1086: Weekend Edition: The Magic of Thinking Big by Mr. Money Mustache on How to Be More Positive

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🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Mr. Money Mustache shares the magic of thinking big. Episode 1086: Weekend Edition: The Magic of Thinking Big by Mr. Money Mustache on How to Be More Positive Mr. Money Mustache is a thirty-something retiree who now writes about how we can all live a frugal, yet awesome, life of leisure. He and his wife studied engineering and computer science in Canada, then worked in standard tech-industry cubicle jobs in various locations throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. Then they retired from real work way back in 2005 in order to start a family. This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50% less expensive than most of their peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two. The original post is located here: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/28/weekend-edition-the-magic-of-thinking-big/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1086.
0:03.0	Weekend edition, the magic of thinking big by Mr. Money Mustache of Mr. Money Mustache.com,
0:09.0	and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Saturday. Welcome to one of the only podcasts in the world where
0:14.2	blogs are narrated to you for free with permission from the authors. Now permission from probably
0:19.2	like a hundred different authors at this point. Super grateful for them. Including today's author,
0:24.0	Mr. Money Mustache, who I got to meet this year at FinCon, the personal finance conference.
0:28.7	But for now let's get right to today's post and start optimizing your life.
0:36.8	Weekend edition, the magic of thinking big by Mr. Money Mustache of Mr. Money Mustache.com.
0:44.1	It's the weekend, so that means we get a step back for a little bit of philosophy instead of
0:48.8	hard number crunching. Today I've prepared a little story for you. One dark February night in 1992,
0:55.8	the skinny teenage version of Mr. Money Mustache was sitting alone on the lazy boy chair in his
1:00.4	parents' living room, staring out the window and as severely depressed funk. I had just been dumped
1:05.6	by my first girlfriend. Liking any past experience I felt it was the end of the world.
1:11.6	There was nothing to do besides shed tears of teenage angst to the soundtrack of tragic pearl
1:16.2	jam songs. I needed something to take my mind off of the incredible loss, so I started combing my
1:22.1	parents' bookshelf for something to read. Deep in a remote recess of the shelf behind that dry
1:27.7	art history books and bizarre, youngy and psychology tomes, a much smaller and more approachable book
1:33.9	materialized. The title was The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz PhD. Looking back almost
1:42.0	20 years later, I feel certain that the book must have been stashed there by future me just as
1:47.4	Biff traveled back in time to give a sports almond act to the teenage version of himself and back
1:51.5	to the future too to ensure a drastically more successful life for himself. This tiny and simplistic
1:57.7	and charmingly outdated book from the 1950s completely changed my life. And now, junior mustaches,
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