Keep fighting — and beating — hedonic adaptation — I’ll never forget the day I got to drive my friend’s Ferrari. I had been staring at Ferrari posters in my bedroom since I was five, so it was a dream come true. I’ll also never forget what he told me a few years later: “The car now means absolutely…

It’s not just crypto, NFTs, and meme stocks — This is an excerpt from my new book, The 4 Minute Millionaire*. If you enjoy it, you can buy a copy on Amazon for $4. Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. If you want to make above-average returns, you must invest before the average arrives. Once an investment is obvious…

“You can learn a lot, you know, just by going out and using some shoe leather.” — This is an excerpt from my new book, The 4 Minute Millionaire*. If you enjoy it, you can buy a copy on Amazon for $4. Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. One of the most surprising — and sobering — realizations in writing this book was that there are very…

Choose your “life theme” carefully — and make sure you choose on purpose — What happens after you die? In his book Sum, neuroscientist David Eagleman provides 40 different, often contradicting answers to that question — some harrowing, others hilarious. What if God allowed everyone into heaven, but then we’d all complain about being stuck there with one another, concluding it is, in fact…

Don’t sell your best horse before its greatest run — This is an excerpt from my new book, The 4 Minute Millionaire*. If you enjoy it, you can buy a copy on Amazon for $4. Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. In 2017, I bought five Tesla shares for $327 each. I had researched the company a lot, and I…

A simple formula for estimating where you are in your financial journey — This is an excerpt from my new book, The 4 Minute Millionaire*. If you enjoy it, you can buy a copy on Amazon for $4. Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. In the movie Wall Street 2, Shia LaBeouf plays a rising star in the cut-throat world of stock traders…

Instead, choose a one-word theme — The more New Year’s resolutions you set, the faster you’ll feel like a failure. I used to pick five, seven, ten new goals each year. Sadly, making it from New Year’s Eve to January 1st never turned me into Superman. I was still the same old me, still hopelessly overwhelmed…

Where will your next paycheck go? — This is an excerpt from my new book, The 4 Minute Millionaire*. If you enjoy it, you can buy a copy on Amazon for $4. Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. A few years ago, a good friend of mine — let’s call him Will — finished college. …

Every dollar you spend is a vote for who you’ll become — This is an excerpt from my new book, The 4 Minute Millionaire*. If you enjoy it, you can buy a copy on Amazon for $4. Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. One way to think about money in a more positive light is to consider literally every dollar you spend…