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Oct 2023
10m 32s

Little Flaws

Morgan Housel
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Daniel Kahneman says, "The long-term success of a relationship depends far more on avoiding the negative than on seeking the positive."

It's like that in so many areas of life. 

Most people know what they're good at, or at least they think they do. Flaws, though, tend to be nuanced, and we're often blind to them. 

This episode shares dozens of little flaws I often think about -- ones that are easy to ignore, but can compound into disasters over time. 

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