How To Retire a Few Decades Early | Pete Adeney | TEDxBoulder

TEDxBoulder's Andrew Hyde sits down for a brief interview with Pete Adeney (aka Mr. Money Mustache) on the principles of healthy, purposeful living and how that can lead to a much better financial situation in life as well. And the shockingly simple math that connects a healthy life to the ability to reach financial independence many years earlier than you'd expect. Mr Money Mustache is a thirtysomething* retiree who now writes about how we can all live a frugal yet Badass life of leisure.

My (former) wife and I studied engineering and computer science in Canada, then worked in standard tech-industry cubicle jobs in various locations throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s.

Then we retired from real work way back in 2005 in order to start a family. This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50% less expensive than most of our peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx