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Road to financial freedom

Money is a different thing to different people. The naive think money communicates success and they want other people to know they have it, by showing off, and they do that by buying things … cars, houses, clothes, jewellery.

But let me tell you something that many of you will only wake up to in hindsight, in later life. After gambling, showing off is perhaps the most costly and pointless waste of money you will ever pursue.

When I was 20, I owned a

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