You’ve seen them. Those sensational online profiles of people who accomplished massive goals that most of us can only dream of in a ridiculous amount of time. How This 30-Year Old Quit His Job and Became a Millionaire or How This Millennial Bought a Home in NYC on a $30k salary or How This Couple Paid off $200,000 Worth of Debt in a Year.
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These stories are great inspiration porn, but they’re typically just as practical as any other “get rich quick” story, which is to say, not very practical.
The “how” part of the story usually boils down to a unique or obvious circumstance: Their parents gave them a large sum of money, they came up with a genius business idea that took off, or they have a job that alread…
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