Dr. Mindy Weinstein

Where you just thought, I mean, that's silly example, but yeah, like just pause, pause and ask yourself, is this something you truly wanted?

You know, and the other thing too, especially like when we think about holiday shopping and sales, it's really easy to get caught up in that, but you want to even do your homework ahead of time.

Find out about, know what you want to buy and find out what is the normal price that

what have been the sale prices periodically that have happened for this product to understand if it's truly a good deal when you see that holiday sale, because it may or may not be that great of a deal.

And so that's just kind of something to think about too.

Yes.

And that because when I was talking about the MRI reaction to remember, it was the value that your brain is placing on that item.

But if you already know how much that product should be, that helps with that.

Plus, as I talked about the decision making, you know, that gets skipped.

Well, you're actually doing it ahead of time, you know, you're doing your homework.

And so it can help with all of that.

Oh yeah.

I mean, FOMO, I mean, I know I alluded to that a little bit, but FOMO is a huge thing when it comes to scarcity.

It's huge.

And so, and that is, I mean, that's some of the examples I talk about is social media.

We don't want to miss out if we find out that like concert tickets are going on sale and all our friends are talking about it.

Well, when it goes on sale, we want to make sure we're buying it too, because we don't want to miss that.

But yeah,

You just again have to remind yourself that it's that and I know I did say this, but like, pause, know that any regret you're going to have if you don't take action will go away.

You're not going to be thinking about that long term.