Arjun Khemani Podcast

#10 – Andrew Kirby: Hitting Financial Freedom At Age 22, Solving Problems and Happiness

Dec 2, 2022

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Andrew Kirby

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Quick takeaways

Financial freedom at a young age is achievable through online entrepreneurship and self-education.

Prioritize continuous learning, networking, and aligning personal fulfillment with external success for happiness and growth.

Deep dives

Path to Financial Freedom and Entrepreneurship

Starting from a young age, the podcast guest showed early signs of entrepreneurship, like selling products at school. Despite initially pursuing traditional education, they quickly realized the limitations and sought alternative paths by exploring various online opportunities and eventually focusing on creating content about stoicism on YouTube which led them to financial freedom.

Cold DMS Cold Emails Are So Powerful

01:52

Do Things You Don't Want to Do and Still Make Money?

01:43

How Do You Write for Yourself?

01:57

Introduction

3min

The Seeds of Entrepreneurship

3min

The Permissionless Apprentice Is One of the Few Real Shortcuts to Success

3min

Cold DMS Cold Emails Are So Powerful

2min

How Do You Invest in Your Education?

2min

What Are Your Goals?

2min

You Don't Need to Work for Free, You Make Money Work for You

2min

Are You a Permissionless Apprentice?

3min

How Do You Prioritize Your Time?

2min

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The Beginning of Infinity

6min

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Writing Matters More Than Reading

3min

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Should You Create for Yourself or for Others?

2min

13.

What Is Happiness?

5min

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The Meaning of Life

2min

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Do Things You Don't Want to Do and Still Make Money?

2min

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Should You Focus on the Journey or on the Destination?

3min

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How Do You Write for Yourself?

2min

Andrew Kirby is a YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers who became financially free at age 22 by synthesizing content on the Internet.

We talk about the path Andrew takes to attain financial freedom at age 22, how to write good cold DMs, entrepreneurship, misconceptions around money, The Beginning of Infinity and Andrew’s most influential books, the pursuit of creation, happiness and much more!

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Andrew’s backstory // his entrepreneurial childhood

4:50 - How Andrew became financially free at 22 // being a permission-less apprentice

9:15 - The shortcut to writing good Cold DMs

12:18 - What Andrew invests in

13:24 - Understanding is the purest form of power // Andrew’s big goals

15:42 - Money can be boiled down to solving people’s problems

19:15 - Say yes to everything at first, then say no // how to prioritize

22:30 - BOOKS!

30:45 - Creating for yourself vs. creating for others

34:37 - Happiness and the meaning of life