Valuable Lessons from My Eighth Year of Freedom

Financial Independence Podcast

The Mad Fientist

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In 2021, I decided to stop doing annual updates.

At that time, I thought I had FI figured out and was just living a “normal” life (so no need to talk about it anymore).

Well, a lot has changed since then.

Turns out, I didn’t have everything figured out :/

I explain more in today’s short podcast episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you a true.
0:04.0	Finance.
0:06.0	Hey what's up everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast.
0:09.0	So three years ago in 2021,
0:12.0	I decided to stop doing my annual updates and if you've followed the podcast for a while you know every year since I left my job in 2016 I've done an annual update talking about what I learned ever that last year and
0:25.2	when it got to 2021 I felt like I was really just living normal life and I was
0:31.4	getting bored making the annual updates because I didn't really think much had changed
0:35.4	and I didn't know if I was actually giving any sort of meaningful advice to anybody by just talking
0:40.9	about what I had been doing for the past year.
0:43.0	So I decided to stop doing them and it's amazing how much has changed since then.
0:49.0	So one, I don't have it all figured out and I've learned a lot over the last three years so I figured I could share what I've learned over those last three years and maybe start doing these annual updates again if I continue to learn things but I've also realized that things are going to get
1:04.7	really weird with AI over the next decades and content is going to be able to be
1:09.6	created instantaneously by computers and really the only thing I have is my human story and
1:16.7	that's the most important thing and my unique experiences that I can share in the lessons I learn through actually living this sort of lifestyle.
1:25.5	So both of those things combined made me realize that hey I should maybe do another one of these
1:29.4	at least and then maybe continuing to do these in future years if I have some interesting things to share.
1:35.5	So anyway, so this is my eighth year of Freedom Post and I can't believe it's been eight years.
1:41.5	That's absolutely insane insane and it was actually
1:43.6	August 1st that left my job but I'm not really on a good schedule these days and
1:49.7	so this is over a month late but hey better late than ever anyway hope you enjoy it and this is valuable
1:57.2	lessons from my eighth year of freedom so the biggest thing since 2021 is really that I feel like I'm actually using money for the first time.
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