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Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
So there are many different health curves, not just one, and they all look somewhat different: Some decline in a steady, almost linear trajectory, while others are more curved, showing an accelerating rate of decline.
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Eli added 4mo ago
They pay what I call a memory dividend, which you’ll read a lot more about in the next chapter. Living on a shoestring when you can afford more deprives you of those experiences and makes your world smaller than it needs to be.
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Eli added 4mo ago
Invest in Experiences Rule No. 2: Start investing in
from Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins
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that I have never seen somebody’s total net worth posted on their tombstone.
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Eli added 4mo ago
So by trying to play insurance agent, you are not even close to maximizing your life. Again, this is why you are not a good insurance agent!
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Eli added 4mo ago
The only guy I knew who was cheaper than me was my friend Tony, who would scrounge up the unpopped kernels from a bowl of popcorn so he could reuse them later, after refrigerating them in the hope of getting their moisture back.
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Eli added 4mo ago
it: If you pay to get out of doing tasks you don’t enjoy, you are simultaneously reducing the number of negative life experiences and increasing the number of positive life experiences (for which you now have more time). How can that not make you happier with your life?
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Eli added 4mo ago
What I am an advocate for is deciding what makes you happy and then converting your money into the experiences you choose.
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Eli added 4mo ago
Or, if your out-of-pocket medical expenses amount to $50,000 per night (as they did for my father’s hospital stay at the end of his life), does it really matter whether you’ve saved $10,000 or $50,000 or even $250,000? No, it doesn’t, because the extra $50,000 will buy you one extra night, a night that might well have taken you a year’s worth of wo
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