The Human Element of Money

Vicki Rain: Money is a personality problem, not a problem. I reckon I'm probably about 70% goblin, which is the classic kind of hoarder of money. The one lever that we can pull is getting in touch with emotionally what is it that is driving us to spend? Is it status thing? Is it social anxiety thing? All kinds of reasons might be behind this. For people who are able to spend money as bizarre as it may sound, maybe they've had a trauma in their life and have been told it's wrong to treat yourself on certain things. It's really difficult to break out of these habits - especially if your parents or grandparents brought them up like you