The debut My history with FIRE dates back to a few years. But even before getting to know the FIRE ideology, as a teen boy, I already had a very clear and immature projection on how my future money situation would be: a very successful entrepreneur counting my money in millions! I began reading books about money pretty early on and that just gave me a false confidence that I knew a lot about money and that it would be easy to be rich. I even discussed those subjects with my friends (with similar interests of course) with such confidence that people believed me as if I had achieved great wealth, even though I had nothing to show for. ...