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Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires
24 Jan 2016
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What motivated Stig to quit his high-paying commodities trading job?
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Chapter 3: How did Stig's experiences shape his views on success?
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Many of you might know him just as Stig, but we'll get into him, his personality, his background in a second. His name is Stig. brought us in. And what he does is he has a master's degree in finance.
Chapter 4: What challenges did Stig face after leaving his corporate job?
He has studied business analysis at Harvard University, and he's the host of the Investors Podcast. During graduate school, Stig co-founded a consultancy firm providing clients with legal and financial advice relating to personal finance. When Stig graduated, he sold his shares in the firm to become a commodities trader in one of Europe's leading energy trading companies.
And he's smiling as I say this. We're going to dig into that.
You make me feel like I'm a superstar, Nathan.
I'm so pumped. Stig, you are a superstar. He now works as a college professor teaching a variety of courses, including stock investing and economics. He also owns the investment company Stig Brodersen Holdings.
Chapter 5: What is Stig's perspective on financial independence?
Stig, are you ready to take us to the top? I am. I'm so pumped about this, Nathan.
Why?
Because it's you. It can only be a ton of fun. Well, we're going to have a lot of fun. You know, you, we, we connected earlier because we both have podcasts and I learned kind of about how you're thinking about Warren Buffett, about investing, about your show. Let me just start off. This is kind of an interesting question here.
Chapter 6: How does Stig compare his earnings as a trader to his current income?
What is one thing that your father taught you that you now use in business, whether it's the podcast or teaching?
My father taught me. Wow. That's a great question. I would say always be good to other people. And I know it sounds so simple because I guess we all heard that, well, you should treat other people like you want to be treated yourself. But I think it's just something that's easy to say but really hard to practice.
So speaking about treating other people really well, there's a particular individual you hold an extremely high esteem in, Warren Buffett. Why are you obsessed with him?
Well, I think the whole story about Warren Buffett is really interesting because the first encounter I had with Warren Buffett, that was back in college.
Chapter 7: What lessons did Stig learn from his time in commodities trading?
And unfortunately, it wasn't like a personal encounter or anything. So I'm always a student and I was studying finance. And my professor taught me about Warren Buffett. And the way he said that or the way he explained that was by saying, well, if you imagine you have a monkey and not just one monkey, but a ton of monkeys, right?
Then if they all started to flip coins, you will probably think that the one that flips the most heads, he is the best coin flipper in the world. But as we all know, you can't beat the stock market. So basically this is the story about a gentleman called Warren Buffett.
I didn't quite follow that. But is the concept that if enough monkeys are flipping coins, one of those monkeys is going to flip five heads in a row and that's really rare?
Yeah, exactly.
Chapter 8: How does Stig balance teaching and podcasting?
And if you have like 100 million stock investors flipping coins, someone should be lucky. Or if you have 100 million monkeys flipping coins, one should be lucky. So one should also be able to pick the right stocks. And that was Warren Buffett. Sorry for that metaphor.
I like, you know this. I love metaphors. I want to go deep, though, because we have a lot of top tribe listeners who are stuck in a corporate job that they really don't like. And they listen to the show Stig. They listen every day. They're religious. People text me about it. It's crazy. You started as a commodities trader. You were doing well.
Why give up the safety and the high pay of commodities trading to teach and also create the podcast?
Well, I think that's really a great question because it's definitely something that I've been thinking a lot about myself. Otherwise, obviously, I wouldn't quit my job. But I think it really relates back to Warren Buffett because Warren Buffett has
he's saying that he has this blank canvas and every time that he goes to work he feels like he's tap dancing because he can paint whatever he wants to paint on this canvas and i don't know how familiar you are with working like as a trader what they do but tell us about that tell us dig dive dive before you talk about warren buffett and how he inspired you to switch dig deep into what your life as a commodities trader looked like
You worked a lot of really long hours. How long?
12, 15 hours?
Yeah, well, basically, so this was a trading company and we were trading power. So that was 24-7. Well, obviously, I wasn't working 24-7 because you can't do that. But the exchanges, they were never closed. It's not like the stock market that's closed like eight hours a day. They were on 24 hours.
So people would literally come into the office and then sleep and then get up the next morning and start working again. So- That's tough, and that's definitely not something for me.
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