October 2012
Beginner
160 pages
1h 49m
English
Content preview from How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 20Don’t Believe That Any of This Matters Very Much, This Money Stuff
After all, life is in session. Life is about beauty and adventure, about finding the right swashbuckling yachting captain with wavy blonde hair and bright blue eyes who will come along and sweep you off your feet.
Life is about losing the man you thought was yours forever (he committed suicide because he said you were so boring he would rather be dead than spend another moment with you), and then finding redemption by moving to a South Pacific island and starting a vegetable garden and a cooking school. You’ll teach the natives how to cook broccoli, something they never even knew existed. You can do all of this in a grass shack. Money doesn’t mean a thing to you. Instead of money you will have all of that broccoli and the admiration of the islanders. So, even if you make every mistake in the book about money, you will still have that broccoli and that cooking school . . . and the golden-haired yacht captain whom destiny is bringing toward you.
Really, again, how big a deal is money when you are in an island chain in the middle of the ocean? And that can be your life any old time. So don’t even think about the whole subject of your portfolio and how it’s doing or about how your money is doing at all. You can always be a beachcomber. You can always go live on your family’s estates in the Cotswolds. Your retirement? Does a broccoli grower need to think about retirement? Does a landed English country gentleman? ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.