I Will Teach You To Be Rich < PLUS | 2024 >

The second lesson was automation. Leo was a procrastinator by nature. If he had to manually move money into savings, he wouldn't do it. He set up his accounts so that on payday, his "future self" was paid first. Money vanished into an investment account before he could even think about spending it. For the first six months, it hurt. Then, it became invisible.

The first lesson Leo learned was the hardest: guilt is a useless currency. He had spent years feeling ashamed of his daily vanilla lattes. He assumed being "rich" meant living like a monk. But as he researched and practiced, he realized that being rich meant spending extravagantly on the things he loved while cutting costs mercilessly on the things he didn't. He stopped buying cheap clothes that fell apart in a month and kept the latte. Surprisingly, the math worked. I Will Teach you to be Rich

"Rich isn't a number," he penned. "Rich is the freedom to say 'yes' to the things that matter and 'no' to the things that don't. And I’m going to show you how to get there." The second lesson was automation

His journey didn't start with a lottery win or a stock market miracle. It started with a spreadsheet. He set up his accounts so that on