You want to feel a gap between what you expected and what actually happened. And the expectation side of that equation is not only important, but it’… - Morgan Housel

Having a gap between what you can technically endure versus what’s emotionally possible is an overlooked version of room for error.

There is a paradox here: people tend to want wealth to signal to others that they should be liked and admired. But in reality those other people often bypass admiring you, not because they don’t think wealth is admirable, but because they use your wealth as a benchmark for their own desire to be liked and admired.

Even within a good story, a powerful phrase or sentence can do most of the work. There is a saying that people don’t remember books; they remember sentences.