https://www.roadtofire.eu/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Road to FIRE Hugo en-us Road to FIRE Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0100 https://www.roadtofire.eu/posts/road-to-fire/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0100 https://www.roadtofire.eu/posts/road-to-fire/ <h2 id="the-debut">The debut</h2> <p>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.</p>