Psychology of Money in Just 10 Minutes（原声文稿）

You probably know Mike Tyson, one of the greatest boxers of all time. In the late 90s, he was unstoppable. He made over $400 million during his career.

mansions, exotic tigers, a fleet of luxury cars, and a $2 million bathtub.

Yeah, a bathtub. But by 2003, he was bankrupt. Not just broke, $23 million in debt.

$50,000 retire richer than people making six figures?

recently, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Let's begin. 1. You're not fully in control Alright, let's get real. You're not fully in control of your success.

hard enough, make the right choices, and grind every day, success is guaranteed.

But in reality, luck and risk play a way bigger role than we want to admit.

Back in high school, Bill Gates had a best friend named Kent Evans.

with computers, and had huge dreams of building a tech empire together.

tragically died in a mountaineering accident. And just like that, his story ended.

Meanwhile, Bill Gates went on to become, well, Bill Gates.

country that had a computer in the 1960s, a time when computers were rare.

That one lucky break gave him a head start most people never got. Now, did he work hard? Absolutely. Was he a genius?

out the same if he had been born in a different city? A different time? Probably not.

if I just do the same thing, I'll succeed too. But we ignore the invisible factors. The lucky breaks. The right connections. The timing.

Same thing with failure.

Take Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest stock traders of all time. He made millions. Lost it all.

Made it back again. and then lost everything one final time. The Great Depression wiped him out completely.

He went from being one of the richest traders in history to having nothing.

So what's the lesson here? Success is never a hundred percent skill. Failure is never 100% stupidity.

That doesn't mean you should just give up and let fate decide your future.

luck and risk exist, and they affect us all in ways we can't predict.

At the end of the day, you can't control luck, and you can't avoid risk completely.

yourself in the best position possible, and be ready for whatever happens.

Number two, getting wealthy versus staying wealthy. We love stories of people who made it.

garage startup into a billion dollar company. The stock trader who bet big and made a fortune overnight.

The influencer who suddenly blew up and started making crazy money.

But have you noticed something? A lot of those people lose it just as fast.

Because getting rich and staying rich are two completely different skills.

heard stories of celebrities, athletes, or business broke? Mike Tyson lost it all by 2003.

Nicholas Cage professional investors have gone bankrupt after making fortunes.

build wealth, you have to take risks.

You start a business, bigger paychecks, take bold leaps that other people books online.

Elon Musk dumping his PayPal money into Tesla here's where people mess up.

Once they get money, they keep playing assume the The money will keep flowing in forever, and then it all collapses.

opposite mindset, humility, patience, and knowing when to stop gambling.

The founder of FTX, Sam Bankman Freed, is a perfect example.

He built FTX. It became one of the biggest crypto exchanges in just a few years. At one point, he was worth $26 billion. But what did he do? He got greedy.

He took reckless risks, overleveraged, and in 2022 bankrupt, arrested.

Everything gone. Now, compare that to someone like Warren Buffett.

never takes crazy risks.

He hates losing money more to survive long enough and wealth takes care of itself.

have to protect your wealth long enough to let it grow.

Because the goal isn't game. There's a reason why most lottery winners go broke. They think they've made it.

in random businesses, trusting the wrong people.

They don't realize that keeping money requires a completely different mindset. Number three, save money for freedom. Alright, let's talk about saving money. I know. I just lost half of you.

Oh great. Here comes the boring stop buying Starbucks coffee speech.

people think of saving money as delayed spending.

later, or I'll save so I can go on that dream vacation.

isn't about buying more stuff, it's about buying freedom. Let me ask you something. What's more valuable than money? The answer is options. Control over your time.

The ability to say no when you want to. I know a guy who got stuck in a terrible job. Toxic workplace, crazy hours, boss from hell. But he couldn't leave. Why?

Because he had zero savings.

in a cycle where quitting wasn't an option.

Now compare that to another friend who saved aggressively for a few years.

When his job started draining the life out of him, guess what? He walked away. No stress. No panic. Just, I'm out.

There's a term for this. The F.U.

Fund. Basically, it's a pile of money that lets you walk away from bad situations. Your job sucks. You don't have to stay. Your landlord raises your rent.

Toxic relationship? You can walk away without worrying about rent. And you don't need to be a millionaire for this.

you in a completely different position in life.

If most people who say they can't afford to save, actually can. It's just that saving isn't exciting. Spending is fun. You get a new car? People notice.

You post it on Instagram. Everyone hypes you up. But saving?

because you quietly transferred $500 into your emergency fund. Most people think getting rich means buying expensive things.

But in reality, the richest people in the world focus on buying back their time.

Because the best thing money can buy is not needing more of it.

2014, there was a janitor named Ronald Reed.

Regular guy, at all. People probably thought he was barely scraping by.

Then one day, he died at 92 years old and left behind $8 million. Everyone lost their minds.

Reed was quietly building wealth. No one saw his wealth, because it was invisible. Wealth is the money you don't spend.

from knowing you're financially secure, even if nobody else sees it.

Think about it. When someone pulls up in a brand new Ferrari, what do we assume? Damn, that guy must be loaded. But we don't actually know that.

All we know is he spent $300,000 on a car. What we don't see is how much he actually has left. He could be drowning in debt for all we know.

Look, I'm not saying don't buy nice things, you should enjoy your money. But flexing for others at the cost of your future?

That's a losing game. If you take just one thing from this, let it be this.

Looking rich and being rich are two completely different games.

Looking rich is easy. Swipe a credit card, finance a car, buy expensive clothes. Anyone can do that. Being rich?

making way less retire early, it's because of this one simple difference.

is not your car. Wealth is the money you didn't spend.

Not because he can't afford a mansion, but because he values freedom over flexing.

thing straight. Money isn't just numbers. It's feelings.

lot of experts talk about money like it's just cold hard math.

and save Z percent of your income, you'll be financially set.

But here's the truth. We're not robots. We're emotional creatures.

reasonable is more important than being perfectly rational.

based on emotions. Let's say you're investing.

What is the most rational thing to do? Put all your money in the stock market and never touch it. But what happens when the market crashes? Your emotions take over.

40%, and suddenly that logical plan doesn't feel so logical anymore. You panic. You sell. And congrats.

You just locked in your losses. That's why most investors fail.

but because they can't handle the emotions that come with it.

Understand the difference between reasonable and rational thinking.

strategy has the highest return over 50 years, so I'll stick to it no matter what. While reasonable thinking is, this strategy makes sense.

I'll leave some money in cash to feel secure. See the difference? One is perfect in theory. The other works in real life.

investor ever, doesn't have the highest returning strategy.

high-reward things like crypto or speculative tech stocks.

Why? Because he invests in a way that lets him sleep at night. He stays reasonable, not just rational.

That's why he's still in the game after 60-plus years.

was obsessed with finding the best investment.

every finance book, trying to optimize every dollar.

overwhelmed by all the choices that he never actually invested. He got stuck in analysis paralysis.

into a simple index fund and never looked at it again.

Guess who made more money? The one who actually did something. Find what works for you.

The best financial plan isn't the one with the highest return on paper. It's the one you can actually stick with.

emotions, and the best financial plan is one that lets you live in peace.

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