I have read 269 books โ€“ so you donโ€™t have to.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฒ books ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ. A well-researched non-fiction book is the single most info-dense piece of culture in existence, full stop. Some author spent a few years โ€” hell, a decade, sometimes โ€” gathering material, sifting through it,โ€ฆ

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๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜†?

What do you do with your money?

If your answer is โ€œ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ.โ€Okay, so why try so hard to earn lots more money? If your answer is โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก.โ€Okay, so once you make money, hanging on to money is just as hard as making it. Youโ€ฆ

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This hinders your happiness

This one was a big problem for me in the past โ€ฆ That tiny graph shows that no matter where our current salary is ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜†/๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ. We donโ€™t realizeโ€ฆ

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Rational Optimism Pays – Try It

Rational Optimism Pays

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ฒ?ย ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™‚๏ธ I choose to believe that the future will be better than the past. We live in a world where far more people wake up in the morning, trying to make the world a better place thanโ€ฆ

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Focus less on money

Disposition Effect

โ€œ๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™—๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š, ๐™จ๐™ข๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ช๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š, ๐™ข๐™ค๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™๐™ž๐™—๐™ž๐™ฉ, ๐™ก๐™–๐™ง๐™œ๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก.โ€ – ๐˜ผ๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ฉโ€“๐™Ž๐™˜๐™๐™ช๐™ก๐™ฏ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ก๐™š (๐™ฅ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™ข๐™–๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ค๐™œ๐™ฎ) Itโ€™s a loose rule, not a law, but it applies to so many things: Debt, ambition, networking, exercise, caution, & money. ๐—” ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณโ€ฆ

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