contentment Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/contentment/ Funding the Adventurous Life Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:14:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/clippingchains.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-TEST_CC_Logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 contentment Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/contentment/ 32 32 150809980 Cory Richards: The Color of Everything https://clippingchains.com/2024/07/01/cory-richards/ https://clippingchains.com/2024/07/01/cory-richards/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=10120 Cory Richards shocked the world when he abruptly ended his climbing career at the foot of Dhaulagiri in 2021. He is ready to tell his story. Introduction Perhaps no one has quit their job like my guest today, Cory Richards. Richards, still a world-renowned photographer, abruptly ended his career as an elite mountaineer in April …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/20/how-to-make-better-predictions/feed/ 0 10073 What Two Writers Taught Me About How to Think https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/06/what-two-writers-taught-me-about-how-to-think/ https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/06/what-two-writers-taught-me-about-how-to-think/#respond Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=10035 In 1949, a college junior named Barbara Beattie wrote a letter for a school journalism assignment. We can only speculate on Beattie’s youthful expectations: Was she so naive to expect a response, or were these different times? She’d written playwright Arthur Miller at a time when the Broadway run of his most famous work, The …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/06/what-two-writers-taught-me-about-how-to-think/feed/ 0 10035 The Problem with Bucket Lists and How to Be Happy with Less https://clippingchains.com/2023/10/02/the-problem-with-bucket-lists/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/10/02/the-problem-with-bucket-lists/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9646 It’s often said that happiness equals what you have minus (or sometimes divided by) what you want. When our wants are many, what we have is of little consequence. That is why there are hordes of unhappy millionaires and high achievers who quietly suffer (yes, suffer) under the weight of lofty and insatiable desires and …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2023/10/02/the-problem-with-bucket-lists/feed/ 4 9646 Six Important Reasons to Reconsider Early Retirement https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/29/reconsider-early-retirement/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/29/reconsider-early-retirement/#respond Mon, 29 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9488 Today on episode 65 I’m revisiting a post published almost exactly two years ago. At the time of writing, I’d been away from my corporate job for eighteen months. I spent six months of that time living in a tiny A-frame camper with my wife and dog before resettling in the St. George, Utah area. …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/29/reconsider-early-retirement/feed/ 0 9488 The Blue Dot Effect: Pessimism in a Beautiful World https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/08/blue-dot-effect/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/08/blue-dot-effect/#comments Mon, 08 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9441 As I’ve recently mused, financial independence won’t solve life’s problems. We will never “arrive.” We will never achieve perfection. An impactful 2018 study, nicknamed the Blue Dot Effect (a stand-in for the more lumbering “prevalence-induced concept change” title), helps us to understand the mind’s tendency toward finding problems, even where none exist. The results have …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2022/11/07/impact-bias/feed/ 1 9055 Wealth Inequality: Can We Solve This? https://clippingchains.com/2021/11/08/wealth-inequality/ https://clippingchains.com/2021/11/08/wealth-inequality/#respond Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:35:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=7937 Believe it or not, most Americans are in better financial shape as a result of the pandemic. America has a cash glut. Is this the moment to shift the tides of wealth inequality? Both the Trump and Biden administrations have pumped trillions of dollars into the economy via stimulus packages. Home values are exploding, a windfall …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2021/11/08/wealth-inequality/feed/ 0 7937 Six Important Reasons Not to Retire Early https://clippingchains.com/2021/05/31/six-important-reasons-not-to-retire-early/ https://clippingchains.com/2021/05/31/six-important-reasons-not-to-retire-early/#comments Mon, 31 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=7253 When I first discovered financial independence, the thought to retire in my 30s warmed my soul like a batch of hot stew on a late February night. If I could rely on the wondrous and fantastic powers of compound growth to build a bitchin’ snowball of money, I’d never need to work again. And it …

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