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Harder than it looks, not as fun as it seems
- Most things are harder than they look and not as fun as they seem because the information we’re exposed to tends to be a highlight reel of what people want you to know about themselves to increase their own chances of success. It’s easiest to convince people that you’re special if they don’t know you well enough to see all the ways you’re not.
from How People Think by Morgan Housel
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- It’s easiest to convince people that you’re special if they don’t know you well enough to see all the ways you’re not.
from Rules, Truths, Beliefs by Morgan Housel
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- What haven’t I experienced firsthand that leaves me naive to how something works? As Jeff Immelt said, “Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it.”
from I Have A Few Questions by Morgan Housel
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- The same is true about most businesses you admire. They might seem in order from the far but within, there's always a degree of chaos present. And that's ok. That's needed. It's part of the work. We all start out blind, hit a bunch of walls until we learn how to see. We learn to see which walls to avoid, which ones to go around and which ones to br... See more
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A lot of people seem to have a necessary level of stress, and when their life is going well they make up imaginary problems to fill the void.
from Some Things I Think by Collab Fund
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Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it because the challenges faced by someone in the arena are often invisible to those in the crowd.
from The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
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