In this podcast we recap Episode 48 with Jeff from The Happy Philosopher plus a life hack update from Brad and a question on how to present the FI concept to others.
Podcast Episode Summary
- Recap of Episode 48 with Jeff from The Happy Philosopher
- Jonathan and Brad’s recap of the Fincon conference
- How Brad and Jonathan brainstormed the future of ChooseFI at Fincon
- How the FI community is growing significantly at Fincon and how people were coming up to us saying they were listening
- How much value we can get from FI-centric events going forward, such as Camp FI
- How taking action is essential with the pursuit of happiness
- Happiness through subtraction and the process and mindset necessary
- Removing news and television from your life as well as sports
- How Jeff cultivated happiness in his life by “adding kittens”
- Finding the little moments that add value to your life
- How important gratitude is in life and how Jeff introduced that to us
- Decluttering and how it impacts Brad psychologically
- Jonathan’s experiment with his three closets of clothes and how little he actually wears
- Karen’s feedback on how to document your donations for clothing and such
- How essential it is keep organized and how you should do it along the way
- Brad’s life hack using unroll.me to organize all his subscription emails
- Email from Paul who is facing a challenge to introduce FI to his children
- Jonathan’s thoughts on how to present FI to someone else
- Email from Jennifer on a Bloomberg article that shows how even if you invested at the worst time in 2007 that your money would have doubled since then
- Itunes review and book giveaway
Links from the show:
- The Happy Philosopher
- Fincon Conference
- JK Wedding Dance on Youtube
- How to Be The Happiest Person in the Room
- Camel Camel Camel
- Unroll.me
- The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement
- How to Go From Middle Class to Kickass
- Bloomberg article: You Just Doubled Your Money If You Invested at the 2007 Market Peak
