Early Retirement Extreme - My Notes
I would have never absorbed the information from this great resource if it wasn't for Matt McKeever so before I even begin my notes and documentation of this book I have to give him a big shout-out!
Check out his YouTube Channel and show him some love because this man is doing some amazing things in London, Ontario and I can't wait to see where his Journey through life takes him! He has bought about 20 of these books and he is handing them out to people he believes could really benefit from the knowledge. I find this inspiring and would love to replicate his acts of spreading knowledge to the world within my own life.
I found this book to be an amazing resource in helping me to realize and finally break a lot of 'cultural perceptions' that I was still holding onto. I really connected with the beginning portion of this book and the philosophical aspects of how we as a society are rather hypocritical in nature. It discusses in detail how many of us contradict our own values/morals through our actions in this world and how we justify this due to money.
The words/ideas in this book helped to reveal how I need to confront and deal with these notions (and people who hold these hypocritical notions) when justifying how we spend our money (which is basically our hard work and effort).
I believe a lot of these social paradoxes we've created in society are a result of money. Life, love and respect are handled differently between humans when the almighty dollar is involved. I believe we've mixed and crossed a lot of how we analyze how corporations/businesses should deal with customers and we've placed the same terms of 'respect' onto how individuals should now interact with each other.
Instead of a society built around the human, it's built around economics and profit. We cut corners, we buy expensive electronic products to save us minutes/seconds of 'time' when we work extra hours every week to pay for these time saving products. We've taken this hypocritical idea of authorizing businesses to make as much money as they can (as long as they stay within the confines of the 'law') and now we as individuals contradict our morals and values in order to do the same.
As Jacob Lund Fisker presents Plato's Allegory of the Cave at the beginning of the book, this is not a step by step strategy on how to gain financial independence within your own life. It's a way to open your eyes to the many cultural perceptions and hypocritical tendencies we've absorbed from society and helps us to break free from these chains to see other possibilities/perspectives/way to go about earning money and reaching financial independence!
I really suggest picking up this great book! Thanks again Matt!