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How I Finally Stopped Caring About Spending

Jordan Grumet shares his personal journey through financial independence and there’s a lot we can all learn from his journey, especially as it relates to spending in “season two,” where he became financially independent.

How I Finally Stopped Caring About Spending [The Purpose Code] – “The financial independence world has a funny relationship with spending. On paper, we obsess over investments, spreadsheets, and safe withdrawal rates. There are arguments about whether 4% is too conservative, whether 4.7% or 5% is mathematically more accurate, and endless threads about how to optimize asset allocation down to the decimal.

But beneath all that noise, I think there’s a simpler truth:

We don’t actually want to spend.”