Strategic Stress: Discussing Morgan Housel's "Same As Ever"
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We usually talk about stress as something you need to reduce, or recover from. But there are different types of stress -- good stressors and bad stressors -- and sometimes stress drives us to accomplish things and innovate when we otherwise wouldn't. To that end, Mark and Jesse discuss Morgan Housel's book Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, in which Housel outlines the way stressors and risk taking drives us to grow achieve new things. Mark also shares a recent story about how the stress of a bookkeeping sprint at work provided the spark for him to write new software to automate a key process in his business, and save a lot of time as a result.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Mark Butler, Virtual CFO
The Money School: https://moneyschool.works
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