Mad Fientist

On today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I finally got to interview the person who introduced me to the concept of financial independence and early retirement in the first place… To my mind, Jacob is the founder of the modern-day “FIRE movement” so hope you enjoy the interview! Note: To get access to the extended video interview, click here to pre-order my album and you’ll instantly get an email with the video link. His experience being a financial quant and how it impacted his personal investing • Jacob’s thoughts on early retirement how they’ve changed since publishing Early Retirement Extreme

The best way I’ve found to make progress on the things that are important to me is to focus on mastery instead. Although early retirees gain a huge amount of autonomy after leaving work, sometimes they find that mastery and purpose are lacking from their post-employment life. as I could during that month and thankfully, a new song did emerge (for those who pre-ordered the album, the last song on the album is the one I wrote during that final month). Although the goal of finishing a song helped focus my effort, keeping my attention on the habits of mastery (and allowing the song to be a by-product of the process) was maybe the biggest mental breakthrough I had during the whole project.

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And I’m so excited to share with you how it came about and what worked and how the ultralearning experiment allowed me to get over some of the hurdles I wasn’t able to get over before and all the things I learned along the way, because it’s been probably the most difficult thing I’ve done in my life, but I’m not going to be sharing any of the music project on Mad Fientist itself, because I want to keep those two things separate because I feel like the music project is going to just keep getting weirder and weirder from here on out And like I said before, I wanted to sort of just make sure I was going in the right direction and pick up a little speed so that I’d actually enjoy the journey because prior to the ultralearning experiment, it was like pulling teeth, actually sitting down to do music. Because experiencing it for myself just a few weeks ago has really made me excited for the future, because I know that even if I feel stuck and if I feel like I’m not really doing any better than I was a month ago, I know things are happening and hopefully I’ll get another jump up in abilities that I wouldn’t have otherwise had I not put in the hours.