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None Of Us Always Make The Best Financial Decisions.

If You Have Loans, The First Thing You Want To Do Is Say, "okay, Look I Have A Credit Card, If I Really Need To Borrow, I Have This Emergency Money That I Can Get, But For Now There Is No Reason For Me To Keep Cash At Zero Percent Interest Rate And At The Same Time, Pay All Of This Money Out. So, I Think People Need To Figure Out Quickly How To Pay Loans And How Much Cash They Should Really Keep.

It Is Helpful To Think Of People As Having Two Fundamental Motivations: The Desire To See Ourselves As Honest, Good People, And The Desire To Gain The Benefits That Come From Cheating - On Our Taxes Or On The Football Field.

Imagine You Have Six Loans, Small To Huge. People Want To Close Loans And Because Of That, They Try To Pay Off The Small Loans, But That's Not The Right Strategy. The Right Strategy, Of Course, Is To Pay The Loan With The Highest Interest Rate. People Make This Mistake And It Costs Them Lots And Lots Of Money, It's A Very Expensive Mistake Because Interest Rates Accumulate And Become Very, Very Expensive Very Quickly.

People Are Irrational - And Predictably So.