Start building companies that will outlive you, write books that will outlive you, and make artwork that will resonate to future generations.Become as wise as you personally can, by studying philosophy and applying it to your real life.Help empower others who are weak and need opportunities to do good in society.Study Stoic philosophy, and recognize you have nothing to fear.Increase your earning of money, and start saving 80%+ of your income.Reduce your living expenses to the absolute bare minimum.And if you don’t know how to live frugally and below your means, you will always be a slave to your “steady” income. Just because you’re rich and have lots of money doesn’t mean you have freedom. Remember - it’s not “happiness” we are seeking, but freedom. Vouchers will upgrade your account when you need it and are especially well suited for those who only use YF. If you’re a billionaire and a slave to the board, share holders, and cannot even take a 15 minute nap when you want to, you’re simply a (very rich) slave.īecome an entrepreneur, earn money, and use that money to buy your freedom. Its an alternative to buying time-based upgrades. “Can you take a nap whenever you want to?” The ultimate luxury is free time and freedom- to do what you want to, and to NOT do what you don’t want to do.Īnother saying by Taleb, to gauge how free you are: I only measure success by how much time you have to kill. So if we have enough money to feed ourselves, not die of thirst, or die of the cold - how much money do we really “need”?Īnother quote I like from my buddy Nassim Taleb, In Vietnamese, Cindy taught me that “to work” is ‘lam an’- which literally means, “labor eat”. To have money and to not have to do anything in order to “make a living”.

It’s been one of the best, easy-to-read financial freedom books I’ve read to help me in my investment journey. Oh yeah, money is also good for buying our freedom - If you want your money working for you, you are looking for a simple approach, and you don’t want to play with risky strategies, this book is for you. Money is good to buy food, coffee, and to pay rent. We become slaves to our stuff, our homes, our bills, and our lifestyles. We think we “own” our stuff, but it’s actually our stuff which owns us. With modern credit systems, banks, mortgages, etc- we are now modern share croppers. The way I see it, employment in capitalist society is institutionalized slavery (idea: Nassim Taleb). I learned from my best friend Seneca that when we think we need more money to be free and “secure”, we actually have too much money- far more than we need to secure our personal freedom. How do you know you don’t (already) have too much? If you don’t have debt, if you don’t have a fancy lifestyle, and if you don’t seek to own fancy stuff, it is actually quite easy to buy your freedom. The easiest way to buy your freedom is via the following: It’s already there, but it’s just been buried under years of programming and limiting beliefs and stress and clutter. However, we need money in order to buy our freedom.īut how much money do we really need to buy our freedom? Cultivate your freedom so that you can generate more money. I’m watching SOLO, and a mini epiphany I had is this:

Buy your freedom