Top investment tip for 2021 #Habits

28 Dec 2020 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by TJ Walker (uploaded Dec 28, 2020) advising viewers to "invest in yourself" for 2021 by reducing exposure to advertising. Walker recommends paying for ad-free content (streaming subscriptions, music services, Blinkist) to protect attention and claims this can cut ad exposure dramatically (examples and cost estimates given). The piece is prescriptive and focused on habit/attention changes rather than financial instruments.

Questions this video answers

December 28, 2020.

"5 to 10,000 ads per day."

About 90%.

Less than $100 a month.

Blinks (Blinkist) for $10 a month.

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It's almost 2021 and that means it's time to think about your financial portfolio for the new year. Where should you make changes? I recommend that you start by investing in yourself. I want to give you one quick investment and that is invest in protecting your own brain more from outside influences, outside reminders to do things you don't want. Specifically what I mean is is pay for content so that you don't have to pay. By giving your attention to advertisers, the average person is receiving 5 to 10,000 ads per day. You can dramatically reduce this by 90% or so if you just pay for your content for less than 100 bucks a month. You can buy subscription to Netflix, Amazon prime. You can watch your TV that way. You can listen to music that way. Instead of scrolling news sites with tons of ads, you can subscribe to something like blinks for $10 a month and read books without ads. Invest in yourself.