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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're excited to have a conversation with Ramit Sethi, a renowned personal finance advisor and author. Ramit is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "I Will Teach You To Be Rich," and he's here to share his wisdom on designing a rich life.
Ramit Sethi is a financial guru who has transformed the lives of millions through his unique approach to personal finance. He's not just about saving pennies; Ramit believes in living a Rich Life, a life where you spend extravagantly on the things you love while cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don't.
In this enlightening episode, Ramit delves into the principles and strategies that can help you design a rich life. He discusses the importance of understanding your money psychology and the power of negotiation. He also shares his perspective on why spending extravagantly on the things you love isn't a bad thing, but rather a part of designing a rich life.
Don't miss out on this insightful conversation with Ramit Sethi. Tune in now to learn how to design your rich life! You can find the Unmistakable Creative Podcast on all major podcast platforms. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review!
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| 0:00.0 | go to a big city, go the hottest city you can possibly go to and figure out a way to make it work there. |
| 0:06.7 | Why? Because when you're young, the cultural capital, the social capital, the idea capital, the social capital, the idea capital is in these big cities. |
| 0:17.0 | It is where, whether you're looking for a relationship, there's more people. |
| 0:22.0 | Whether you're looking for a job, there's more jobs and there's more people. Whether you're looking for a job, there's more jobs and |
| 0:24.3 | there's more people who have those jobs so they can even tell you those jobs |
| 0:27.5 | exist and how to get them. And the best part is when you're young you're |
| 0:31.7 | relatively unencumbered and you can live in a way that |
| 0:35.2 | predictably you will not want to live when you're 35 or 40. |
| 0:39.8 | When I was young I know the type of living situation I had right my rent was 800 bucks a month I lived in a |
| 0:44.2 | room with a bunch of other guys in that house great I don't want to live like that anymore |
| 0:49.5 | but I'm really glad I did it back then. So there is something to be said about really observing |
| 0:55.7 | your season of life and optimizing for it. That's why when I hear a 20 year old going and buying |
| 1:00.4 | a house I go, what are you doing? Why are you doing that? |
| 1:04.0 | You're gonna have a season of life where you want stability. |
| 1:06.6 | Maybe you want a big house or a certain school district or whatever, fine. |
| 1:10.0 | But is that truly what you want in your 20s or are you simply following a script that in order |
| 1:15.6 | to be the American dream I need to buy a house? |
| 1:18.8 | That's what I mean by questioning it. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
| 1:27.4 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most |
| 1:30.8 | innovative and creative minds who started movements, built |
| 1:33.7 | thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely |
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