Psychologist Jonathan Haidt says people don’t really communicate on social media so much as they perform for one another. - Morgan Housel

Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.

There is the old pilot quip that their jobs are “hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

What kind of person makes their way to the top of a successful company, or a big country? Someone who is determined, optimistic, doesn’t take no for an answer, and is relentlessly confident in their own abilities. What kind of person is likely to go overboard, bite off more than they can chew, and discount risks that are blindingly obvious to others? Someone who is determined, optimistic, doesn’t take no for an answer, and is relentlessly confident in their own abilities.