2025-03-16
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Hi there.
It's a great pleasure to be back with you again on the Richer, Wiser, Happier podcast.
One of the great challenges for all of us these days, both in investing and life, is that we live in a time of extreme uncertainty.
You see it in the world of politics and geopolitics and economics, and it's also shown up recently in the tremendous volatility of the financial markets, with the stock market getting whipsawed lately by warnings about the risk of impending trade wars and the danger that tariffs might somehow backfire and drive the economy into a recession.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by the devastating wildfires in California, which have fueled a mounting sense of uncertainty about the impact of climate change.
It's also impossible to assess the profound implications of technological breakthroughs like the rise of artificial intelligence.
None of us know how these changes are going to affect our lives.
But I think all of us sense that we're barreling forward into an unknown and unknowable future, and that everything is speeding up.
With all this in mind, one of the great questions that all of us face is simply, how can we find peace of mind and equanimity and happiness and clarity in the midst of this maelstrom of change and uncertainty?
To put it another way, how can you and I set ourselves up to lead rich and happy lives when none of us can tell what the future holds?
This is the overarching theme of today's episode of the podcast.
Our guest is Piko Ayer, who's The author of 17 books, including a brilliant new book titled A Flame, which is subtitled Learning From Silence.
Pico has been a guest on the podcast once before, back in 2023, and that conversation was one of my two or three favorite episodes of all time.
Quite simply, Pico is one of the cleverest, best read, most thoughtful, and most eloquent people I've ever met, and he's become an increasingly important role model to me in recent years.
One reason for that is that he's thought so deeply about how to construct a life that's really aligned with his own priorities and passions and personality.
In many ways, he perfectly embodies Warren Buffett's insight that it's important to live by an inner scorecard.
As I wrote in my book, Richer, Wiser, Happier, Buffett and Charlie Munger never really cared that much about how other people would judge them.
Instead, they measured themselves by an inner scorecard.
Buffett famously said that you can tell whether you live by an inner scorecard or an outer scorecard.