The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2025-11-14 · 28 min · 5,479 words

How to Know When You Have Enough, Build a Safety Net, and Spend Money Well — ft. Morgan Housel

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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Prop G on Money, a special series where we're joined by Morgan Hausel, best-selling author of The Psychology of Money, along with his latest The Art of Spending Money. This is the second and final episode where we're taking your questions on all things money, saving, spending, and everything in between. Anyways. If you'd like to submit a question for next time, you can send a voice recording to OfficeAurs of Property Media.com.

Again, that's officehours of Property Media.com or post your question on the Scott Galloway subreddit. Morgan, you ready to you ready to chop some wood here? Let's do it. Our first question comes from user Delicious Coffee993 on Reddit. They say, at what liquid net worth should people consider slowing down and enjoy time over continuing to build via paychecks?

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