Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
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Same as Ever
A Guide to What Never Changes

Author: Morgan Housel

Narrator: Chris Hill

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 11/07/2023

Synopsis

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusion of Morgan Housel’s fascinating, useful, and highly-entertaining book.”

— Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author

From the author of the international blockbuster, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY, a powerful new tool to unlock one of life’s most challenging puzzles.

Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past.

Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change.

With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. Through a sequence of engaging stories and pithy examples, he shows how we can use our newfound grasp of the unchanging to see around corners, not by squinting harder through the uncertain landscape of the future, but by looking backwards, being more broad-sighted, and focusing instead on what is permanently true.   

By doing so, we may better anticipate the big stuff, and achieve the greatest success, not merely financial comforts, but most importantly, a life well lived.

Cover design by Christopher Parker.

About The Author

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two kids.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mitchell on November 09, 2023

Enjoyable read, but nothing new or exceptionally insightful was shared. Housel essentially compiled a summary of the ideas original to Nassim Taleb (Anti-Fragile and Skin in the Game) Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist, How Innovation Works, The Red Queen, etc), Ray Dalio (Principles), Robert Greene......more

Goodreads review by Liong on December 02, 2023

This book reminds us that the world is constantly changing but certain things never change. Reading more books will develop better filters and frameworks that will help us make better sense of the news. We should be planning like a pessimist and dreaming like an optimist. Same as Ever is a must-read f......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 26, 2023

A collection of barely insightful platitudes. Each of them could have a counter-chapter written that successfully argues the opposite concept. Although each chapter is written as rock-solid wisdom hewn from the experience of all mankind, there are hardly any truisms that aren't dependent on context;......more

Goodreads review by Akshay on November 07, 2023

Morgan Housel loves stories. The lesson he wants us to learn follows the story. I loved listening to Morgan speaking about stories and his writing style to David Perell on the Write of Passage podcast. Warren Buffett & Morgan Housel are my favourite writers and I've loved reading Annual letter to sh......more

Goodreads review by Tanja on January 03, 2024

When I finished the book, my immediate thought was, “I want to read it again”. And take notes. I shouldn’t have been surprised, I loved “the psychology of money”. This book is more “the psychology of people” - that is what never changes. We will still be driven by envy and greed in 50 or 100 or 500......more

Quotes

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusion of Morgan Housel’s fascinating, useful, and highly-entertaining book.”
— Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and New York Times bestselling author

“Morgan Housel has done it again. Same As Ever brims with wisdom and wit, and Housel has an ingenious way of selecting the perfect, unforgettable story to drive home timeless lessons about money, life, storytelling, ambition, and satisfaction. This little book contains a library's worth of wisdom.”
— Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

“This book is both profoundly thoughtful, almost impossible to put down, and really important. Housel explains how so much of what determines our fate is random, seemingly hanging from a thread—and yet, there are also universal truths that have stayed consistent over centuries. What Housel shows is how to find them.”
— Bethany McLean, bestselling coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils are Here

“Life changing insights from a fantastic story teller."
— Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Dad
 
“A must read for anyone who wants to turn history’s hindsight into their current foresight.” 
— Shane Parrish, founder of Farnam Street and author of Clear Thinking
 
“Concepts that, the sooner you get them, the sooner you’ll start living a richer and more rewarding life.”
— Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern and bestselling author of Adrift


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