The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Unabridged)
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4.5 • 136 Ratings
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- £10.99
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Publisher Description
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.
In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Being “good with money” might seem like a question of intellect, but as financial expert Morgan Housel explains in this illuminating listen, wealth has more to do with the heart than with the head. With an approachable style, Housel gets into just how much of the way we save, spend, and invest has to do with our emotional behaviors rather than our savvy with numbers. Then, by applying lessons from history, psychology, and politics to everyday life, he offers practical strategies for how we can change those behaviors and make better choices. We really connected with the way Housel explores concepts like luck and risk, not to mention the compelling stories he uses to illustrate his points (like why so much of Warren Buffett’s impressive net worth came after his 65th birthday). Narrator Chris Hill has a smooth cadence that’s a great match for Housel’s intimate approach. Get ready to understand your relationship with money on a whole new level.
Customer Reviews
Great book
Great book
One of the best FinDev books I listen to.
Cements the principals of personal finance through stories. Passed on to my teenage daughter with the though “I wish I new this at 18”.
A Welcome Lesson
I’m not one to listen to books on finance mainly because I feel that they can get very complicated quite quick. However, this book was a welcome discussion on how we typically think about money and the consequences in our thinking.
My only issue was that there seems to be some repeated audio in the audiobook that the publisher should have cleared up before putting it out. Not a flaw on the author so 5 stars well deserved.
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