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David Champion: The Psychological Challenge Of Early Retirement

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0000

David Champion retired early at 53. In his own words, the first five years were “magnificent,” with endless opportunities for climbing and adventure. However, he knows the next five won’t come so easily. Introduction Retirement is often an ideal detached from reality. When overwhelmed by daily routines, it’s easy to imagine retirement as a stress-free …

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Cory Richards: The Color of Everything

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

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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The Illusion of Skill and How to Make Better Predictions

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 20 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Imagine being faced with the daunting task of predicting the future with nothing but incomplete information and a handful of hunches. Perhaps you’re considering new experiences, like travel or moving to a different town. When I imagined quitting my job, I envisioned a happier world, free from the perceived burden of corporate work. In the …

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A Therapist on Satisfaction in Sport, Life, and Love

Mr. Clipping Chains — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, the concept of achievement and even competitiveness has weighed heavily on my mind as of late. A gift of the nontraditional life is the opportunity to step back and see the world around us with a degree of unusual clarity, far from the treadmill. For years I valued athletic and professional …

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All Work and No Play Makes You…Normal

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The concept of play conjures the image of my three-year-old (and blonder) self, plastic shovel in hand, amorphous stains down the front of my pants. And certainly slobber. Lots of slobber. That three-year-old was certainly not concerned with social hierarchy or status, lacking a whiff of ambition to put the best version of himself forward. …

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Four Years of Financial Independence: The Slow Growth

Mr. Clipping Chains — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

For four years I’ve watched something slowly bloom. In my old life, the “before time” you might call it, I moved from task to task. If I wasn’t working, I unknowingly made a practice of turning recreational or hobbyist pursuits into something that, from an outsider’s perspective, looked an awful lot like work. Goals and …

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Mike Piper: Down To The Essence Of Smart Money Management

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Mike Piper is a CPA and the creator of the Oblivious Investor blog, where he teaches a philosophy of simple and low-maintenance investing. Mike’s simple philosophy distills down to three primary principles: Mike began his career as a CPA before realizing he could support himself by writing books. Surprisingly, he left his secure job during …

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The Blue Dot Effect: Pessimism in a Beautiful World

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 08 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

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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What You Need to Know About Financial Advisors with Chris Mamula

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Today on episode 60 I’m pleased to welcome back Chris Mamula, who you may recall from episode 3. Chris is a writer, author, and partner at CanIRetireYet.com, who achieved financial independence at age 41 to pursue a life centered around family and the outdoors. Beginning in early 2022, in search of a new challenge, Chris …

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The Anticipation Of The Thing Is Greater Than The Thing

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0000

We are prone to believing that outcomes will have stronger emotional impacts on us than they often do. This state of expectation, or impact bias, highlights why anticipation of an event is a much more palpable emotion than the event itself. The impact bias can lead to behaviors that make us less content despite our …

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