
I viewed my 20s as a race to get it all figured out / in place before 30. Society does this to us.
I’m 35 & single.
I started a company.
I’m in the best shape of my life.
Life doesn’t end when conventional media says it does.
Things I Know at 35,
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