Let’s talk about Mental Accounting.
There are probably 50,000 books written on how to handle failure.
When I talk to young people in their late 20s, early 30s, they all say the same thing:
“I really want to buy a house.”
No, I’m not being crass. This is serious stuff. If you want to experience true financial freedom, you need to make enough money to essentially say, “Screw you!”
After I graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1996, I went to work on a ship just west of Seattle in Port Angeles, Washington.