Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest on today's show is Dr. Daniel Crosby, author of the recent book, The Laws of Wealth, Psychology

and The Secret to investing success.

Now Daniel, I got a bone to pick with you.

Did your publisher make you put the word secret in the title

saying that a financial book will not sell unless you put the word secret to success in the title somehow.

I got to be honest, my publisher totally came up with the title to the book because I

think my original title was Lazy Stupid and Rich and they hated it. They hated it so I can't take any credit or blame for the title.

It's just so funny to me because if you go down to the the money

section of a bookstore you just look through titles I don't know I'm making up

numbers off the top of my head but it seems like 30% of them have the word

secret to success or secret secret secret in the title it seems to be the

formula to sell a book about money in some way so yeah so now you to expose the secret and then it's not secret anymore.

The more I study finance, the more I realize there is no secret. And the search for

secrecy is one of the most elusive and destructive habits in the life of

an investor.

Yeah, I think, you know, my original title, I think, again, I can't remember the exact,

but it's sort of stupid, stupid lazy and rich speaks to the fact

that there is no secret that by actually doing less you do more and all these sorts of things that I think

you're alluding to.

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