In this episode, I cover:

- Is your hobby meaningless?

- Does it make sense to invest a lot of time, money and energy in very restricted hobbies?

- Why humans can't feel good when idle, with no goals

- Why nowadays we are living life on easy mode

- Having useless skills

- Is business a good purpose?

- Why it doesn't matter if you'll never be the best at business

- Why money is the largest competition the the world (one everyone participates in)

- And more...

In this episode, I discuss: 

- Why hide your wealth?

- Different attitudes in the US and in Europe regarding wealth displays.

- How average people are blind to your discipline and good life decisions.

- Why arguing is a waste of time.

- The drawbacks of having people around you knowing how rich you are.

- How to hide your wealth?

- What you should or shouldn't spend on, to "lay low".

- Expensive purchases and expectations.

- Being taken advantage of.

- How your attitude and gut reactions could still reveal how much money you have.

- Not being a snob.

- In summary, how to avoid people knowing your wealth.

- And more...

I solve in 20 minutes what you did not manage to solve in years. I make you lean through one single realization. Take it from somebody who's under 10% bodyfat. You're welcome. 

In this episode, I discuss serendipity and why you should have a vision for what you want but remain very flexible on the way to reach that. I also discuss Brandon from Investment Joy who's a perfect example of somebody doing this right.

For the 20th episode, we'll discuss an important realization. When you're driven and compare your actions to everyone else's, you realize that 99% of them are no competition, let me explain. 

In this episode, we cover:

- Highway realization

- Deeper look at how the average person acts

- Average people's expenses compared to income

- New cars

- Maxing out housing and mortgage

- Covid-19 exposes how little savings people have

- Exact same situation in richer cities

- 99% of people have zero discipline

- Working out, eating habits and sugar

- Drinking

- Mind pollution 

- Why news are useless

- How you can be informed of news useful to you while bypassing the rest of it

- Reading and growing

- Negative mindsets and jealousy

- Differentiating people who are content with their situation, from those who want more but don't act

- Ego, and being too good for work

- "Little" people being drunk on low-dose power

- Unhappy people sweating the trivial problems

- Good decisions compound 

- The book "The Compound Effect" by Darren Hardy

- Self-awareness already puts you in front of most people

- A bit of drive and there's no competition

In today's Rantcast, I discuss:

- Police stopping foreign cars

- Spending lockdown at the family house instead of a small apartment

- Finally having my uni friends in the same city but then... it's forbidden to meet

- Working from home sounded good at first, but in the end not really

- How working from home is different during Covid-19 than usually

- The police having to handle people rushing to McDonald's drive ins

- Lack of cheap sit-down food places to meet your friends 

- Using videogames to share time with your friends during lockdown

- Camaraderie and shared activities, why the videogame itself doesn't matter

- Nobody wants to hike

- Playing Doom, and why I can't enjoy solo videogames anymore

- How I now feel guilty when watching Netflix series

- Lockdown and being idle can kill creativity

- Videogames and dopamine, how it's killing your drive by tricking your brain into believing you're achieving

- Removing fake dopamine to increase discipline

- Brain selecting the easiest path to dopamine, then rationalizing the decision

- Good habits condition you into avoiding wasteful activities

- Why not watching Netflix is not "missing out"

- Marcus Aurelius straightforward stoicism, and Nietzsche's convoluted writing

- Kaufmann's Portable Nietzsche and Basic Writings of Nietzsche

- Marcus Aurelius against individualism

- Good workouts without gyms, bodyweight exercise variations, etc.

- Belgians don't want lockdown to end (many are happy to be paid doing nothing during Coronavirus)

- Deconfinment and hospital intensive care capacity

- How threatening to resign for a promotion is a good strategy that still can backfire in some companies

- And more

I noticed some landlords are renting out homes almost at a loss in some situations, here's how renting can get you a crazy good deal (with a detailed example to illustrate it).

In this episode, we cover:

- Why even cities with good rental yields have good rental deals

- Nice and modern interiors

- Difference between renovating for yourself and "as a rental"

- Trendy vs timeless home style

- Upkeep-heavy materials and choices

- Financially-uneducated landlords renting out almost at a loss

- Thinking as an investor, and opportunity cost

- Real estate alternatives

- Buying rental properties for status

- People actually investing in real estate without once running the numbers

- Starting from a consensus conclusion (i.e. rich people have real estate)

- Posh real estate vs scrumy real estate

- People judging me for considering investing in low-income apartments

- Adding value to a property to make a good deal

- Irony of investing without a return, for safety

- Real estate without a mortgage?

- Having to compete with people renting out at a loss

- Taking advantage of good rental deals

- Renting long-term, and paying for it through passive income

- Renting being an even better deal in bigger, more expensive cities

To reach your goals, you need every advantage you can get, one of which is... a simpler life. Let's see some ways you can reach that.

In this episode, we cover:

- Having an edge, an competitive advantage

- Is renting a small apartment useful?

- House maintenance, furnishing, cleaning

- Moving

- Having pets

- Auditing and decluttering hobbies

- Speaking foreign languages

- Use it or lose it, skills that require maintenance 

- Doing things well, or not doing them at all

- Distractions (video games, etc.)

- Videogames, dopamine overload, and lack of motivation

- Toys (motorcycles, leisure car, boats, horses, etc.)

- Status clothes

- What car of cars make life simpler?

- Cars passenger and cargo space

- Home gyms or membership?

- Throwing stuff away

- Investing in stocks or real estate?

- Not spreading your attention too thin

- Focusing on what really matters

- Competitive advantages

- Self-awareness

Today I rant about my workplace using Coronavirus as a way to screw its employees over, and how I will probably be screwed further in a near future.

I cover:

- Companies changing their policies

- Loopholes in labor laws during Covid-19

- Spending your vacations locked down

- How time off loses its value when using too much in a short period

- Bonuses and promotions cancelled?

- Why just one missed promotion, is a significant loss over your whole career

- Saving, taking what you can get

- Why saving doesn't mean missing out on experiences

- You don't regret having made and saved money

- Performance incentives disappearing

- Lack of motivation in employees

- Non-investors that are happy about the stock market crash

- People counting on future promotions to live large today

- Putting all of this into perspective

This very short episode is a reminder that now is the time to leave your competition (if it can even be called competition) in the dust. 

I explain how the Coronavirus turmoil is the time when you can have an edge, and why you should not miss the opportunity.