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Discussion on: The best investment you will make

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Sebastian Vargr

Brokers hate him, use this one trick...

Contextually, the currency of self investment/learning is mostly measured in time.
I would probably change the numbers a bit and say that for every X hours spend on something ~5% should be done learning.

The earlier in your career the bigger that number needs to be tho.
For a junior i would probably expect something more like 20%. :)

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Lasse Schultebraucks • Edited

Yeah I agree. Time is important, but in this post I wanted to highlight the investment of your income in yourself. So e.g. Brian Tracy, who mentioned the 3% Rule in his book said that 2 hours of investing everyday is enough to get to the top of your field. If you buy courses and books with 3% of your current income it is of course not worth it if you don't read and watch them.