Every Personal Finance Book Explained in One Sentence

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📚 Hey! Time to win.

I teach a lot about creator monetization nowadays because I’m starting to realize a costly mistake that I made earlier in life (I’m talking about in my early twenties).

Simply put, I just didn’t care all that much about making money.

I’ll give myself credit for understanding at such a young age that’s money’s not EVERYTHING (I mean, some people NEVER learn that).

But honestly, I should have cared MORE about building wealth and investing my money before I turned 30.

Luckily, I’ve been able to turn things around with the help of some fantastic books, but the truth is that if you want to become a full-time creator, the money has to come from somewhere, and life’s a lot easier when you have zero money worries distracting you from your art. Or your teaching. Or from content creation in general.

All of which is to say, I recommend getting this money stuff handled as early as possible.

These 12 books will light the way forward, but I also hope that you steer clear of that OTHER dangerous iceberg, the idea that life is ALL about money and that the person who dies with the most cars wins.

Because hey, that AIN’T it.

This collection of personal finance books addresses both dangers, and they’ll help you both fund your dream of becoming (and staying) a full-time creator, and they’ll also help you develop a “Philosophy of Money” of your own:

Every Personal Finance Book in One Sentence

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I was losing my mind earlier tonight getting the captions right on my latest YouTube video (tonight’s video, the one with the personal finance books), so I’m running a little late, but I got it figured out.

Some light swearing, a couple table bangs, the odd tantrum…you know, the usual haha.

But no, today was GREAT in many ways, and I gotta ride the momentum tomorrow, because I have a LOT of stuff to finish! My VSL, a bunch of Instagram reel editing, YouTube editing, Patreon updating, etc. It never ends, and I NEVER give up.

But hey, it’s 4:30AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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