Not All Debt Is Bad. From Time

We Can Think About How We Reduce The Pain In Paying. So, For Example, Credit Cards Are Wonderful Mechanisms To Reduce The Pain Of Paying. If You Go To A Restaurant And You Are Paying Cash, You Would Feel Much Worse Than If You Were Paying With Credit Card. Why? You Know The Price, There's No Surprise, But If You're Paying Cash, You Feel A Bit More Guilt.

I Don't Want To Say That The Poor Are Inherently Cognitively Diminished, But At The End Of The Day Of Making Difficult, Tough Decisions, It's Very Hard To Have The Energy To Think About Things With The Right Mindset.

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.

The Retail Industry Has Its Own Headache: It Loses $16 Billion A Year To Customers Who Buy Clothes, Wear Them With The Tags Tucked In, And Return These Secondhand Clothes For A Full Refund.

When We Think About Labor, We Usually Think About Motivation And Payment As The Same Thing, But The Reality Is That We Should Probably Add All Kinds Of Things To It - Meaning, Creation, Challenges, Ownership, Identity, Pride, Etc.