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Good advice and gets you motivated to start a side hustle and start saving.
I wish someone other than Grant would’ve narrated this. He uses upspeak A LOT, so many of his declarative sentences sound like questions? He’s a terrible narrator and it sounds like a sentence is over and then he adds a part…on the end after a pause. It’s annoying and distracting.
This guy needs to learn the difference between fewer and less. Bad grammar and editing.
All in all it was an informative read (listen), just wish I would’ve read it instead of listened to his voice.

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3.0

Lots of interesting tips but very US focused and finished feeling 1. Like I'm so old at 35 and it's too late to really reite early and make my millions like this author and 2. That I'm not sure how much of this info is relevant for me in Ireland. I really enjoyed a lot of it and it definitely made me more interested in investing and shifted my perspective about savings!

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4.0

An interesting read in the money and finance realm. I try to read a couple finance books each year as a way to both keep up my knowledge in the subject and to pick up new strategies and schools of thought with personal finance. After reading a number of recommendations for Grant's book, mostly on FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) forums, I decided to finally read it. I went into this book knowing that it would have some focus on more extreme ways to build wealth quickly, but like all finance books, I also knew there would be valuable takeaways for me as well. Grant lays out his book in very useful and ordered chapters, starting with the basics and going into more depth as he goes. Like a lot of books on the topic, there's a lot of information here that you may already know, mainly because proven strategies work (example: investing early and often, being smart about tax consequences, and assessing risk). I found this to be an easy and interesting read. I basically read a chapter each night for a week or two because plowing through financial topic upon topic can be overwhelming and it was simpler to really just focus on a single thing at a time. If there was one thing I would say I didn't like about this book, it would have to be the random examples of people who succeeded in finding financial independence at a relatively early age. It's not that I doubt these examples, its very doable, especially if you can get really high savings rates going, it's just the flippant manner in which they are tossed into the chapters. That said, this is a very good book and if you're looking for a simple and up to date book to get your feet wet in learning a bit more about how to approach your personal finances, this is a good place to start.

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4.0

A quick read if you skim the obligatory anecdotes, with straightforward financial advice that's valuable to folks under 35. As others have noted, the author's journey started in at a low point for the US economy, so his example may not be as replicable as he claims.

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