Episode · ChooseFI · 2023-06-04
Travis Shakespeare on ChooseFI #062: books mentioned
062 | Manifest Destiny of FI | Travis Shakespeare
Travis Shakespeare recommended Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker, and discussed The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William J. Bernstein, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and others, Your Money Or Your Life by Joseph R. Dominguez and others, and The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
Discussed“so I got on Amazon and I started Googling books and I got a copy of William Bernstein's the intelligent investor and you know I came up through storytelling and theater and film and I was not a math guy and I sat there and tried to read the intelligent investor and it was just a total torture for me”
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Early Retirement Extreme
Recommended“then I read uh Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob one Fisk which is an incredible incredible book”
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Walden
Discussed“there's a thematic root in what's happening in the 5 community that I see going all the way back to something like Walden right Henry Davidson Rose classic book about a guy who rejects the complexity of life in order to simplify and create a space for himself to understand what's truly important in the world”
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The Millionaire Next Door
Discussed“you look at The Millionaire Next Door for instance who showcases the stories of all these sort of what I call silent practitioners right practicing frugality practicing the basics of investment practicing how to create a life of financial Independence for themselves”
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Your Money Or Your Life
Discussed“where like Vicki Robin for instance who wrote your money or your life publishes a book”
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The Richest Man in Babylon
Discussed“my biggest Financial mistake was that early on in my financial education I read the richest man in Babylon where he says that you're supposed to save 10 of your income right you're supposed to pay yourself first and save 10”
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