Simplify Your Life | Henry David Thoreau

I'm A.J. Hoog, author of Effortless English, Learn to Speak English Like a Native. Join my VIP program at EffortlessEnglishClub.com and you speak English fluently. You speak English powerfully.

You speak English effortlessly at EffortlessEnglishClub.com EffortlessEnglishClub.com That's my website. That's where all my courses are. Welcome. Today's topic is simplicity.

Simplify your life. We'll be talking about one of my favorite people, certainly perhaps my favorite American, Henry David Thoreau. Those of you who have the Power English course, if you did the whole thing, you'll know that there's a whole lesson about his book, Henry David Thoreau's

Thank you so much for joining us. right now. Thoreau lived in the 19th century, so 1800s, before the American Civil War. So I can't remember. I think he died just before the Civil War started.

So he was like in 1840s, 1850s, 1830s, that time period. Welcome, welcome, by the way, to everyone joining us live now on YouTube. Hello, everyone who's joining live.

Alright, so let's talk about Thoreau. Thoreau was an interesting man. He was a writer. And he was part of a group called the Transcendentalists. It's a long word.

Transcendentalists. In America. I guess there were some of them in England as well. So, Transcend. Transcend. To transcend is a verb. Transcend. You'll see this in religious writings a lot.

To transcend means to go beyond. To go past. To go beyond. To go beyond what? If you're talking about religion or philosophy, it means go beyond this material life, right?

Of just the body. Of just the body and things, right? So, it's really... talking about the spiritual life, the life of the spirit or soul. And indeed, the transcendentalists were quite focused on that.

But what's interesting, they also focused quite a lot on the beauty of nature, believing nature was created by God, and then they very much loved nature. They wrote about nature, poetry and books and essays about nature.

So Thoreau was one of these, and he wrote quite a lot about nature and the natural world. And he wrote quite a lot about... you know the modern world and the coming modern world so when Thoreau was writing as an adult when he was alive you know this was the time when trains when railroads were starting to you know go everywhere and it was you know in many ways the beginning of the modern world you know they had the telegraph

which is electricity, all these things were starting, and so no cars yet, but still the train certainly changed America and the world quite a lot. So, he could already see what was coming, right? That's why his writing is quite amazing, because he could see what was coming. He could see the materialism, right?

People were so focused on technology and money and things, things, things, and he rejected that. He saw that was empty and meaningless and that people were being kind of sucked into this materialistic thing.

And it was a disaster. He believed it was a disaster for America and for the world. And I think we can all agree he was right. Right? So now, you know what, 150 years later, or more, you know, all the things he wrote about are much, much, much, much, much more extreme.

Some of you may know Emerson. Emerson was another. Emerson and Thoreau were friends, in fact. They were friends. Good friends. So, let's talk about what if Thoreau, what was, so that he, Thoreau criticized materialism, right?

This focus on things and money. And in his book, Walden, he writes quite a lot about this, about how everybody's trying to get bigger houses, bigger houses. So, even then, right? This is 1830s and 40s.

And it was, of course, it's probably, this has probably been true for, you know, most of human history, really. But he could see that it was getting worse, where everyone was chasing more money, more money, more money, bigger houses, bigger houses, more things, more things.

the focus was changing most in the normal people's lives. Instead of focusing on family and religion and God, they were focusing on money and things, possessions, getting more and more things, making more and more money, working, working, working, working. And he could see this already, that people were becoming slaves, slaves to money, slaves to work.

So he criticized this quite a lot and showed how ridiculous it was, how foolish it was. And he also had a solution. So he wasn't just negative. He didn't just criticize it.

He had a solution. And his solution was simplicity. Nowadays, many people call it voluntary simplicity. Voluntary simplicity. Voluntary means you choose, right?

So it means living a very simple life, especially talking about money and things, right? It means that you choose, you're not forced to, no one's forcing you to do this. That's quite different when you're forced to not have things, when you're forced to not be able to do things by other people. That's

That's different. This is your choosing to. You choose to live in a smaller house, in a smaller apartment. You choose to spend much less money than you make.

You choose not to buy lots of things. You choose not to buy expensive things. You choose to buy fewer clothes. Maybe you buy used clothes and you wear them a long time.

You simplify your life, especially economically material things. Also, in terms of time, you simplify your life in terms of time, meaning you spend less time working.

Not 40 hours a week, not 50 hours a week. You cut your working time, meaning your job time, working for money. You cut that to be less and less and less of your time.

So this is also part of simplifying your life. This was Thoreau's suggestion, his solution to escape materialism. And he very famously, what he did, he wrote about this in his book, what he decided to do, he was living in a town, and a town where there was a good amount of money, Concord, Massachusetts at that time, Massachusetts, Boston, most of you will know Boston.

It was still, you know, quite a wealthy area. I guess it still probably is somewhat, but then it was even more, right? This was where one of the places the American Revolution started and traditionally one of the early colonies. There were a lot of money up there.

So it was very materialistic. And so he decided to go into the woods. Not that far. He just went outside his town. He walked outside to the town to some woods, meaning an area with a lot of trees, away from where everyone was living.

And with almost no money, with a tiny bit of money, a little bit of money, he bought some nails, like a hammer, a saw for cutting, and some seeds for growing some food.

And he went into the woods, and he built a little house, a very tiny house, one little room, really, not really even a house. We would call it a hut, I think now, H-U-T. So just a tiny one-room, little wooden place to sleep, to stay, with a tiny, you know, little place for a fire. And he lived there.

He lived out there. And basically, and he made a little farm where he grew some food. And he spent almost no money. So he lived very, very, very simply.

And he wrote about his experience. And why did he do this? Why would you do this? Well, number one, the number one advantage for him was time. He didn't need to work.

So he had all day to do anything he wanted. He went for long walks in nature. He loved nature, so he went for long walks. He visited friends. He wrote, because he was a writer, so he would do writing.

He would take naps. He would go fishing. He would read books. He was one of the very first Americans, maybe even Westerners, to, for example, read the Bhagavad Gita.

He actually mentions the Gita, the Bhagavad Gita, he mentions it in his book and how wonderful it is. This is way back in the early 1800s. So he was reading these amazing books. He could read Greek and Latin.

He was very well educated and He had all this time just because he lived a simple life. And then he looked around and he said, you know, look at all these other people in the town.

They have these big houses and they have all these things. But they're slaves. They have to constantly make money, money, money, money, money. They're working 40 hours, 50 hours a week, more, just to get more, more, more money, to buy more, more, more things, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger houses.

It's crazy, right? He's like, why do they need big houses? There's only four or five people in their family, and they have these giant houses. It's crazy.

They're slaves. They make themselves slaves to money. He says, this is insane, it's crazy. Instead, simplify your life and focus on what's most important to you.

Right? So that would be, you know, God, religion, philosophy, learning, family, your health. Right? Just doing hobbies, just getting out in nature. All these wonderful things that now people, a lot of people don't do much because they're working so much.

Right? That they say, oh, I don't have time to do any of this. Or people tell me about homeschooling their children. Oh, I don't have time, I got to work.

Well, simplify your life, right? And this advice is even more important now. If you want to have lots of time to study English, lots of time to relax, lots of time to go into nature, lots of time with your children, lots of time to, you know, for...

Your religious practice. Lots of time for your family. Lots of time for friends. Lots of time for hobbies. Anything that's important to you. Simplify your life.

Don't work so much. Work less. Work less. And you do this by simplifying. In other words, if we're talking about money, you have to cut your spending.

A lot. A lot. A lot. meaning a big percentage. You've got to cut your spending. For example, rent. Rent is the big one. I always say this. The first place to start is where you live, your housing, rent or mortgage.

If you bought a house, then your loan payment is probably very large compared to your income. For most people, it is. And also for rent, most people pay a very large amount of their money

each month, for rent. So, for most people, for most people, rent is, you know, housing, let's say, is the number one place you can simplify. It's the best place to start. Cut your spending for housing.

We think we need these big places, these big apartments, but we don't. We don't. You can live in one... If you're alone, if you're single and you're alone...

You need almost nothing. When I was single and alone myself, I've talked about it many times. Sorry, I'll adjust my microphone here. I lived in my car for one summer and then I lived in my van, which is kind of a little bit bigger car.

I lived for a whole year. Why? To avoid rent, to pay zero rent. And even when I have paid rent, I've lived in very, very, very, very, very small apartments

And I lived in Thailand. I lived in a tiny one-room apartment. No air con in Thailand. And it cost less than $100 a month. Less. It was like $80 a month.

Something like that. Quite cheap compared to my income. So, fantastic. This is the place. And even now, when I have a good income, a very good income, our family, we live in a quite modest apartment in Japan.

We could buy some giant house, I guess. We've looked at houses, but it's crazy to spend so much money on that. So, we just continue to live very simply.

Therefore, I don't need to work much. You know, that's the point. You get, by simplifying your life, you get time. Most people are excuses. Oh, I don't have enough time.

I don't have enough time to... homeschool. I don't have enough time to do all my hobbies. I don't have enough time to do English all day. I don't have enough time for a good exercise program.

It's always the excuse people make. You do have enough time if you simplify your life. Then you have plenty of time every day. That's the point. Get your freedom.

You get your freedom by simplifying your life. Cut your rent and then start looking at your other expenses. Where are you spending money? and start cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting your expenses that you don't need.

We need much less than we think. All right, that's it. It's just a very, very simple little message today. I'll just go to some comments and questions, answer a few comments and questions, and then I'm going to go, because I'm actually taking my kids to the zoo today, so it's going to be a shorter show today.

All right, so I'll just go back here and let's look at some of our comments and questions. Just lots of people saying hello, so hello to everyone. Are my programs still available? Yes, EffortlessEnglishClub.com.

If you're watching on video, you'll see on the screen EffortlessEnglishClub.com. Go to my website. That's where all my courses are. All my programs are there.

Smurf says, how's jiu-jitsu going? It's going all right. Okay. Little by little. Up and down, as always. Up and down. But, you know, I like it. I'm enjoying it.

I've started doing... In terms of jiu-jitsu and just physical, I've started doing some strength training again, finally. A little extra to just try to make my legs stronger, make my joints stronger, like my knees, you know, and...

elbows and shoulders and things, so we'll see how it goes. All right, I'm just looking through comments, guys, looking for comments or questions. Lots of people are saying thank you, and thank you to you as well.

Kelvin Tavares says, Greetings from Brazil. Can I be an English coach even if I don't have a college degree? Sure. Why not? If you speak English well, then you can help others speak English well.

Right? So, yeah, you certainly could. A college degree is meaningless in terms of language teaching. It doesn't mean anything. You don't need it. So...

Absolutely, absolutely, you can. So good luck. Good luck to you, right? Anu Kumari says, Jai Shri Krishna, Jai Shri Krishna, indeed, Hare Krishna. Okay, here's Anna.

Hey, Anna, good to see you. Anna Grigoreva says, I used to have a car and it was really expensive to serve it. This is another good point. I decided to sell it and get to my work by train.

It's really cheaper and secure. Indeed, in many countries, for many people, car would be number two in terms of expenses. Of course, buying the car can be expensive.

Insurance can be expensive. It depends on which country you're in, how old your car is. and then just repairs and things, right? So, indeed, having a car can be expensive.

So, the good news is, in many countries, you do have a good train service, a good bus services, and you don't need a car, like here in Japan. Absolutely not necessary in most places.

We have a car, but we almost never use it, because the train system is so great, I just use the trains all the time. So, that's great. Fantastic. Fantastic.

So this would be another area. Now, some places, like a lot of places in America, you really must have a car because there's no decent train system. There's no good bus system.

It's very based on cars. It's a big country. But in some places, you don't need a car, and that's a great way to cut some expenses too. Olga, good to see you also.

Olga Kalashnikova says, my husband works from home. I work part-time, but I love my job very much and I work on myself. We live in a little apartment with our daughter and we like it. See, yeah, just, you know, simple, simple, simple.

You don't need a lot. We don't need a lot. We're constantly being sold, you know, we're constantly being marketed to and especially in media, especially like television and even movies where they try to give us this idea that

Having giant houses and expensive cars and expensive clothing is somehow important, somehow will make us happier. It's a lie. It won't. Totally unnecessary.

We don't need it. It doesn't help. And in fact, trying to make money just to get that stuff will make you stressed out and less happy. So, yeah, that's not necessary.

Lookbaum says, there are a lot of temptations out there. How can we overcome it, AJ? Well, I think you overcome these desires, these temptations, as you say, by recognizing that they are meaningless.

Like, they're not temptations if you don't want them. Right? Like, I don't want a bigger house. So... I guess if we could find a little house with a yard, like a little more out in the countryside, yeah, that'd be nice.

That'd be nice. But I don't need it. But it would be nice, but I'm not going to spend lots of money on it. So I think that's how you do it. You've got to recognize.

You've got to really think about it and recognize that you don't need it. And one way to do that is by cutting your expenses, by living more simply and realizing, oh, this is fine.

I lived in my car, in my van, and it was a very good experience. I enjoyed it. I didn't suffer at all. It was quite nice, and I loved having the extra time.

And then after that experience, I realized, wow, I don't need much. Of course, I kind of had that idea also because I used to go camping a lot with just a little small tent, or even not even a tent, just a tarp. And I also realized, well, I'm totally comfortable out here in the mountains with my little, tiny little piece of plastic over my head and a sleeping bag and a little gas stove and I'm totally comfortable and fine.

So, I don't need that much, right? You don't need much. When you realize that, it's not tempting anymore. You don't really, you're like, well, you don't even want this stuff.

You're just like, oh, how would I work, work, work, work, work just to get a, a house that's two times bigger, what's the point? You know, if you've got a bunch of extra money, maybe you can do it. But the point is you compare it to your income, right?

So for your income, keep things simple. Okay. Okay. My son is saying zoo, dada, zoo. I know, I know, I know. Okay, so Ali says, I've been listening to your podcast from a couple of years ago until now.

I realize in your older podcast, your energy is less than now. Your energy is increasing as you're aging. That's nice. Good to know. It goes up and down sometimes, you know.

But day to day, you'll definitely notice a difference. But... Yeah, that's good. Good to know. Probably doing... I'm more consistently exercising now.

I do jiu-jitsu three days a week. And like I said, just now I'm starting a strength program again. So jiu-jitsu plus the extra strength program. I don't want to do too much, right?

But that and... Yeah, I'm probably just happier in my life. That helps too. Can you talk about NVDA? Nope, I have no idea. Some kind of stock thing or something?

I don't know. MMM says, I'm from Brazil, but I'm living in Texas for four and a half years. But I live in Texas four and a half, have lived in Texas four and a half years. Nice.

Here's a bit of a challenge. Nong Ong says, I want to live a simple life, but my wife doesn't. Can you suggest how can I achieve this? Ideally, you figure this out with whoever you marry before you get married.

I already knew my wife also likes to live very simply. She spends less money than I do. She's very, very disciplined. um so uh you know so there's no conflict at all no problem we never it's funny because people talk about like money is like one of the big stresses of marriages and we we never fight about money we never even talk about it hardly

But because both of us have the same idea about living very simply, our expenses are so low compared to our income. She likes that. I like it. And so there's zero stress about money and there are zero arguments about it.

Like I said, we really never even talk about it. Almost never. So that's great. It'll help your marriage a lot, right? Because if you read articles and you hear from people and that

this can actually become a super big problem with a lot of people's marriages, money, finances. How do you deal with someone, if you have a wife or husband, that does not want to, well, it depends. If you're the one making the money, then you've got, you can kind of force it a little. I know you don't want to ideally force things in a marriage, but you can certainly, you've got some leverage, right?

If you're the one making most of the money, you could, so you're going to maybe just start negotiating and making cuts here, making cuts there, little by little.

Yeah, so here's another person saying, Gustavo Biel, I'll try to convince my wife to rent a smaller apartment. Yeah, I feel for you guys if you marry someone who is caught up in the materialistic idea. Um,

You have then that extra struggle then. So, those of you who are not married yet, be careful. And this should be something you agree on with the person. You need to not just agree on, but you need to look at how they live.

And you should definitely, this is something when you're considering a husband or wife, you should look, how do they manage their money? Very important.

Are they super materialistic? Are they always spending more money than they have? If so, you might want to avoid them and not marry them because that can destroy, it destroys a lot of marriages. So you want to be careful.

So those of you who are not married yet, I would include this as you're looking at possible marriage partners. This should be one of those areas that's very important to look at. It seems you think, oh, well, that seems materialistic money, right? But no, it's very important because there's a spiritual part to it.

I think ultimately it's not just economic, it's spiritual. And if this person who you like, maybe you're attracted to them, but they are very materialistic, they're spending money, they have no discipline with money, they want more, more, more, more, more, they believe this whole materialistic idea, keep making more money, keep getting bigger houses, keep getting more stuff. And if you don't believe that...

your marriage most likely will not work, or it's not going to be very happy. So, be careful. Yeah, like, so Anna, follow up, Anna says, my family and I used to live in a rented apartment. It took a lot of money.

We decided to buy our own small flat, small but comfortable. There you go. Yeah. Small and simple doesn't mean dirty. It doesn't mean dangerous. Right?

You can still... You can have... What's Gandhi's quote? Neat, clean, and dignified. I think something like that. So, obviously, Gandhi also pushed this idea very much of simplicity.

And... But Gandhi and Thoreau both made the point that you can live very simply. You can have a very, very tiny place to live, for example, apartment or house.

It can be tiny, but it can be very clean and safe and a very warm, still very good home. It doesn't have to be big and expensive. And if it's small and cheap, it doesn't have to be dirty or dangerous or none of that. So that's not what we're talking about.

So very good points. Oh yeah, sorry I missed last week, guys. I got a little busy with the kids. Okay, there's a couple more and I'm going to go because my kids are waiting for me to go to the zoo.

Okay. You're very energetic because of your haircut. Says Magalita Lanz. Joke. Yes. Maybe. Love from India. Thank you. Jeremy Javier says, Greetings from Panama City.

Nice. I like your philosophy. You're my English coach. I'd like to go to Panama someday. I'd like to go to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua... You know, I've been to Honduras.

I've been to Guatemala. But the other countries in Central America, I have not. Oh, and here's someone from Nicaragua also. Nice. Andre Ortiz Baltondano.

Okay. Yeah, this is nice. Gabriel Inacio says, we could say that the people who are truly rich are those who wish less and decide to live a simpler life.

Well, this is more or less what Thoreau was saying, like what Thoreau taught and what he wrote about in his book, that indeed, he asked this question in his book, what is wealth really?

If you have a giant house, but you're working here, 40, 50, 60 hours away from your family and you don't have time for anything else, are you really wealthy?

Yes, you're house wealthy, but in terms of real wealth, meaning abundance in your life, you don't have an abundance of time available, you don't have an abundance of

you know, for health, you don't have an abundance for relationships and love and family and all these other things, then it's a very limited kind of wealth, just having a lot of things or a big giant house.

And really, what do you gain? This is the thing that another way to really ask the question. Let's say you're living in your apartment now or house and imagine then next year you get

another one and it's two times bigger it's two times bigger than your current place what did what do you really gain i mean like what what's the real benefit in your life you've got a lot you got more space in your house but uh but you know what if you have to pay two times more for that

Is it worth it? If you need space, just go outside. That's my attitude. Always my feeling. My idea is that I don't like to stay inside a lot. I don't like to be in my house a lot.

More now with my kids because I play with them and stuff. But if I want space, if I'm feeling like things are too small, just go out. This is what Thoreau did. He was in the woods.

He was just outdoors all the time. And you got all the space of the whole big sky in the whole world So, yeah, good point. Amina, good to see you. Okay, I'll take just a couple more.

I look dehydrated, someone says. Maybe. I had jujitsu yesterday. Maybe I need to drink more. Luckbaum says, there are two ways to live life. One is living simply, another one is YOLO, you only live once, which is the idea of buy lots of stuff, get experiences through buying stuff.

But is that living? Because this is the idea that's pushed. He's right about this, or she. But this idea of buying lots of stuff, what kind of experience is that really?

Like, you know, I've stayed in very expensive hotels a few times, going to conferences. It's nothing. Like, I just thought, I did it a couple times, because, you know, there would be like a conference, a seminar I would go to, and they would host it at this, like an expensive hotel.

And so I would stay there, because it's the same hotel, right, convenient. And I would think, God, there's nothing that special. The decoration's a little nicer, but what's the extra money for? It's not really any real benefit, deep benefit or anything.

This is crazy. I would never spend money on this normally. I don't even like those expensive hotels. They're not a good value at all. So a lot of times, this idea, you only live once.

This idea of just, you know, it's a hedonistic idea is what it is. Hedonism means living for physical pleasure. Right? This is what this phrase means.

YOLO. It just means live for physical pleasure. And the idea is that buying a lot of things will give you more pleasure. But not really. Even the basic idea is a lie.

It will give you pleasure for a moment. And then it's gone. And then you've got to do it again. And then the pleasure is even shorter. And then you've got to do even more.

It's like drugs, right? And eventually, you get no pleasure. You're a billionaire. You can buy anything. But you get really no pleasure from any of it.

In the end, it's empty. And it is not... These people are always putting stuff on Instagram and everything to try to make it look like their life is so exciting. It's not.

I think it's a lie. In most cases, it's a lie. And they're putting it out there. And what they're really looking for is status. And this is what I think a lot of the spending of money and getting really expensive things, it's more about trying to show everybody else, I'm better than you.

I'm richer than you. Look at me. Look at me. It's a way to get attention. Because... these things don't actually bring much happiness. Yeah, Anna, with another nice comment, says, my father always said, a cheap life doesn't mean an unhappy life.

The most important thing is to be happy. Indeed. Indeed. Your dad was smart. Yeah, Olga says, I notice when you give 10% of your money... or your salary to someone to help them, that you'll get benefits too.

Yeah. You get something even more. Right. Exactly. All right. I think we're almost done. Yeah. Carlos Freitas with excellent advice. One way, he says, one way that I found to simplify my life is to pay my debts.

This is huge, guys. Don't buy what I don't need. It gives me more mental peace and freedom to do things that are useful for me and my family. This one should be obvious, but I'll say it because I agree with Carlos.

Yeah, don't. Borrow money. This is number one. This is how you... Number one for simplifying. I know it should seem obvious, but don't borrow money. No debts.

Debt free. That should be step one. Because if you're borrowing money, it means you're spending more than you're making. Otherwise, you wouldn't borrow money.

Right? Otherwise, there's no need for debt. So, number one is don't borrow money. Not credit cards. Not bank loans. Not student loans. None of that. Debt free.

Debt free. D-E-B-T. Debt means you owe money. You borrowed money. Yes, that should be really step number one. You can cut your expenses and then use the money.

Pay if you do have debt. If you owe money. Pay it off. Pay it off. Go debt free. Be completely debt free. Don't owe any money to anyone. Oh, my God. So many people, this will help them feel more peace and calm and less stress in life.

Just eliminate debt. Just that little step. For some people, maybe it's not so little right now. But that step is huge for financial calm, for financial peace.

Claudette says, I'm also a teacher in Mexico. I remember I listened to you in 2011. Nice, over 10 years ago. I'm happy to see you here. You look great even younger.

Nice comments today about my youth, my energy. You're still working in your passion. I guess it's the reason. I suppose so. All right, I think this is it.

Claudette Hernandez says, time is money. Do not spend money on things that are not necessary. Yeah, this is a great way to think of it, that money is time. Money equals time, right?

Why is that? Because to make money, you have to spend your time, right, working. For most people, you've got to work. Now, if you have investments, maybe it's a little different, but

Most people are working. That means you're giving your time to get money, right? So really when you buy things, you're spending your time, right? It's like, you know, if you spend $100, it depends how much money do you make per hour.

If you make $20 an hour, that means five hours of your life. You're giving five hours of your life to buy whatever that is. You just gave five hours of your life for that thing. Is it worth it?

A lot of times, no. I can't read the acrylic alphabet, but saying, to have a lot of money means you're smarter than others. Yeah, I think a lot of people think that. Of course, that's not true.

A lot of rich people are stupid. But this is the idea. I think maybe the best way to say it is better, right? this is the message we get a lot is that people who have more money it makes you better you're better than everyone else for some reason which is ridiculously stupid if you have met you know very rich people there's nothing better about them they're certainly not morally better not at all but even in many other ways they're not better right if you have a lot of money if you make a lot of money it means that well sometimes it just means you're lucky right

But it can also just mean you're good at making money. It is a skill. It's a skill. Good at making money. It doesn't mean you're a good parent. It doesn't mean you're a good husband or wife.

It doesn't mean you're a good person. It doesn't mean you're happy. It just means you're good at making money. It's a skill. And it's a somewhat useful skill.

We all need to make some money. So I'm not saying that you need to be a monk. You can be if you want to. But it's not the most important skill. And how you go about using your money is very important.

All right, one more question and then I'm going because I've got to take my kids to the zoo. Okay, we'll end with this one because it's a nice comment. Rajul Rajan says, real wealth is inner peace.

That's a very good answer. Inner peace, right? Inner peace. I think that's a great way to say it. Because, right, if you've got... no matter how much money you have or things you have or big houses or cars or all that stuff, if inside you feel nervous and anxious and stressed and unhappy most of the time, how wealthy are you?

I mean, all those things are useless. Right? On the other hand, if you live a very simple life, But inside, you have a peace and calm and you're happy most of the time and you feel your life and you believe your life and know that your life has meaning and purpose.

That's real wealth. It doesn't matter how big your house is. It doesn't matter how much money is in your bank account. Not important. All right, guys, that's all.

I will see you next time. EffortlessEnglishClub.com That's where my programs are if you want to get one of my English programs. Otherwise, lots of love to you and I'll see you next time.