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  • Same as Ever

  • Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
  • By: Morgan Housel
  • Narrated by: Chris Hill
  • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (297 ratings)

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Same as Ever

By: Morgan Housel
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Summary

When planning for the future we often ask, “What will the economy be doing this time next year?” Or, “What will be different ten years from now?”

But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable.

Instead, we should be asking a different question:

What will be the same ten years from now?

What will be the same one hundred years from now?

Knowledge of the things that never change is more useful, and more important, than an uncertain prediction of an unknowable future.

In Same As Ever, bestselling author Morgan Housel shares 24 short stories about the ways that life, behaviour, and business will always be the same.

Armed with this knowledge of the unchanging, you will have a powerful new ability to think about risk, opportunity, and how to navigate the uncertainty of the future.

As you see familiar themes repeat again and again in the years ahead, you’ll find yourself nodding and saying, “Yep, same as ever.”

©2023 Morgan Housel (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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An endless stream of valuable quotes & guidance

Very well presented. Lots of common sense & a fair amount of insight too. An endless stream of valuable quotes & guidance.

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Good follow up

Very good narrator, thankfully they managed to cut out his swallowing and breathing (which was unbearable in the first book), This book has many great chapters and some not so good, but for the money it is an interesting listen.

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Well worth a listen.

Full of wise words, interesting stories and thought provoking facts. The sort of book that I imagine will still read true 100years from now. This guy gets it.

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Great book well read

Great book well read really enjoyed it would highly recommend it why not give it a go?

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Great book

Will definitely relisten over and over again. So many great lessons / reminders. My favourite two finance books are now by the same author!

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Incredible

So many unique and interesting ways of looking at the world. I couldn’t recommend this book highly enough.

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This is the most important book i ever have read. Truly recommend this book. Man thans

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It is the most realistic book about the world.

- Things that never change are important in an ever-changing world.
- You can't go to the moon by crossing your fingers and hoping for the best.
- The first secret to happiness is low expectations.
- Incredible things happen because of boring statistics. The average person should experience a miracle once a month.
- People don't want accuracy - they want certainty. Thinking in probabilities is rare.
- The best story wins - not the best idea. Masters of storytelling are called comedians.
- The world is driven by forces that cannot be measured. Logic is a concept invented by men, and ignored by the universe.
- Stability is destabilising. Calm plants the seeds of crazy.
- Construction requires skilled engineers; demolition requires only a sledgehammer.
- If you take a good idea, and push it too far, you get a very bad idea.
- Plan like a pessimist and dream like an optimist.
- You waste years by not being able to waste hours.
- There are no permanent advantages.
- All innovation is hard to predict and easy to overlook.
- Moral boundaries can be extended with incentives.
- Mastering simplicity might make you look like an ignorant. But there are no points awarded for complexity.
- Patience is stubbornness in disguise

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Interesting and easy to listen to

I found this book interesting and easy to listen to, even though it’s very American-centric

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Well written with valuable insights

This book has clearly had a lot of research go into it to extract the lessons we can learn by looking at the past.
This book is actually a culmination of many works from many people rather than 1 work from 1 person, this book could not have been produced if it was not for the previous 2 Millenia.

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A favourite of mine.

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