How do you reach financial freedom?

Making work optional: earn more, save, invest, build assets.

Axis: earn much more and build assets … cut spending and save

Answers by date: 7 records in 7 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2020), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied)	Ali	The doctors' answers made Ali realise he does not want to work a job full-time with no other option because of money, which is when he started taking online income seriously.	How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:10:01
2020-09-23	Ali	Ali says he has applied the principles of Your Money or Your Life to reach financial independence, developing various streams of passive income.	The Book That Changed My Relationship With Money 00:06:15
2020-08-06	Ali	Ali has long not wanted his job to be what he must do to make money: he wants the option to do what he wants, with the money he lives on decoupled from how he spends his time.	My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections 00:26:43
2020-05-19	Ali	Money made online outside a day job, Ali says, gives the option of going part-time, taking a lower-paid job you enjoy more, or stopping work altogether.	How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels 00:00:56
2020-05-01	Ali	Financial independence means decoupling the money you need to survive from your full-time job: Ali now earns far less from work than from his other income, so he goes to work because it is fun.	How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber 00:27:16
2020-04-29	Ali	Wanting to avoid that future set Ali on the path of businesses, passive income and financial independence: medicine is fun, but he doesn't think anything is fun full-time.	Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive 00:09:52
2019-09-24	Ali	Ali never wants to be a doctor only because it pays the bills, so he still thinks it very valuable to build sources of passive income and an entrepreneurial lifestyle.	Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 00:10:03

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