2360: Two Roads To Financial Independence by Jesse Cramer of Best Interest Blog on Achieving Financial Independence

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

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Jesse Cramer shares the two roads to financial independence Episode 2360: Two Roads To Financial Independence by Jesse Cramer of Best Interest Blog on Achieving Financial Independence Jesse started The Best Interest in 2018. He was a mechanical engineer by day, working on satellite telescopes. But his passion was to help people improve their personal finances. He began writing to "learn in public," to help people, and to add genuine signal to an otherwise noisy Internet. Fast forward to now. So much has changed. -The Best Interest was nominated for 2022 "Personal Finance Blog of the Year" -Jesse has been on CNBC, MSN, the Motley Fool, Yahoo Finance, and more. -Jesse created a book with 30 other personal finance experts contributing a chapter each. -And Jesse left engineering. He now works for a fiduciary wealth management firm with one important mission: helping people achieve their financial goals. The original post is located here: https://bestinterest.blog/two-roads-to-financial-independence/ 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 2360, two roads to financial independence by Jesse
0:06.9	Kramer of Best Interest.Blog, and on your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana
0:12.6	Mariam.
0:13.6	Now, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:21.0	Two roads to financial independence by Jesse Kramer of Best Interest.Blog.
0:27.6	Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
0:34.8	all the difference.
0:36.8	Robert Frost.
0:39.1	Most people know Robert Frost's famous poem, The Road Not Taken, especially the last few
0:43.8	lines, which you just heard.
0:46.2	And most people interpret the poem as, Frost's choice made all the difference in a good way.
0:52.5	Frost is telling us to break the mold, be different, and create an extraordinary life.
0:57.4	The Frost makes no such claim in the poem.
1:00.0	The road less traveled is neither good nor bad.
1:03.2	Frost is not passing any judgment on the path one takes.
1:07.1	Instead, Frost's point is that decisions, like a fork in the road, steer you in a direction
1:12.4	that cannot be undone.
1:14.4	And because of that, even a tiny decision can make all the difference.
1:18.1	Perhaps good, perhaps bad, in your life.
1:21.3	One road leads to another road, then another, then another.
1:25.4	Frost would never again find himself at that particular intersection.
1:29.4	His choice, left or right, led to future disparate decisions, but would never lead back to
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