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Pasricha: Traditional retirement is dangerous and I will never retire
“I don't believe people want to retire. I believe it's very dangerous. I believe you lose. A lot of the social connection, the stimulation of learning, and the story, which you could call an icky guy, and instead, you want to have purpose, and you want to be do…”
Pasricha: Writing one chapter per month produced 10 books in 10 years
“The reason I've written 10 books and journals in the last 10 years is because every month I'm trying to write one chapter, so on a monthly basis it doesn't seem like much, but it adds up over time to, like, whole, full books, right?”
Pasricha: Threshold rules eliminated his urge to time ETF investments
“When I changed it to a rule-based approach, i.e., if X, if the number of dollars in checking account was over X, Move to Y, the savings account. The number of dollars in savings account is over Z. Move it to the investment. Those simple two rules avoided me fr…”
Pasricha: Date one year before moving in, another before marriage
“I need to be dating someone for one year, a full year, before minimum, Before we live together. I need to be living together with someone for one year minimum before we get married.”
Pasricha starts every morning with three specific journaling prompts
“Every single day I wake up in the morning and I write down three things. I write down I will let go of, I am grateful for, and I will focus on.”
Pasricha caps travel at 40 nights yearly with mandatory monthly family days
“We say, okay, Neil, you can go away four nights per month, four nights away from the house, four nights maximum for 10 months of the year. July, August for me is blacked out. That's 40 nights away from my house, about 10% of the year maximum. Then we have to h…”