Reading Time: < 1 minute Off late I am following models that will help me build resilience. One of the fantastic model I learnt recently was to add “yet” after…
Author: Contrarian Living
You are being taught the wrong things about money. I learn and share ideas to change the way you think about money.
Reading Time: 4 minutes We make a classic mistake in our early financial lives where we burden ourselves with enough debt and enough commitments that our whole focus is…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Happy New Years everyone. While this new years didn’t only bring the end of an decade, I also entered the mighty 30’s in September 2020.…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Emergency Funds Zaroori Hai The world got some good lesson in understanding the importance of emergency funds. Its a different thing that everyone started making…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Energy always moves along the path of least resistance. It moves where it is easiest for it to go. So do our brains. So does…
Reading Time: 30 minutes Author – Cal NewportURL – Deep Work My Notes – Deep work is need to survive in this attention deficit world. You need to carve…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Seneca was among the wealthiest people in the Roman Empire. He was also one of the greatest practitioners of the stoic philosophy. While Stoicism is…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Charlie Munger said “Take a simple idea and take it seriously”. Getting rich and wealthy is a very simple idea. How do you take this…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A good financial life is a key contributor of a life well lived. While there are multiple ways of making money and getting rich, there…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Within one year of launch, a credit card payment company called Cred has garnered more than 30% of the monthly credit card payment share in…
Reading Time: < 1 minute There is a huge knowledge gap in the world of personal finance. People barely know what to do with their money. No one has the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey everyone! Its great to be guest posting here. I’m Robbie and I’m a personal finance blogger over at EAT Money. There I focus on…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I woke up this morning with the following tweet on my twitter timeline. The message is that the wealthiest people didn’t get rich on a…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Compounding is really the eighth wonder of the world. Compounding works everywhere. All you need is a perspective. Negative compounding is dangerous. Minimalism and frugality…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In Japan, there is a term called “Karoshi“ which means death attributed to work or death by overwork. Karoshi was extremely prevalent in the 60’s…
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m Mitch from A Compounding Life. You’re probably asking your-self, what does A Compounding Life mean? Simply put it’s harnessing the power of compound interest…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sorrow Mountain is the story of China’s invasion into Tibet and how Ani Pachen took over after her father’s death and led her people in…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Expect Disaster We are expected to thrive in an unknowable future. Prepare for the worst. Your good times do not need any preparation but bad…
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s a story that comes from the tradition of the Desert Fathers, an order of Christian monks who lived in the wastelands of Egypt about…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Art Of The Good Life is an excellent book. I’ve read the book twice already. It makes a perfect companion for bedside reading. Filled with plenty…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Large List Of Financial Goals A financial plan goes a long way if the number of goals is not more than what you can…