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I don't want to be rich, I want to be free. But in order to be free, you have to be rich. I turn 27 this month, so these are 27 money lessons I learned in my 20s from building wealth over the last 7 years. I didn't really care about money until I realized it's not about buying all the designer bags, it's about having total and utter control over your time. It hit me sophomore year of college when I was coming home from a semester abroad, and I remember crying in the taxi because I realized I'd never again be in a position where I had enough control over my time to spend even a month in another country. It hit me again when I started my first corporate job, and I realized if I did that for 40 years, I'd be giving up almost 100,000 hours of my life to a corporation that I don't care about. That's when I realized that the actual purpose of money isn't to buy designer, it's to be able to take a walk in the sun at 10:00 a.m. on a Tuesday, to be able to choose your favorite time of day to workout, not just what works for your schedule, to spend more time with your family and less time with a corporation. This lesson is really what started it all for me, and over the next month, I'm sharing all of the tactical money lessons I learned because I was motivated to gain more control over my time and more control over my life. So make sure to follow along.