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Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
Money was supposed to provide safety. Instead, an obsession with money made me feel anxious and inadequate... I was also setting myself up to feel miserable. Because, frankly, I haven’t been very good at money—at making it, compounding it, keeping track of it, and protecting it. Using money as a scorecard was bound to lead to perpetual ... See more
Frederik Gieschen • Gratitude, Desire, and a Money Paradox
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There are real ramifications of reading these articles for decades and decades. You start to believe it. You start to think the only way to manage money is to hoard it and create an increasingly long list of noes. Soon, the guilt isn’t just coming from money experts and the outside world. It’s coming from you.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
To successfully break free of one's chains, one must build an overarching philosophy of what it means to live, which is different from the consumer philosophy of "follow advice/orders; work; get paycheck; spend paycheck; get stuff; repeat." Those who merely try to implement small changes like "25 Frugal Tips To Save Money" to ha
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Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018
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Most of us fall into one of two camps regarding our money: We either ignore it and feel guilty, or we obsess over financial details by arguing interest rates and geopolitical risks without taking action.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
"Any maximizing, economistic approach to living becomes a kind of hoarding as the means and ends reverse and it tips over into irrationality. It’s hoarding when I keep opening tabs, when I try to get to the end of my RSS article queue, when I use iTunes play counts to organize my listening habits, when I buy books I won’t live to read, when all ema... See more
Rob Horning • Clutter images
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This is holding all of us back. We live in the world of my money and your money. Our money isn’t quite here yet, except within the confines of romantic partnerships, families and businesses.
Braid • On Multiplayer Fintech
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