A very warm welcome to the early retirement show, the show dedicated to helping you navigate

the nuances of an early retirement, a non-traditional retirement. Now let's get right into the

episode so we can learn how to retire early. Today's episode is a fun one. It's about how to know

when you should stop working. That's right.

This was not a typo. When you should stop working. Now, so many amazing podcasts out there talk about

how much you should be saving for retirement, what a good withdrawal rate is throughout retirement

to make sure you never run out of money, how to optimize your taxes, all very,

very important things. But today, I wanted to focus on something that is not normally focused on,

which is when you should stop working, meaning when are you in a position where you no longer

have to go to work solely for financial reasons. So let's hop into today's episode right before we do.

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this new content. So how should you know when you should stop working? Well, the first thing I would ask

yourself is how much do you want to spend in retirement? I've done another podcast talking about

how to calculate your retirement expenses, but just generally, nobody has it exactly perfect.

How much do you want to spend? You might be listening to this going, Ari, I know exactly how

much I want to spend. I've calculated it. I want to spend $80,000 a year when I retire. Other people are saying, okay, I have a general sense. I think it might be in the $5,000 to $6,000 a month range, but I don't exactly know. And the job here is not to think, okay, I now have to understand exactly how much I'm going to spend. That's not the point

here. The point here is to start thinking about it and going, okay, how much do you want to spend,

and can I reasonably support that with the way I am investing today? Now, what I want to ask you next

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