Why Your Investing Brokerage Doesn't Matter

It's a fun waste of time to fret over the details of life like which investing app is the best or whether or not you should buy racing shoes to make you faster....but in the end those kinds of thing matter a LOT less than the more critical stuff. When we invest we need a brokerage to allow us to do what we want to do which is save as much money as possible for our future selves. If they hinder that, it's a problem. But otherwise, most of the options we have a pretty great. We waste a lot of time and energy majoring in the minors. Instead we could be making significant progress in a positive direction that actually helps us accomplish our goals. Let's talk about how I messed this up recently shopping for racing shoes and how we often mess things up looking for the absolute perfect investing service. AND let's talk about a great decision making framework that helps us figure out what is actually worth our time and energy.

⏱Handy Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:38 How we fail
1:23 It's like my shoes
4:09 2 Biggest things to worry about
5:07 Reviews are interesting...but shallow
5:51 Best way to decide
7:00 Spending Spending Spending
8:36 TLDR

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@mere_cat 2 months ago

I finally understand. I kept thinking, “but why the axe?” 😂

@MsTubbytube 2 months ago

"maybe your foot won't burn as bad as the rest of you" 😆

@DrMikeTh 2 months ago

Thank you, appreciate your efforts

@bxdadof3216 1 month ago

Awesome vid! Thanks for sharing it!

@notxasj 1 month ago

I spent a ton of time trying to decide which Linux OS would be best to use on an old laptop and months later still haven't ended up switching anything. Analysis paralysis is annoying. Dongle