Human Nature

“I do think it's in human nature to have at least parts of the population that want to have conflict, that enjoy conflict, that want to you know, increase their sphere of influence sometimes You know, that is political. Sometimes it's geographical. Sometimes yo…”

“I think I realized that in order to be a world-class investor, finances are actually secondary to human nature. Financial trends change every decade, every handful of decades. Something will, some new thing will pop up, you know, SPACs are this new thing. So l…”

“We're built for progress. We're not built for arrival. We're built for progress toward goals, right?”

“We are designed in such a way that our reward system motivates us to produce more effort. At whatever level, like, no matter how good our situation is, we are designed to always try to want to make it better, and so we only get reward when things improve, rath…”

“If I were to divide all the money on the planet equally amongst everybody tomorrow, one will work harder than another day after tomorrow, one will be more skilled at a certain thing. And we will come back to where we are today, maybe not in five, 10 years, but…”

“I think that human beings, we are naturally moderate. Like, we are made to be moderate. And so, we're in an extreme moment right now. But I don't think we are made to be able to be able to maintain extremes for long periods of time.”

“Literature fiction even is written by people and these people leave clues about human nature embedded in the literature, even if it's fiction. So reading fiction and mining it for truths about human nature is what Gerard did.”

“Man naturally desires not only to be loved, but to be lovely, and by love, Smith didn't just mean romantic, he meant respect and honor, et cetera, and lovely, he meant worthy of honor, worthy of respect. Think about, thinking about that as an aspect of a centr…”