Behavior & Psychology
Why most investors underperform their own investments. Panic selling, lifestyle creep, FOMO, and the behavioral mistakes that cost more than any bad stock pick. Plus credit scores, credit card payoff strategy, insurance basics, and estate planning fundamentals.
About this course
This course is a sequence. Work through the lessons in order; each one builds on the last. You can skip around, but the order is intentional, and the math compounds in the order written.
Lessons in order.
The most common mistakes beginners make
Most early losses do not come from stock picks. They come from a small set of behavioral mistakes everyone makes, repeated for years.
What an emergency fund actually does for your brain
Most personal finance content explains the emergency fund as a financial buffer. That is correct, and it is the smaller half of the story. The larger half is what the emergency fund does to your decision-making before any emergency happens.
Lifestyle creep: the silent wealth killer
Why people who get raises don't always get richer. The pattern most professionals fall into without noticing.
Lifestyle inflation: why a raise doesn't feel like a raise
Most workers, over most of a career, get raises. Most workers, over most of a career, do not feel meaningfully richer than they did at 25. Both of these things are true, and there is a name for the gap between them.
Credit scores explained: what actually moves the number
Your credit score quietly determines what loans you qualify for and at what rate. Here's what actually moves it, and the myths that don't.
Paying off credit card debt: the best return you can get
Paying off a 22% APR credit card is mathematically equivalent to earning a guaranteed 22% return. Nothing else in finance comes close.
Insurance basics: which policies you actually need
Insurance protects against catastrophic loss. Most people are over-insured in some areas and dangerously under-insured in others. Here's the framework.
Estate planning basics: what every adult should have
Estate planning isn't just for the wealthy or the elderly. Five basic documents protect you and the people you care about, and most can be done cheaply.
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