Morgan Housel's 2020 book presenting 19 short essays on how psychology — greed, fear, ego, social comparison — shapes financial decisions more than technical knowledge does.
Establishes that financial success is predominantly a function of behavior (saving rate, patience, avoiding ruinous mistakes) rather than intelligence or analytical sophistication — and that the most important financial skill is simply keeping the game going long enough for compounding to work.
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