Welcome to The Quiet Rich, your weekly email for a quiet mind and a rich life. My partner bet me that I couldn’t write a newsletter about dragons. So here it is:

CONTEXT

The other night, we watched the new How To Train Your Dragon. It was an excellent film. So excellent, in fact, that we talked about dragons for at least an hour afterwards.

And I realized that I don’t want an ordinary life.

I want a life with magic.

And maybe it won’t look like cauldrons and spells. Maybe magic isn't waiting in some far-off fantasy world. It's hiding in plain sight, in the mundane moments you've stopped noticing. 

The real challenge is training yourself to see it again.

Children are natural dragon-seekers. They find wonder in puddles, turn cardboard boxes into castles, and see animals in clouds. Then we grow up. We trade imagination for optimization and mistake routine for stability. 

So how do you reclaim that sense of wonder? How do you find your dragons?

METHOD

3 ways to bring more magic into your life:

1. Pick one fantasy novel to read this quarter

If you’ve been part of The Quiet Rich for a while, you know I’ve always adored nonfiction self-help books. Four Thousand Weeks. Essentialism. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. All beautiful books.

But as I’ve been writing my own nonfiction book, I wanted to expand my literary horizon. So I started reading fantasy. And it has genuinely made my world bigger.

My mom and I just started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses together. I’ve also been recommended The Name of the Wind, Circe, and The Way of Kings. Pick books that make you feel the way you did as a kid staying up past bedtime with a flashlight.

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

Fantasy novels don't just let you escape reality—they teach you to see it differently. After spending hundreds of pages in a world where magic is real, I return to my own life with new eyes.

Which brings me to my next tip:

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2. Collect "proof of magic"

Start a photo album on your phone. Maybe even label it "Dragons."

Add photos of moments that gave you that inexplicable feeling—the one you can't quite name but you know when you feel it. Not beautiful things. Not perfect things. Things that made you feel something.

Your dog's reaction when you come home. The way the light hit your wall at sunrise. Your toddler’s drawing. A video of the moment a song's chorus hit at a concert and you felt it in your chest. Your mom’s handwriting.

You're building evidence. Proof that your life is already magical—you've just been too busy to document it.

Scroll through that photo album when life feels gray. You'll start noticing patterns—the specific conditions that reliably create magic for you. Then you can engineer more of those moments.

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3. Break one "adult rule" per week

Think about all the arbitrary rules you've invented to seem grown-up. And then do the opposite once a week.

Make pancakes for dinner. Drive with music blasting and all the windows down. Order dessert first at a restaurant. Sit on the floor instead of the couch. Go to the movie theater on a Saturday afternoon to watch a matinée. Wear your favorite fancy outfit to the grocery store.

Why? Because magic lives in the margins of "supposed to." Every time you break a meaningless rule, you're proving to yourself that you're still the author of your own life.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

The happiest people romanticize their life, because they know magic exists where they choose to find it. Magic doesn't announce itself with fanfare. It whispers.

And most of us are too busy, too distracted, too "realistic" to hear it.

Finding your dragons isn't about escaping reality. It's about engaging more deeply—noticing the extraordinary tucked inside the ordinary. It's about staying curious in a world that rewards certainty.

It's about choosing to be enchanted by your one wild, brief life.

Much love,

Jade

P.S. I want to say a warm congratulations to every single person who joined the January 26th cohort of Archimedes. I’ve always loved the quote, “If anyone is magically going to appear and just suddenly make your life better, just know that person is always going to be you.” – Brianna Pastor.

That’s exactly what each of you is doing by investing in yourself and in your personal brand this year. Ben, Colby, and I can’t wait to meet you next Tuesday.

If you haven’t applied yet, there are only 2 days left! Fill out the quick form before Wednesday at JoinArchimedes.com. The final day to check out is Friday, Jan 23rd.

I decided to post on LinkedIn for the first time 3 years ago. Because of that one bet on myself, I’ve crossed 1 million followers across platforms, landed a major book deal with my dream publisher, and quit my full-time role at Google to work for myself.

You’re capable of so much more magic than you think.