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How? The book contended that your money represents life energy. Life energy is all the hours that you’re alive to do things—and whenever you work, you spend some of that finite life energy. So any amount of money you’ve earned through your work represents the amount of life energy you spent earning that money. That is true regardless of how much or
... See moreBill Perkins • Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
Money is the minimal information that captures the social truth of the value of time and energy.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Relativity. That $5 tip George gave the server—on a free drink—and his $3.50 ATM fee don’t seem consequential compared to the stacks of chips surrounding him at the blackjack table or the $200 he was simultaneously taking out at the ATM. Those are relatively small amounts of money, and because he is thinking about them in relative terms, it is
... See moreDan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
SUMMARY OF STEP 2 1. Establish (accurately and honestly) how much money you are trading your life energy for, and discover your real hourly wage. 2. Learn about your money behavior by keeping track of every cent that comes into and goes out of your life.