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Sometimes financial advice just blindly encourages people to do “more, more, more” without stopping to ask, “Is this enough?”
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
Even if you do retire early, the Nothingness of Money won’t begin its descent if your habits continue onward. If you’re still checking your portfolio every time you touch your phone, you are far from understanding the pointlessness of money. If you hesitate to invest in a better diet because of the fiscal cost, you are still held hostage by the alm... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Nothingness of Money - More to That
John Maynard Keynes saw the truth at the bottom of all this, which is that our fixation on what he called “purposiveness”—on using time well for future purposes, or on “personal productivity,” he might have said, had he been writing today—is ultimately motivated by the desire not to die. “The ‘purposive’ man,” Keynes wrote, “is always trying to sec
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
It’s not “normal” to try to live life intentionally, doing what you want, when you want to do it. It’s not normal to stop all cash flow temporarily so that in three months you can buy $6,250 worth of stock for $5,313 and sell it immediately for a capital gain. It is normal to show up at work at eight, leave at five, complain about the new corporate
... See moreScott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
Let me reiterate: research clearly shows that people who value time are happier, healthier, and more productive than those who value money over time.2 But we still focus on money, because we underestimate the value of our time; we tell ourselves that we will have more time tomorrow than we do right now (we won’t); and we underestimate how long it w
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