Your Money Or Your Life is a cornerstone of the personal finance genre despite its atrocious title. It was written in 1992 and has influenced millions of people since.
It gives a 9-step process so readers can focus on distinct elements of their financial life independently from one another.
Our biological brains are masters of creative thinking. They detect patterns and create links between seemingly unrelated topics. However, they aren’t so good at storing large amounts of information.
Forte advances the idea that just as we can improve the physical capacities of our bodies with tools, we can also create tools to increase the storage capacity of our brains.
Essentially, we can build a second brain.
Whatever your stage of life, it won’t hurt to pay attention to money, the ways to preserve it, and the ways to make it grow.
It will be even more useful if you start early, but not everyone has this liberty. In any case, here are my picks for the 5 Best Books about Finance.
The premise of Kondo’s book is that one’s environment should spark joy and that you should feel happy when surrounded by your material possessions. She encourages you to do this not only by getting rid of objects in the tidying push but rather by focusing on the objects that give you pleasure.
Who’s going to argue with that?
In Facing the Climate Emergency Margaret Klein Salamon starts with an impressive call to arms. She invokes the hero’s journey and states quite clearly how much the climate crisis matters and that you have a calling in life. It seems a bit dramatic at first, but in light of the global climate crisis, she’s probably right.