Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. I quite enjoy reading personal finance books that offer different advice and ideas than the rest, even if I don’t agree with what they have to say. Killing Sacred Cows , by Garrett B. Gunderson, falls into this category. Killing Sacred Cows (ussurprisingly) takes on some financial “myths” that the author argues is destroying your prosperity. As with all such books, it’s an entertaining read and it makes quite a few good points – and quite a few questionable ones. That’s why it’s worth reading – it, at the very least, provokes you into thinking about things. Let’s dig in and see what Gunderson has to say. Myth 1: The Finite Pie Quite often, people convince themselves that the good things in life are scarce. There’s only so much success and money and opportunities to go around, they argue, and they’re jealous of the people that have the things they do not.

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