How to Ruin Your Life
A brilliant list of terrible advice (because knowing what not to do might just be the cheat code you need.)
Sometimes, the best way to figure out what to do is to first get crystal clear on what not to do.
Imagine you’re trying to win at life, but instead of helpful advice, someone hands you a cheat sheet of bad ideas.
The kind of ideas that sound okay for half a second until you realise: oh, this is how you lose.
In today’s edition, Morgan Housel flips the script. Think of it as reverse-engineering wisdom, one very bad suggestion at a time.
It’s not a list of things to do.
It’s a mirror showing what to avoid. Simple, uncomfortable, and oddly freeing.
Read the piece: Very Bad Advice by Morgan Housel
That’s it for this week.
Manoj
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