Ramit Sethi’s Book Isn’t For 40-Somethings
Unless you need a nap.
Sometimes when you fall asleep to a book, it means that you’re overtired. When you fall asleep to the same book every night for 14 consecutive nights, consider the book. So many people love Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You to Be Rich, and I have to say he gives some solid advice (based on what I’ve managed to stay awake for so far).
Ramit loves to talk about numbers — how money compounded over, say, 30 years is a much greater amount than what you can make after just 10 years. I’m not a numbers person, though lately his calculations have made it into my dreams (thank you Audiobook).
Maybe because he loves compounding numbers, he targets 20-something readers who have many years to build wealth. I haven’t yet heard one of his multiple case studies discuss someone over age 32. This book makes me feel that investment is only for the young.
Laying in bed at night trying to relax at the end of a crazy day and hearing success stories from multitudes of 20- and 30-somethings making over 100k/year, instills the opposite of hope.
So what about the rest of us?
I’ll never forget a life coach’s response to someone who said they wanted to learn how to play the piano well, but they were too old and it would take too long. The coach’s response:
