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People with day jobs tell me they don’t have time to start something new.
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I worked at J.P. Morgan.
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But I wanted to do something new.
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So I carved out space wherever I could.
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Lunch breaks at the New York Public Library.
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I spent 4 years researching.
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Studied ancient coins in Vietnam. (Part of my job was traveling around the world for transactions)
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Explored archaeological sites in Bangladesh.
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Examined the biology of exchange while in the Galapagos.

That became Coined: The Rich Life of Money And How Its History Shaped Us.
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​Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus wrote the foreword.
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It became a NYT bestseller, praised by Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, and Paul Volcker.
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Even Jamie Dimon congratulated me.

You don’t need to quit your job to start something meaningful.
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(Though I left JPM the day my book came out.)
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You just need a sliver of time and the will to use it.

👉🏽 Your best investment is you.
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-Kabir

PS – What Jamie Dimon asked me​

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​Seven Point Sunday – August 17
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