Why is passive income important to us?

为什么被动收入对我们而言很重要？

There are loads of different ways of you generating passive income.

有很多不同的方法能够产生被动收入。

And these guys have a passive income of billions of dollars every year.

这些家伙每年都有数十亿美元的被动收入。

What happens if you do get your passive income?

如果你有被动收入的话会发生什么事？

The opposite of that is passive income, or recurring income.

反之则是被动收入，或是经常性收入。

And the best form of passive income, hands down which is making money in little to no time, is investing that money.

最好的被动收入形式，就是金钱投资，能够在短时间内赚到唾手可得的钱。

Examples of passive income include renting out a spare room or selling old clothes online.

被动收入的例子包括出租闲置房间或在线出售旧衣服。

But the main thing I want to get across to you is what happens if you don't focus on building up passive income.

但是我要传达给你的重点是如果你没有专注于建立起被动收入会发生什么事。

Today, I'm going to share with you about passive income, and how to design your dream life through building up your passive income's dreams.

今天，我要和你们分享一下关于被动收入，以及如何通过建立被动收入来实现你的梦想人生。

I was here, it's like you've said, I was at B Block, Derwent uni, and I knew nothing about passive income.

我当时在这里，像你们讲的，我在德温特大学 B 栋，而我对被动收入一无所知。

In theory, passive income is just what it sounds like money you earn without performing the active labor of a typical day job.

从理论上讲，被动收入就是您在不执行典型日常工作的积极劳动的情况下赚取的钱。

So you might need residual income to get your side hustles off the ground, but eventually that passive income may lead to additional residual income.

所以你可能需要剩余收入来让你的副业开始工作，但最终被动收入可能会带来额外的剩余收入。

When your passive income, the recurring income, exceeds your cost of living what you spend on food, utilities, petrol, all that kind of stuff, when your passive income exceeds your cost of living, then you were financially free.

当你的被动收入或经常性收入，超越你的生活开销，也就是你花在食物、水电、汽油这些东西上的费用。当你的被动收入超过你的生活开销，那你就获得财务自由。

I started to read, and I've read about real life case studies, not billionaires or these incredibly talented people but normal people who had picked a strategy, there are lots of ways of bringing in passive income.

我开始阅读，并看了很多关于真实生活的案例研究，不是亿万富翁，也不是那些才华洋溢的人而是一个决定了策略的普通人，有很多方法可以带来被动收入。