Financial Autonomy

What a wonderful era that we live in where holidays and travel are a regular feature in our lives. I don’t imagine that through the bulk of human history there was enough surplus of time, food, and resources to allow you to just take time off to explore the world or relax, unless you were super rich. Even as recently as my grandparent’s era the only international travel done was to fight in World War 2. So we’re in an incredibly privileged time, where a return flight to one of our Asian neighbours costs less than your annual car rego. For the adventurous or curious, opportunities certainly abound. But there’s two key ingredients you need to truly satisfy that travel bug within you. One is money and the other is time. And that’s where financial autonomy becomes relevant because the choices it enables, can be the solution to both. My hopefully fairly uncontroversial observation is that people who listen to podcasts and read blog posts are those who like to learn - they're hungry for knowledge. And for many peop