Companion article to One Thousand Gurus Podcast Special Episode #60
The Books That Changed How I Think About Money
Over the past decade, I’ve read dozens of personal finance books. Some were helpful, many were repetitive, and a few were downright misleading. But three books stood out as absolute game-changers—books that I wish someone had handed me when I first started my financial journey.
Today, I’m going to share the most powerful insights from these three books and show you how they work together to create a complete personal finance system:
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi = The SYSTEM (the how-to mechanics)
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel = The MINDSET (the behavioral foundation)
- The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins = The PHILOSOPHY (the long-term strategy)
By the end of this article, you’ll have a complete roadmap for building wealth—not just tactics, but the psychology and philosophy to back them up.
Why These Three Books?
Here’s what makes this combination so powerful: Most financial advice focuses on only one dimension. You’ll get books that are all tactics (“open this account, buy that fund”) or all philosophy (“money is energy, abundance mindset”).
But real financial success requires three things working together:
- The mechanics – You need a system that actually works
- The mindset – You need to understand why you make the money decisions you do
- The strategy – You need a long-term plan that compounds over decades
These three books, when read together, give you all three dimensions. Let me show you how.
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