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How to invest romantically
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Read moreDespite the title, no, this post isn’t about how to find commitment with your significant other. I’m talking about financial, not emotional investment, and I’m talking about the romance of believing things into existence, not your love life.
To invest wisely, I think one needs to have a reasonable belief that investing those resources will result in something new and valuable. If you invest money in building a dairy farm, hopefully you believe that the money will help build a barn with cows that produce milk twice a day. A successful investment means that the barn really does get built and the milk gets produced.
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What does romance have to do with our economy?
Read moreI believed we could build our farm together by being good at business and I didn’t realize she needed me to be good at romance.
Which is more important to the success of a farm: business sense — or romance? You may be surprised to hear that, after wrestling with this topic for the last five years, my answer is romance. The quote above is from the conclusion of The Hands that Feed Us, summing up what I’ve learned from looking at how farmers live — and what makes them successful.
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