Best of: Michael Ellsberg: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It may seem counter-intuitive at first to spend money in order to increase your wealth and financial stability, but that’s just what Michael Ellsberg wants you to do. And he has plenty of reasons why that’s the case. He joins us to discuss education, not ignoring your “light bulb moments,” developing superskills to increase your earning, and much more!
Michael Ellsberg is the author of “The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever,” and The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think, and It’s Not Too Late, both published by Penguin/Portfolio
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