A short persuasive talk arguing that individuals themselves are the highest-return investments. The speaker urges people to prioritize investing in personal development (e.g., reading, self-education) over material expenditures, claiming such investments yield greater returns than things like expensive home renovations.
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You are your best performing asset. You have always been. You will always be, right? You have. You have the capacity to give the biggest return on investments than any other thing, any other asset you have in your investment portfolio. And so the starting point is recognizing that. Recognizing that I am. You know, a lot of times when I have met people who will say, yeah, I don't read books. I'll never waste my money buying a book. And I'm like, oh, my goodness. Right? Like, why would you. Why would you say that? I would see people and, please, I'm not picking up, picking on anybody who's. Who are like, oh, yeah, you know, we just did a. You know, we just did a rebuild in our kitchen. It, you know, it costs about $50,000. I love it. But they would not invest in. It would not. They would never invest that amount of money in themselves, right? Because they're like, that's a waste. What is the return on investment? I'm like, more than your kitchen, right?