How Money Messes Up Weddings (and it’s got nothing to do with the cost of them)
Weddings are a wonderful window into the madnesses of our relationships with money
Money Blind
Seeing your money worldview (and thus making decisions involving money) in a wiser way. If Socrates gave financial advice... (with help from McGilchrist, Vervaeke, and Fromm)
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How to spend almost nothing, feel the opposite of deprivation, and live fabulously
Why does the way we try to meet our desires so often mess us up instead?
A few puzzles of planning for retirement
The goal of retirement directs so many lives. It feels like the ultimate sensible thing to do. Yet for almost as many, it’s more than a bit mad.
You cannot buy anything you actually want
You cannot buy anything you actually want.
The emotional roots of money
All financial advice is mostly right, and also mostly dumb
Money! Huh! What is it good for?
Selective attention, money, and keeping your focus where you want it to be
Stop saying your goal is to retire when you (yes you) could’ve done so yesterday
Everybody aims for retirement, yet nobody knows why, nor even what they mean by it
How do you prepare for living better with money? (aka National Service, personal-finance style)
If there were a form of National Service designed to best prepare people for living well, what would it look like?
Ambition v Aspiration (and how prioritising 'achievement' can lead to a really sucky life)
If you fully know why you’re pursuing something, it’s probably not worth pursuing
The ‘Perfect Day Exercise’ and the short-sightedness of modern goal setting
The ‘Perfect Day Exercise’ is a perfect example of how to be entirely ‘right’ in everything you say, and entirely wrong in the context you’re saying it.