You Can Win in Life and in Your Career

In my early 30s, I got serious about what it means to build a successful life. I didn’t want to be someone with big houses, fancy cars, and multiple divorces.

I wanted to be both rich and happy. That felt like aiming for two opposite things. Around that time, I discovered value investing. It shaped how I think, not only about money but about life itself.

To become a better value investor, I started learning across many fields, from psychology to finance. I often worried that I wasn’t becoming a specialist like most of my peers. I asked myself if I was spreading myself too thin. What I didn’t realize then was that I was laying a solid foundation for both wealth building and career growth.

Years later, I read this book, and it all made sense. It studies what sets the best investors apart. The author writes, “They look for advantages wherever they can find them: economic history, neuroscience, literature, Stoicism, Buddhism, sports, the science of habit formation, meditation, or anything else that can help.”

Multi-disciplinary Thinking, I’ve learned, is not just a pre-requisite for building wealth or a career. It also makes life richer, and a person more interesting.

# About the Book

Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green explores how the world’s most successful investors think and live. Green interviews legendary figures like Charlie Munger, Bill Miller, and Howard Marks to uncover their mental models and life philosophies. It’s less about stock picking and more about how wisdom, patience, and self-mastery lead to success and happiness.

Buy the book: https://jjude.zlynks.me/richer-wiser-happier

This is part of 100 Ideas That Shaped Me from Books I Read