J.L. Collins

And, and so I say to people, the more must haves you have in your life, the less like you, less likely you are to achieve financial independence.

And in fact, you,

If the number one or maybe the number two must have is not doing that, then you're probably not going to get there.

But it's your life.

It's your choice.

I wouldn't presume to tell anybody how to live their life.

But I do hope that if they read my work, at least they know there's something else they can buy with their money.

Well, that is, you know, and that's a very, Robert, that last thing you said.

Well, everything you said, I agree with.

The last thing I think is particularly important because

This is the simple path to wealth.

And by definition, that means if you follow it, you wind up becoming wealthy.

And what does becoming wealthy mean?

It means that essentially everything is free.

That was a concept that Mr. Money Mustache shared with me.

We were in Ecuador for Chautauqua.

We were walking to a bodega to buy some wine.

He'd been there before I hadn't.

And

As we're walking there, I said, hey, Pete, how much is the wine in this place?