“What really matters for your happiness is not your circumstances It's the gap between your circumstances and your expectations," says Morgan Housel.

Morgan, a bestselling author and former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Motley Fool, joins us to discuss how to optimize your happiness in a world that’s so fragile to chance, plus:

- Morgan’s powerful personal story (~00:09)

- How to balance uncertainty & control (~09:01)

- How Morgan worked though survivor’s guilt (~13:09)

- Why happiness depends on expectations (~16:10)

- How to realistically measure your happiness (~20:46)

- The delicate relationship between money & happiness (~26:26)

- How to incentivize people to live healthier (~31:42)

- How to find joy in the mundane (~38:41)

- How to balance optimism & pessimism (~44:13)

- What changes Morgan has made to his own life (~48:05)

- What Morgan feels grateful for today (~49:44)

Referenced in the episode:

- Morgan's book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes.

- Morgan's previous bestseller, The Psychology Of Money.

- Morgan's website.

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