Short Read: Save Like A Pessimist, Invest Like An Optimist

Morgan Housel | 6 minutes

Optimism and pessimism can coexist. If you look hard enough you’ll see them next to each other in virtually every successful company and successful career. They seem like opposites, but they work together to keep everything in balance.

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Do what you’re genuinely interested in and try to play to your natural strengths. A startup is so much work that you'll give up if you're not genuinely interested in it.

- Jessica Livingston, Grow the Puzzle Around You

Let's consider how beliefs in the brain are like employees at a company. This isn't a perfect analogy, but it'll get us 70% of the way there. Employees are hired because they have a job to do.

- Kevin Simler, Crony Beliefs

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