A personal trainer burned out from his job realized he was trapped in the middle-class treadmill. He argues that following conventional debt rules keeps you stuck, and that building wealth requires redefining your relationship with money and getting a higher financial IQ.
So, uh, one of the things I talk about in the book is very much around this, uh, different relationship that you need to create with debt and with money. That's one of the things that I'm— I kind of spoken about with it. So if you play by the bank's rules, then you wind up working for the bank. If you play by society's rules, then you wind up in this place called the middle, with a middle level of freedom, middle level of happiness, middle level of meaning, middle level of money, middle level of earning. And that's not what a place anywhere you want to be at. And I don't know about you, I found myself there when I was a burnt-out personal trainer and it wasn't fun. And I said, not another moment, not another day. I was done and I got the hell out of the middle, right? But a lot of people who don't have the financial education and financial IQ and aren't learning like you guys are right now, they wind up stuck there literally their entire lives. And quite frankly, life's about so much more than simply working to pay the bills. That's for damn sure.
