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512: The Curse of Making Too Much Money and Not Pursuing Your Dreams by Sam of Financial Samurai

Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice

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Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Sam of Financial Samurai shares his opinion about a real life friend's curse of making too much money and not pursuing his dreams. Episode 512: The Curse of Making Too Much Money and Not Pursuing Your Dreams by Sam of Financial Samurai (Financial Freedom). Sam Dogen's net worth took a beating in 2009 as the world was falling apart. He thought it would be a good idea to start a personal finance site to help himself and others make sense of chaos. After all, he had spent 10 years working in the finance industry, got his MBA from Cal, invested and saved aggressively, and still got financially rocked! Since then, more than 20 million visitors have stopped by FinancialSamurai.com. The original post is located here: https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-curse-of-making-too-much-money-and-not-pursuing-your-dreams Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The curse of making too much money and not pursuing your dreams

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by Sam of Financial samurai.com.

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The luckiest people on earth are perhaps those who don't make a lot of money.

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They've got very little downside and can really pursue their childhood dreams.

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Imagine if from the moment you graduated college

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