★ 12 Essential Lessons About Money and Life

"Society holds strange expectations around how we should spend our money. If we spend $15,000 on a Honda Civic, nobody questions the purchase. No one asks, 'How could you afford it?' or exclaims, 'Wow, you’re soooo lucky!' But if we spend this same $15,000 on a scuba-diving trip through the South Pacific islands, people raise eyebrows. They assume we’re filthy rich, or we’re up to our eyeballs in credit card debt, or we’re sponging off some benefactor. Nobody seems satisfied with the simple, honest answer: 'I hustled hard and I spent waaayyy less than I earned.'"