2318: Financial Independence Is A Hall Pass For Safe Reinvention by Dave of Accidental FIRE

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

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Dave of Accidental FIRE reminds you that FI is a hall pass for safe reinvention Episode 2318: Financial Independence Is A Hall Pass For Safe Reinvention by Dave of Accidental FIRE Dave reached financial independence and semi-retired in his mid-40's through hard work, smart living, and investing. The Accidental Fire blog chronicles his journey and explores many aspects of personal finance including the psychological and behavioral factors that drive our habits. The original post is located here: https://accidentalfire.com/2022/06/28/financial-independence-is-a-hall-pass-for-safe-reinvention/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Finance Daily, Episode 2318.
0:04.7	Financial Independence is a hall pass for safe reinvention by Dave of AccidentalFire.com.
0:11.6	And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam.
0:15.5	We have a new author today.
0:17.0	I'll tell you more about Dave right after the reading, but for now we're going to get
0:20.8	right to today's post as we optimize your life.
0:28.6	Optimal Independence is a hall pass for safe reinvention by Dave of AccidentalFire.com.
0:36.2	I've been part time at my main W2 job for well over five and a half years now.
0:41.2	Not 32 hours a week, but a scant 20 hours a week.
0:45.3	A drastic change like that after almost 25 years of full-time workaholism has huge consequences.
0:52.1	I wrote about how I was slowly losing what I call my W2 muscles back in 2019, only about
0:58.1	two and a half years into my part-time status.
1:01.4	My presentation skills were waning.
1:03.6	My grasp of technical terms and corporate speak was weakening.
1:07.5	I was losing my sharpness even then in 2019.
1:11.2	Now three years later, I'm a literal husband, a persona non-grata in my industry, but
1:17.0	I've embraced my professional decline with reinvention.
1:21.2	Going down?
1:23.1	Most of us will experience a decline in our work performance as we age.
1:27.4	In his book From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the
1:32.2	second half of life, author Brooks writes about how we cognitively decline as we age and
1:38.3	how there are different kinds of intelligence, such as crystallized intelligence and fluid
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