Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Eric Deeran ("Pay to save time", uploaded Sept 3, 2024). The speaker argues for continuous personal growth and investing money to buy time—paying others or paying to learn from experts so you can save years of personal effort. The core claim: prioritize saving time over saving money by outsourcing or learning from those with ten years' experience.
There's always a new level of growth. Like, you're never going to stop investing in yourself. And the people who think they have it figured out are the people who are at risk the most because they think they have it figured out. When, like, nobody has it figured out. You have to keep investing in learning new skills, buying your time back, learning new things that are going to save you more time. Because for me, I'd rather save time than money. I'd rather pay someone to learn the things that took them 10 years to learn. And ultimately, that's the cheat code.
