About This Book

- 📚 **Timeless Wisdom**: Human behavior has remained consistent throughout history, offering valuable lessons that can guide our future decisions, regardless of changing circumstances. - 🔍 **Incentives Matter**: People often act against their better judgment due to powerful incentives, whether financial, cultural, or social, leading to behaviors that can perpetuate unsustainable trends. - ⏳ **Long-Term Thinking**: Success requires patience and the ability to adapt; understanding that the future is complex and unpredictable is crucial for effective long-term planning. - 🌍 **Experience Shapes Views**: People often change their beliefs and preferences in response to hardship, revealing how unexpected challenges can shift perspectives and priorities. - 📖 **Focus on the Enduring**: Prioritize learning from timeless truths and permanent information over fleeting trends, as this knowledge compounds and provides a solid foundation for navigating life’s uncertainties.

Top Highlights

• Future fortunes are imagined in a vacuum, but reality is always lived with the good and bad taken together, competing for attention.
• Our life is indeed the same as it ever was. . . . The same physiological and psychological processes that have been man’s for hundreds of thousands of years still endure. —Carl Jung The wise in all ages have always said the same thing, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way, too, acted alike, and done just the ...
• This is a book of short stories about what never changes in a changing world.
• History is filled with surprises no one could have seen coming. But it’s also filled with so much timeless wisdom.
• You’d see overconfidence and shortsightedness that remind you of people’s behavior today.