Shane Parrish

And I always ask myself and others, like, what would you do if nobody was watching?

What would you wear?

But isn't that like, that's the pinnacle.

Like that is in a way a definition of success.

I think for people who travel all the time, like you and I, travel definitely becomes something that you probably spend what your younger self would consider an obscene amount of money on.

Yeah, or flying overseas and giving a talk the next day.

What can history teach us about inflation?

And what advice would you have for somebody today about dealing with inflation?

All the time you spend thinking about something you don't control comes at the expense of something you do control.

Yeah.

Save an extra dollar or sort of buying more independence.

I love that idea of buying independence for your money.

It seems like pace affects a lot of what we do financially.

And by pace, I mean

We know the path to get wealthy, at least generally speaking in life.

It's to save a little bit of money, dollar cost average into index funds, and repeat for 20, 30, 40 years.

And that is about as sure of a path to gain wealth.

And yet we have this lack of patience, in part because we see other people getting wealthier faster than us.

And I have this saying, a lack of patience changes the outcome.

But