{"id":5453,"date":"2021-04-25T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T02:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2021-04-25T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T02:06:26","slug":"psychology-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/psychology-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology of money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up the psychology of money by Morgan housel; last week. The summary of the book happens to be two things:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Own your time or independence&nbsp;<\/li><li>Live your life instead of chasing someone else&#8217;s or, consumerism should not lead life.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I could relate to the book because most parts made me realize I am reading recycled philosophy books of Seneca and Epictetus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author cites many books and many short stories iterating his observation. I particularly liked the example of the guy who lived a frugal life but donated 6-8 million USD to the hospital and library. He died wealthy not rich. He believed in compounding his wealth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would especially recommend this book to people in their early 20&#8217;s just starting their career. They are the ones most easily fooled by the glamorous, Instagram life and consumerism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the psychology of money by Morgan housel; last week. The summary of the book happens to be two things:&nbsp; Own your time or independence&nbsp; Live your life instead of chasing someone else&#8217;s or, consumerism should not lead life.&nbsp; I could relate to the book because most parts made me realize I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/psychology-of-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Psychology of money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100],"tags":[1119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}