Conversations with Alex Roupell

A rich life is not built by looking rich. It is built by understanding what money is for. In an inflationary world, the important question is not simply how much you earn. It is how much security, time and freedom your money helps you create after housing, bills, taxes, debt, habits and the occasional terrible decision have taken their share. Money matters. It can provide safety, opportunity and breathing room. But the aim is not to spend your entire life accumulating it. The

Most of us were taught how to pass exams, write essays, memorise formulas and sit still under fluorescent lights for much of our childhood. Very few of us were taught how to look after the body expected to do all of that. When concentration disappears, we tend to blame motivation, or the dreaded “P” word, procrastination. We reach for another coffee, download a new productivity app or promise ourselves that tomorrow we will finally become a morning person. Sometimes the probl