Rima Kreis
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127 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Jan
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And one person I talked to, just to give you a little taste, for a long time, she was chasing higher incomes.
And then once she hit $100,000, this number that she thought would unlock all of this security, she realized she in fact felt burnt out and depressed.
And ultimately, she decided to quit her job.
And today she makes considerably less.
but she has a lot more time and she feels like it's a worthwhile trade-off because she values things like time and autonomy over money at this stage in her life, even if it means she's not saving for retirement.
And so this episode, it's really a meditation on enough and what it looks like for different people based on their values.
You know, it's, again, it's such a squishy question.
And so I wanted to talk with someone who has thought about this from a more psychological perspective.
And so I talked with this social scientist.
And she was like, you know, oftentimes we think of this question as a, you know, like as a budgeting question, but it's really a feelings question.
What are you afraid of?
What do you think having more money would protect you from?
And so she pointed out how subjective it is.
It is, right?
Like our sense of enough can swing wildly depending on who we're around or what we assume about their lives, especially because what we mostly see is what she calls the asset side of other people's balance sheets, not their debts or how much family help they're getting.
And so...
And she also made the point that how we think of enough has so much to do with how we think of ourselves and our own self-worth.
But one of the takeaways that I'm still thinking about is how, you know, she made this point that our feelings shape so much of our behavior, like how we feel about our money predicts what we do with it more than the number itself.
So when people feel financially constrained, even if they are objectively okay, she said that they don't just spend less, they actually save less too.
Like they're more likely to put off investing or planning for the future because everything just feels too fragile to touch.
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