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The Clark Howard Podcast

2.17.20 Becoming a boring investor; TV's spying on us; What to do after a car accident

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Carl Richards, "Sketch Guy" columnist for the NYTimes, breaks down financial advice to simple sketches and is able to address motivation and how we work against ourselves. Clark is unapologetically dull and believes creating financial security should be dull as well, achieved slow and steady like a turtle. Many are always looking for the big score, the hot tip. So Clark's favorite Sketch Guy message: "The path to long term change is slow, simple and boring". Your investing should be boring so that you can have an exciting life. If your goal is to become a millionaire, if you start in your early 20s, it can be done by retirement. That goal is a heavier lift the longer you wait to start. But you start when you start investing what you can. The earlier you start and the more money you add over time, the more financial security you create for your life. Start early in a Roth or your retirement plan at work. Many bought smart TVs on sale over the holidays. Many of these TVs are vulnerable to hackers getting into your home system. Dig out the owners manual and implement a secure password - replacing the default password. You may have brought a potential trojan horse into your home. Secondly, cover up the camera. You do NOT want a hacker able to spy on you.  What to do after a car accident to ensure your safety and best consider insurance options. Check out Clark's online guide here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you

0:10.4

and that wall of yours.

0:11.6

Want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you may.

0:16.8

Clark.com is our main website.

0:19.4

Clark Deals is what you find all those bargains, including on those great fancy smart TVs.

0:26.8

I have a special warning for you about your smart TV coming up in today's Clark rage

0:33.4

and coming up yet later.

0:36.2

This is a subject that came up on the show.

0:38.1

I promised I was going to do something about it.

0:41.1

It happened in a conversation I had with you on the show after I witnessed a vehicle accident

0:49.2

between a car and an SUV.

0:52.7

It's things I want you to think about and be prepared for when the unexpected happens.

0:59.6

I talk about obviously with people all the time about how to create financial security,

1:08.9

how to build wealth over time and all that.

1:13.0

There's a guy who I refer to occasionally named the sketch guy.

1:18.4

I think he's a really interesting guy.

1:21.8

He in one little picture they all look like sketching something on a napkin.

1:30.1

He really gets down deep inside what our motivators are and how we conspire against ourselves.

1:40.0

There's one he did that I really love because I identify with it completely and I am dull.

1:52.2

You don't know that.

1:53.3

Let me tell you something.

1:54.6

I am as dull as a human being can be.

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