Your retirement tax burden is probably far lower than you think. Most people drastically overestimate what they'll owe in federal taxes once they stop working—often assuming they'll face the same high marginal rates they pay during their peak earning years.
Brad Barrett recommended The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter and The Gap and The Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and others, and discussed Born to Run by Christopher McDougall and The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins. Also mentioned: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter is a non-fiction book that explores the modern human aversion to physical adversity and advocates for the deliberate introduction of discomfort to improve health and well-being.
Recommended
“and there's a brilliant book by a man named Michael Easter called The Comfort crisis”
Dr. Benjamin Hardy; Dan Sullivan · at 21:22 · mentioned 2 times
The Gap and The Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan is a psychological self-help book that reframes how high-achievers measure success by shifting their focus away from an unattainable ideal and toward their past progress.
Recommended
“it's a book I'm reading called the Gap in the gain and it's by Dan Sullivan and Dr Benjamin Hardy”
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is a clear and accessible guide to achieving financial independence through low-cost index fund investing and simple savings habits.
Discussed
“after episodes on Fu money and from reading the simple path to wealth after finding at vfi I understood the concept”
