Putting a little time into understanding personal finances provides one of the greatest ROI’s in life. The best time to start paying down debts and saving for retirement is yesterday. The second best time is today. The only problem is personal finance is a seemingly boring or anxiety-inducing subject for many people. Although there are dozens of great personal finance podcasts, many of them have hundreds of episodes each and it can get overwhelming to know where to start.
The goal of this free podcourse is to provide a curated selection of podcasts that serve as an accessible foundation for taking control of your financial situation. There are plenty of tips and strategies below, but there are also discussions around the psychology of money and stories of student loan debt.
What You'll Learn:
- Why humans are bad at predicting how much actually getting what we want will make us happy (exhibit A: the amount of unhappy millionaires).
- The reason why there is a diminishing return for how much additional money will make us happy (above a threshold about 75k).
- How to pay down your debts in the most psychologically pleasing way as well as the mathematically best way.
- What the 4% and 25x rules mean for planning for the amount of money you’ll need to retire.
- How to think through what your money goals really are.
- How to spend extravagantly on the things you love and to cut costs ruthlessly on the things you don’t.
- The benefits and pitfalls of the FIRE (Financially Independent/Retire Early) movement.
- Why long-term, set-it-and-forget-it methods of investing are best for the majority of people (even during a pandemic).
- Why index funds are a great low-cost solution to long-term savings and which ones to check out.
- Why bitcoin or similar crypto currencies should only be played around with using “fun money”, not with money that would otherwise go into retirement accounts.
- That if you have crushing student loan debt, you are not alone and there is hope.
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