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This book changed how I think about money

2025-09-14 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:20 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Money and investing · mode: Answering questions · tags: Lesson from a book

Asked for one book that helps create financial and time freedom, Ali names MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane, the best book he has read on how to become financially free, and explains how income decoupled from your time brings time freedom.

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00:00:00 — A single book for financial and time freedom, and the scale from active to passive income

  • ★★★ Asked for a single book that helps create financial and time freedom, Ali recommends MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane, which did not exist when he started out, as the best book he has read on how to become financially free. — 00:00:00 · The Millionaire Fastlane, time freedom
  • ★★ Ali says The Millionaire Fastlane gives your mind a massive firmware update, like an iPhone update, about how money works and how to make it. — 00:00:00 · The Millionaire Fastlane
  • ★★ Once you have the skills to build financial freedom, Ali says, it brings time freedom too, because multiple streams of independent, especially passive, income are decoupled from your time. — 00:00:29 · passive income, time freedom, work optional
  • ★★ Ali says there is no truly passive income, only a scale from active income, tied to your time, to passive income, less and less tied to it; you are never fully decoupled from your time unless you just have money in something like stocks and shares, and you need a lot of that to be financially free. — 00:00:29 · passive income

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  • refine · How do you reach financial freedom? — Asked for a single book that helps create financial and time freedom, Ali recommends MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane, which did not exist when he started out, as the best book he has read on how to become financially free. (00:00:00)
  • refine · Can you build passive income, and should you aim for it? — Ali says there is no truly passive income, only a scale from active income, tied to your time, to passive income, less and less tied to it; you are never fully decoupled from your time unless you just have money in something like stocks and shares, and you need a lot of that to be financially free. (00:00:29)

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Central: passive income · The Millionaire Fastlane

Also: MJ DeMarco · time freedom

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