Ramit Sethi
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Let's discuss that.
We might as well.
It's actually more relevant than this.
But when it comes to what are you supposed to do, yeah, you do need to work on improving your relationship.
Just today, I have an episode on my podcast of a couple.
He won't buy a new office chair.
He's had his chair for like 15 years.
It's aching his back.
She has holes in her pants and they are so struck by ultra frugality, by scarcity.
I work with them.
I talk to them.
There's lots of reasons they feel that way.
Eventually I show them if they stop investing today, never add another cent, at retirement they'll have $9 million.
This is quite common.
Common in the sense that almost nobody knows what they're gonna have even at age 65, which is a very simple math calculation.
And it was shocking.
That insight alone that all of us spend our entire lives worrying about money but never run a couple of basic calculations.
That's just the first step.
You got to know your numbers.