Your financial future is too important to leave to chance. Find purpose for your money and freedom for yourself and family.
Experiencing The American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life is a compelling book with clear, potentially life-altering truths about economics and investing. As you read it, you'll engage in a profound exploration of your family's financial future.
Discover what investing is, how it works, and how it can help fulfill your purpose for life. You will have the opportunity to alter your relationship to money and investing in a way that leaves you, and those you care about, powerfully pursuing your dreams.
If you're committed to creating a life of freedom for you and those you love, you can benefit from what Experiencing the American Dream has to teach you. It's a breakthrough in financial education, backed by Nobel Prize winning research, designed to provide you with the tools to cultivate your financial future.
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Table of Contents
Author Note xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Foreword by Rob Lowe xix
Preface: Whispers of the American Dream xxi
Introduction: The Way Ahead xliii
Chapter One A Whole New Way to See the World 1
Part One Establish What’s Most Important to You 25
Chapter Two Defining the American Dream 29
Chapter Three Transforming Your Relationship with Money 51
Chapter Four Create Your True Purpose 71
Part Two Discover What Stands Between You and Your American Dream 91
Chapter Five The Investing Industry Is Broken 97
Chapter Six Understanding Yourself 123
Chapter Seven What You Think You Know Might Not Be So 139
Chapter Eight The Five Discoveries 155
Part Three Making Your American Dream a Reality 183
Chapter Nine Establish Your Future View 187
Chapter Ten Empirically Tested Academic Investing Principles 201
Chapter Eleven Diversifying with Modern Portfolio Theory 227
Chapter Twelve Where You Are, Where You Want to Be, and How to Get There 251
Conclusion: It Won’t Get Any Easier 295
Epilogue 299
Appendix I: My Vision Statement 303
Appendix II: Disclosures 307
Appendix III: Index Descriptions 317
Index 331
