The rat race only works if you agree to run inside of the race.
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Quotes
“I pay full tuition and I'm driving an older car. I love that guy. There's priorities for you.”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
“Scrolling has become the new smoking.”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
“The truer wealthier people are not people who have a lot of money. They're people who understand what wealth is about, what money is for.”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
“Perhaps God can't take your wealth away from you overnight... But have you considered he could take you away from your wealth overnight?”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
“Happiness, the door to happiness doesn't open inward. It opens outward.”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
“The only people on this planet who haven't got time are currently in a cemetery.”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
“It doesn't matter the year of the car that you drive. It really doesn't.”
Rabbi Noach (Noiky) Roberts
Takeaways
1 Comparison drives the rat race: other people's houses, cars, vacations and success. Stepping out of the race is a choice.
2 Life gets overcomplicated. He argues a simpler life is a better life, even in New York, and bitachon means living without stress because 'God's got this.'
3 Money has utility value. Real wealth is understanding what money is for.
4 He knew someone whose suicide note pointed to people around him showing off wealth and making it look easy. Flashing money hurts others.
5 Truly wealthy families he knows often hate flashing it. They are happy to look shabby.
6 Deathbed regrets are about people, not money: 'I wish I had spent more time with the people that mean the most to me.'
7 Two cousins inherit a treasure. The carefree one loses it without knowing and lives rich; the worrier keeps it and lives poor. For those who trust, Hashem makes a little stretch.
8 Rabbi Akiva's stone: a barrel of water at once does nothing, steady drops cut through. Small, consistent steps change finances, health and Torah learning.
9 Rabbi Twerski's spa story: many people can't sit alone with themselves. The real issue is self-esteem.
10 Rebbeim and teachers should be paid well enough that they never need to leave. He regrets putting students ahead of his own children when he was young.
11 A Ponzi scheme run by someone who looked frum caused a huge chillul Hashem. Honesty applies at every scale.
12 Financial literacy should be taught in schools.