Pessimism! Especially if you ask Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, which I just finished reading over the holidays. This is not a traditional personal finance book. There are no spreadsheets, no formulas promising outsized returns, and no rigid rules about how much you should save or invest for retirement. Instead, Housel explores something far more influential—and far less discussed: how human behavior shapes financial outcomes.

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