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FIRE requires gamification: 1. Dave-Ramsey-style "list your debts smallest to largest, knock them out till you reach the last level!" 2. Mr-Money-Mustache-sty
by millstone 8y ago
FIRE requires gamification:
1. Dave-Ramsey-style "list your debts smallest to largest, knock them out till you reach the last level!"
2. Mr-Money-Mustache-style "dial down your spending, try to beat my high score!"
etc, what-have-you.
Beneficial advice, yet follow all the steps and you achieve a vacuum. You've arrived, there's no more debts to pay, spending is under control: now what? It's up to you, but perhaps your identity has been consumed by the journey. What were you living for all along?
What indeed? You can answer that today!
- jl2718 8y agoCertainly not all the social posturing with expensive cars, brand identities and Instagram photos of luxury travel and restaurant meals that everybody else is getting for their money.
- IanCal 8y agoThis is why it's often said you should build the life you want, then save for it.
- mooreds 8y ago> What indeed? You can answer that today! That is true, but sometimes in the grind of the every day it can be hard to look up and take the time to really think about what you want. And it can be scary to think about upending everything to get what you think you might want. That's why gamification is easier--concrete goals that don't take a lot of deep thinking about your purpose on earth are easier to achieve when you're in the daily grind. Not saying it's better--as a sibling comment says, you should aim to build the life you want as soon as you can, rather than save save save and then arrive someplace you weren't aiming for. But the gamification is easier to grasp and less scary to aim for, in my opinion.