What looks like the “rich life” is actually just buying time
Most people don’t know Pablo Picasso was badass.
After Picasso was famous, he returned to the original studio he used to occupy as an amateur. Out the front there was a homeless guy on the bench. The man was a starving artist. He couldn’t catch a break.
Picasso walked over to a rubbish bin near the homeless man. He pulled out a piece of scrap paper and spent the next few minutes drawing a beautiful work of art for him. Picasso signed the bottom of the artwork.
“Here you go, buy yourself a house.”
This story sticks out to me because it’s not the traditional definition of rich or wealthy. But it’s now my definition.
The hard part about poverty is you act from a place of scarcity. You’re always trying to get something from someone. Everything comes down to money. Money is on the brain every day and makes you go insane.
Having enough money to help those in need, or to kickstart the careers of the next up-and-comers in your field is true wealth.
These money tips have helped me more than a finance degree ever could. They’ve been so helpful I decided NOT to get a finance degree at all, even though my bank employer said a degree was a good idea. Screw them.
The “stop drinking your $4 cup of coffee every day” advice is stupid.
Let’s do the math. If you buy a $4 cup of coffee every day for 10 years, it’ll cost you $14,600. That isn’t gonna make you rich! Even if you invested the $14k in an index fund it’s still not going to do much for you.
Stop falling for this poverty advice.
Drink your coffee. Enjoy life. Focus on ways to make more money, not save $4 a day and skip coffee shop chats that could lead to new opportunities.
Talking about saving money is for losers. Hang around people who want to make more money online instead.
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