Welcome to Radical Personal Finance. Although today, I should simply say welcome to conventional

Personal Finance. My name is Joshua Sheet. I'm your host. This is a show dedicated to helping you live a rich and meaningful life

while steadily working towards the good life, enjoying it both now and

Achieving your goals for financial freedom over the course of several decades. Now of course, that's a different introduction than I usually

Start the show with. But today, I think it is an appropriate one because I want to talk today about the power of

conventional thinking and also conventional financial planning. Let me begin with a bit of

philosophical introspection that I have been engaged in

quite a bit over the last few days and I try to make this a continual bit of introspection, especially over the last few years.

Speaking broadly, I think that one of the dangerous trends of

youthful revolutionaries and

In that camp, I would count myself at certain times and also of

many leading voices in many industries is

We tend to ignore the wisdom of the past

Without question, I myself have been guilty of this at many times in my life. I

Come across an idea that excites me. I come across something where I think, oh, this is phenomenal and we should just change everything

and then perhaps you go down the path a little ways and

You discover that actually there is a good deal of wisdom in

What most people were doing?

Over the years, I've shared with you various podcasts and one of those I talked about why I have decided that I am not

Interested in being a

revolutionary

Rather, I'm interested in being a

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