You can overcome this self-defeating behaviour and decision fatigue by creating money priorities that you can follow. This self-defeating behaviour leads to stress because we are constantly trying to address our money problems. “Financial tunnelling” happens when we have to make lots of small decisions and it’s hard to make bigger decisions. This type of “trickle-down consumption” reduces everyone’s saving rates. “Consumption contagion” is when wealthier people spend more on high-status luxury goods, which leads to more pressure to keep up across the income spectrum. This leads to reduced saving rates and money problems. We all face pressure to shop due to our instant gratification and consumption-based culture in North America.
Rule #1: Strive to save 10% to 20% of your gross income (before taxes) While the examples provided are for Americans, there are many valuable lessons that individual investors from other countries can take away from this book. The book shares 10 simple financial rules that everyone can use to manage their finances. While writing “The Index Card” book, Pollack and Olen made slight modifications to the financial rules shared on the original 4圆 index card. Follow him on Twitter at What are the simple financial rules from “The Index Card” book? He teaches at the University of Chicago with a focus on health and urban policy.
Follow her on Twitter at Pollack is a professor and author. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, and Forbes. Helaine Olen is a freelance journalist and author. We remain unable to make our own decisions to make our lives better. The book addresses how concerned we are about our finances because money is complicated, boring, scary and overwhelming. In 2016, the best-selling book called “ The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated” was launched to big fanfare.
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This advice was developed through Pollack’s trial and error, conversations with friends and reading financial books.Įventually, Pollack and Olen were approached to write a book about the index card. The index card speaks to the fact that money management is so simple that it can fit on an index card. Pollack originally came up with rules on the index card as a practical solution to the urgent financial problems he faced daily. Here’s the original news story from The Washington Post in 2013. The index card went viral! News outlets and content creators picked it up and shared the story online.
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