This and Julius Evola as inspiration to be strong in mind and spirit.
Book thread!
Jacob Fisher
Adam Long
youtube.com
The wisdom of psychopaths (audiobook)
Jace Ramirez
RDPD isn’t a shit book but it can be summed up in an early chapter (might even be the first) with the story about literally making money. But that was all I took from it desu.
Hudson Evans
Also it’s a quick and easy read you don’t even need to buy. PDF: csce001.com
I always read even if they’re shit because you might find that one line that can be of value to you.
Ryan Jenkins
Did you read it bro? It was pretty enlightening.
Jonathan Moore
Thanks. Here's my background at the moment, honestly: I'm in a kind of strange place because I'm 22, have about 200k in my bank account and crypto together, would have about 350k if Bitcoin went back up to $20,000, and I'm married and live in a house that my wife owns and we have no debt of any kind, and she has perhaps 100k or so in a bond for her retirement that I know nothing about.
1. My wife insists on taking most of my salary, almost all of it, and I save the rest like a miser and this is discouraging. Me putting my foot down means she leaves and this feels like a captive situation for me but at the same time I don't WANT her to get a job of her own because I'm the man and I want to be seen like that and perhaps have children.
2. I am working a dead end teaching job abroad that I hate but waiting for crypto to go back up. My wife and I realistically spend like $1000 a month at the most, but my current salary is only about $3000 a month. But that means $360k would last us at least 10-13 years if we invested it very conservatively and waited for it to go up.
I read "Think and Grow Rich" and I remember the times when I was single and had goals that were extremely ambitious and yet I reached them after months or years of trying. I believe wholeheartedly in what he is saying. Yet a part of me thinks "just gotta wait for crypto to go back up and THEN my real life can start and I can buy myself enough time to figure out what I really want to do with my life. Just $20k or so BTC and that's it." So basically I feel stuck and don't have many other real goals with my life. And yet I know that for most of my life I was the person who could succeed in anything I put my mind to (traveling around the world, ivy league education, etc.).
How do I get things back? The book says I need to know what I want, that I need that desire and an idea, basically.
What would you do?
Daniel Gonzalez
Sorry you had to lose your ears friend
Daniel Jackson
Move your money into Monero, claim you lost it all gambling or drugs. Get divorced. Sell it for cash and spend it carefully.
Jackson Walker
Really interesting perspective. I can agree with that.
People think it peddles "get rich quick!" ideology and "your thoughts actually have magical powers" in a weird supernatural cult sort of way. These same people will insist that "Richest Man in Babylon" with its "save 10% of your income" is the only way to go and anything faster than that is a scam I think. That's my takeaway from it. I want to believe that while books like Richest Man in Babylon are great and important, these people are wrong and the mindset pushed by "Think and Grow Rich" is better for those who want to be exceptional and successful beyond other people.
Caleb Jenkins
>no wife: dreams and ambitions realized
>wife: dreams and ambitions remain dreams
Hmm