31. “Shopping at Target is like visiting a casino to me”
Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
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John, You're Taking Away From Your Retirement?
In order to be confident with your money, you have to be competent basic money competence would mean understanding which number he can reasonably achieve. John doesn't realize what he's doing, but he is over complicating the situation. He's flooding it with so many details that it just wears the other person down and they give up. It's the same technique used by cigarette manufacturers when they used to flood the market place with all these questions. Same as climate change deniers who flood social media with disinformation. In john's case, there's a huge difference between eight thousand dollars and 20 thousand dollars. But john is just talking about numbers like they're interchangeable. Another idea could john take from hus
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