Given the sudden interest surge in the field of personal finance, there are many avenues from which you could get your customized information from. In a data overloaded world, especially in this space, what is important to understand is the reliability and the trustworthiness of the source from which you consume this specific information. The Psychology of Money does not fill this gap but will give you essential wisdom for a broader, long-term approach on how to navigate this topic called Money. In my opinion, there couldn’t be a better time to publish this book.
Money is a very sensitive topic, especially in India where there is a certain element of secrecy around it that not a lot of them are open to discuss it with their friends and family. We tend to make a lot of judgemental errors because of this lack of conversation and end up losing years of right decision-making. Decentralizing this information has been happening rapidly lately and this book is one such attempt. This book will help you ask more fundamental questions to yourself on how you want to develop your relationship with money: Do you see it as a tool to attain something? Do you directly correlate that number to your happiness? Where do you draw the line? If these types of questions are something that interests you, please read on. Here are my major takeaways from it: