Thought I would switch it up this month and take a little time away from the markets (they will be there next week, don’t worry) to give some perspective to our overall lives. For this month’s missive, I’m going to pick out a few pieces from Bob Seawright’s latest post. Bob is a financial writer, but almost always with interesting tidbits about the intersection between life and wealth. His newsletter, The Better Letter, is read by thousands, and I can’t encourage people enough to sign up here.
Contrary to doomscrolling on Twitter, or even the nightly news, by almost any measure, just about everything today is amazing.
Yet no one seems happy.
The things that matter in terms of happiness are those you would expect: a good marriage, a loving family, personal autonomy, and being charitable. As we sit around our Thanksgiving tables, please take a couple minutes, hug a few seconds longer, and just realize how astronomically lucky we all are.
– Adam
P.S. – Personal shoutout to my father whose birthday was yesterday, and a fun picture of us from the newspaper 30 years ago (!!). Happy Birthday, Dad.
