Welcome to Radical Personal Finance a 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.

Today, I'd like to talk with you about the value of just do it. Just try it. Just test it. I want to share with you two stories to drive home to you a very simple point.

The first story has to do with investments,, investments in things that many of us have never

particularly experienced such as investing in gold. I was recently answering a question that somebody asked about the prospect of investing in gold.

Now, gold is one of the most hotly debated topics in the world of investing.

There are people on one side who say nobody should ever buy gold.

It's a worthless, useless metal.

Doesn't, non-productive.

And then on the other hand, there are people who say,

everybody should put everything in gold.

After all, it's the only thing that will stand

when the world goes crazy and everything else goes to zero.

So as you would imagine, people have questions on this and they want to make good decisions.

And so when you go with a question like this and you ask for advice, the problem is you're simply

going to receive advice from a number of different people who are operating from a number of

different perspectives.

Now years ago I did not own any gold.

I had never invested in gold and being a student of mainstream investing philosophy I was under the I was

of the opinion that gold was basically a worthless investment.

After all, it's unproductive and it doesn't really have any use and I was completely convinced

that gold, nobody should own gold.

That was the advice that I used to give to people when they would ask me this question.

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