The Psychology of Money
Nineteen short stories proving that financial success is more about temperament than intellect. The gap between good and bad outcomes is almost entirely behavioral. Housel argues you need to know yourself before you can know the market, and that getting wealthy and staying wealthy are completely different skills. The decade's defining finance book, born from a blog post that wouldn't stop spreading.
Housel's nineteen chapters make one point apiece, and several make the same one: luck matters, tails drive everything, staying rich differs from getting rich. Each lesson arrives via the identical move, a counterintuitive anecdote followed by a tidy moral, until the book feels like a blog's greatest hits, which is what it is. Useful, breezy, and gone from memory in a week.
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