## Metadata * Author: [[Morgan Housel]] * ASIN: B084HJSJJ2 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084HJSJJ2 ## Highlights “A genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.” —Napoleon — location: [24](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=24) ^ref-19162 --- financial success is not a hard science. It’s a soft skill, where — location: [80](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=80) ^ref-15386 --- how you behave is more important than what you know. — location: [81](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=81) ^ref-46943 --- The lowest-income households in the U.S. on average spend $412 a year on lotto tickets, four times the amount of those in the highest income groups. Forty percent of Americans cannot come up with $400 in an emergency. — location: [210](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=210) ^ref-22935 --- The median American home increased from 983 square feet in 1950 to 2,436 square feet in 2018. — location: [931](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=931) ^ref-58490 --- “Fevers turn on the body’s immune system. They help the body fight infection. Normal fevers between 100° and 104° f are good for sick children.” — location: [1172](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=1172) ^ref-17758 --- experience leads to overconfidence more than forecasting ability. — location: [1269](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=1269) ^ref-59877 --- “All of us,” he said, “are walking around with an illusion—an illusion that history, our personal history, has just come to an end, that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.” — location: [1562](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=1562) ^ref-12007 --- Pessimism just sounds smarter and more plausible than optimism. — location: [1829](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=1829) ^ref-63044 --- John Stuart Mill wrote in the 1840s: “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.” — location: [1847](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=1847) ^ref-29911 --- The average new American home now has more bathrooms than occupants. Nearly half have four or more bedrooms, up from 18% in 1983. — location: [2488](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084HJSJJ2&location=2488) ^ref-53401 ---