525: Happiness Through Subtraction by The Mad Fientist

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🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Mad Fientist shares how you can find happiness through subtraction. Episode 525: Happiness Through Subtraction by The Mad Fientist (Minimalist Finances & Financial Freedom). The Mad Fientist analyzes the tax code and looks at personal finance through the lens of early financial independence to develop strategies and tactics to help you retire even earlier. Most personal finance advice is geared towards people retiring in their 60s or later and doesn’t apply to those of us pursuing early financial independence. The Mad Fientist is focused on providing advice and innovative tax-avoidance methods specifically for people wanting to break away from full-time employment very early in life. He also hosts the Financial Independence Podcast. The original post is located here: https://www.madfientist.com/happiness-through-subtraction 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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0:28.0	This is Optimal daily, episode 525,
0:34.1	happiness through subtraction by the madfiantist of madfiantist.com.
0:39.4	And I'm your host and narrator Dan.
0:40.8	I'm here each weekday reading to you from some of the best
0:43.8	personal finance blogs on the planet. Now let's get right to our post and start
0:49.0	optimizing your life. Life. Financial independence is just another shiny object, a new car, the latest
1:05.0	is just another shiny object, a new car, the latest smartphone.
1:12.0	It's all the same.
1:13.0	We scoff at normal consumers when they try to find happiness by buying things, but are we any better? I know I wasn't.
1:20.0	I thought that all my problems would be solved and complete happiness would arrive as soon as I hit my magic number.
1:25.5	After all, why wouldn't I?
1:27.5	Once I reached my F.I. Target, I could do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.
1:31.5	There would be nothing holding me back from true happiness, so I decided to do everything
1:35.6	I could to get there as quickly as possible.
1:38.8	Big mistake.
1:40.6	Darkness in Pursuit When Jill and I were looking for a house in Vermont, we found one that we loved, but it was in the middle of nowhere.
1:48.0	Although it was right in between her work and my work, it wasn't around anyone we knew, and it wasn't close to any of the things we loved
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