Episode · ChooseFI · 2025-11-23
Frank Vasquez on ChooseFI: books mentioned
Top Five Regrets of the Dying (Book Club with Frank Vasquez and Ginger)
You don't become wiser by studying what worked — you become wiser by studying what failed. Most people chase happiness by asking "What should I do?" but Bronnie Ware flipped the question: she asked the dying what they wished they had done.
Frank Vasquez recommended Falling Upward by Richard Rohr, The Second Mountain by David Brooks, and From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks, and discussed The Time Paradox by John Boyd and others and The Soul of Wealth by Daniel Crosby. Also mentioned: Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware, Retire Often by Jillian Johnsrud, and The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Book club“All right. So what we're actually doing is we're talking about the book which is called the top five regrets of the dying by Bronny wear and okay you guys here's how I want to start.”
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The Time Paradox
Discussed“Well, the research you're talking about comes from Philip Zimardo, who's a famous Stanford psychologist who passed away last year, did all kinds of other interesting research, but this comes from a book called The Time Paradox that I I don't know read like 15 years ago.”
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The Soul of Wealth
Discussed“There is a reason why it continues to have currency and has been picked up by other people who have looked at other aspects of this in more of that analytical framework like somebody like Daniel Crosby has done in like the soul of wealth recently.”
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Retire Often
Discussed“Yeah, it does require courage and I think it's something like it is something we talk about a lot in this community, you know, like I'm even thinking of I just finished Jillian John's book retire often.”
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The Art of Spending Money
Discussed“I was also reading Morgan Hel's new book, The Art of Spending, and he talks about some of the most dangerous words in his chapter about identity are, I am a saver.”
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The Second Mountain
Recommended“Another one's called Second Mountain by David Brooks.”
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From Strength to Strength
Recommended“Another one's called Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks.”
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