Chapter One from the audiobook of Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas.

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• Becoming An Entrepreneur Audiobook on Audible
• Becoming an Entrepreneur on Amazon
• TVL 184 Becoming An Entrepreneur: Introduction

Ten reasons why I am passionate about productivity systems and getting things done.

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• Previous TVL episodes on productivity
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• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

If you enjoy a travel lifestyle, is it better to go fully nomadic or have a base to come back to between trips? Here's an update about our experience of both nomadic travel and having a base, and how our approach has changed since starting a family.

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• 241 Selling Our Home To Travel The World
• 252 Adapting To Big Changes
• 255 The Path to Permanent Travel And Minimalism

Investing brings emotional and psychological challenges. These challenges can lead to poor investment decisions, but they can also make you unhappy even if you do end up making a good return. This episode is about strategies for dealing with the emotional challenges of investing.

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• Job Free by Jake Desyllas
• Portfoliocharts.com
• Fail-Safe Investing by Harry Browne
• TVL 167 The Permanent Portfolio

One of the most radical ideas I've come across is this: People are not free ultimately because they voluntarily consent to their servitude. Etienne de La Boetie wrote "A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" during the Renaissance period. His book had a huge influence on many philosophers and inspired the civil disobedience movement. But, is it relevant to your personal life as well?

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• "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Etienne de La Boetie

I've had some interesting listener feedback from the recent episodes about questioning education. In this episode I respond to some of the points raised by listeners.

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339 Questioning Education

340 Review of The Case Against Education

The Paradox of Choice, by psychologist Barry Schwarz, is a book that has influenced many people interested in minimalism. Schwarz argues that the extensive freedom of choice in affluent societies has become detrimental to psychological and emotional well-being. This episode provides a critical review of Barry Schwarz's arguments.

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• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
• The Paradox of Choice TED Talk
• 227 Review of The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker

A interview with James and Taylor Davis from the One Free Family podcast. James and Taylor explain their approach to peaceful parenting and unschooling. We had a great discussion about questioning the concept of self-directed learning, and many other interesting topics.

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• One Free Family Podcast
• 338: Leadership and Parenting
• 17 Unschooling Part 1: Instead of Education

Most of what you learn in school and college is practically useless, yet education is (often) a very good investment. How can this be? This episode is a review of Bryan Caplan's book, The Case Against Education.

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• The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
• 339 Questioning Education
• 261 Thinking Rationally Part 7: The Irrationality Of Politics

This episode is the first in a series questioning key life choices around the topic of education. How valuable is education? How much education does it make a sense to get? Does education lead to greater freedom and fulfillment in life? I introduce different views on education that I will be exploring: the traditional view, the rebel view, and the realist view. I talk about why I think it is valuable to question education, even though getting a good education worked very well for me.

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• The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
• 40 Alternatives to College by James Altucher