How Hard is it to Achieve Financial Freedom — and How Long Does it Take?
9 min readFeb 17, 2021
Good questions. To answer them, though, we need first to discuss what financial freedom really is and what it means to achieve it.
A critical component of personal freedom is financial freedom: having enough financial assets to generate income that will cover your living expenses without the need for any kind of employment (except for personal pleasure, fulfillment, or altruism). The individual components of financial freedom are pretty straightforward — there are only two:
