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The Best Investment I've Ever Made

Name: The Best Investment I've Ever Made
Uploaded: 2025-07-06T00:01:10+00:00
Duration: 19 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker reflects on the financial returns of investing in personal education—such as mentors, workshops, seminars, and…

6 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker reflects on the financial returns of investing in personal education—such as mentors, workshops, seminars, and private tutoring—versus a traditional investment in the S&P 500. He argues that even if all the money spent on these learning experiences had been placed in the stock market during its best periods, the resulting wealth would be negligible compared to the earnings boost he achieved through the acquired knowledge and skills. The core claim is that increasing one's ability to earn provides a far superior return on investment (ROI) than any market-based investment.

If you take all of the cash that I spent on mentors, workshops, seminars, private tutoring, everything, and I had, instead of spending that on education, put it into the S&P 500, even during the best times ever, the amount of money that I'd be left with today would be inconsequential compared to what I have now. And so there's nothing that I've ever invested money on that's gotten me a higher ROI than increasing my ability to earn.