5 Awesome Money Articles I Read This Week - October 20th, 2017

There are thousands of people out there writing about their financial lives, sharing their tips and experience, and providing examples of how to pay down debt, save for retirement, build financial security, and harness the power of money to live life on their terms.  Here's my favorite personal finance articles this week:

The Only Scenarios Where Repeated Failure Is An Option - Financial Samurai

Imagine if you had a Bachelor’s degree, a Masters degree, and a PhD in computer science. Imagine if you had a team of a hundred people all with similar academic credentials tasked with creating the most innovative product known to man. Imagine if you had an unlimited budget and could not fail.

What on Earth would you create? Maybe a commercial flying car? An agricultural tool to 10X the output of wheat? Or perhaps a device to help the visually impaired to see 20/20 or better?

Nope. Over the past seven years, the team at Google X has created none of these things. Instead, they’ve come up with this thing called Google Glass.

How Much Would You Replace If You Lost Everything? - Money Beagle

As hard as it is imagining life without your items, it’s just stuff.  I know that if something bad did happen, none of it would matter.  My wife and my kids.  That would be my list of what I’d need.  It would suck to lose everything else.  But even if you did lose everything else, guess what?  Life could still get back to normal one day

Food Stamp Challenge: Week 1 - Doubling Dollars

I ate the entire week for just $13.34! Incredible.To put this into perspective, today a guy at work spent $13 on lunch. In ONE MEAL he spent as much as I did all week!If you can eat like this by choice, instead of necessity, could really be an accelerator towards saving loads of money.Ya know, if you can eat simply without sacrificing your happiness.

A Serial Killer Speaks Out On Corporate Life - Early Retirement Dude

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE.

Was Keynes The First Mustachian Prophet? - Crispy Doc

The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes.

I hope you had a great money week and thanks for reading!

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