Housel’s thesis is that ‘financial success is not a hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know.’
Arguing to support this point he gives a small comparison. Given that health and wealth are important to everyone, how can we have made such advancements in the medical field yet find ourselves unchanged in the domain of wealth creation?
Good question.
There is a growing body of research that points towards a more plant-based diet being good for 1. your personal health, and 2. reducing your environmental impact. Besides, it’s undeniable that abstaining from eating meat and dairy will reduce the number of animals that suffer unnecessarily.
How often do you get to do three good things with one simple action?
Anyone who knows me well knows I’m passionate about money. It’s not the money per se that interests me, it’s the idea of freedom and choice that having it represents. I haven’t always been this way – though saving money has always been easy for me.
Here are my 6 essentials for money management.