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If you want to be wealthy, read this. (opens the original)
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You have been given a script your entire life. Save more, work hard, live below your means, max out your pension, and if you follow all of it faithfully enough for long enough, you will retire comfortably somewhere around sixty-five. That script works, in the narrow sense that it produces a result. But the result it produces is comfort, not wealth, and those two things are not the same destination.Genuinely wealthy people are not following a better version of that script. They are operating by a
You’re wasting 78% of your time (here’s how to fix it) (opens the original)
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When I left my job earlier this year to run this newsletter full time, people assumed my days would be packed. Writing, researching, replying to emails, managing the business side of things. The assumption was that going full time would mean working more hours than before.The reality is that I do around two to four hours of genuinely productive work a day, and I get more done in those hours than most people get done in a full eight hour shift. And it’s not because I am particularly disciplined o
Why looking POOR is so important (opens the original)
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Something took me longer to figure out than it should have, and I want to share it with you because I have a feeling you are making the same mistake I was.The people who look the wealthiest are often the most financially fragile. And the people actually building something real, the ones whose net worth grows in the background month after month, you would never pick them out of a crowd. They do not drive the car you would expect. They do not live in the postcode that matches their income. They ju
One of the best personal finance book i have ever read (opens the original)
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Majority of personal finance books are written like textbooks. Dense, formal, and structured in a way that assumes you already care deeply about the subject before you open the first page. The Wealthy Barber takes a completely different approach. It is written as a story, following a group of people learning about money from their local barber, Roy, who has quietly built genuine wealth on an ordinary income without inheritance or exceptional luck. The lessons emerge through conversation, debate,
Your brain is being eaten alive, and hobbies are the cure. (opens the original)
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The average person now spends around 70 hours a week staring at a screen. That is ten hours a day, every day, given over to something that was designed specifically to keep you there. And the cost of that is not just wasted time. It is something considerably more serious than that.The two stage attack on your brain that nobody is talking aboutThe first stage is social media. The platforms we use every day are engineered around one specific mechanism: the rapid dopamine hit. A like, a notificatio
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