I spent years making financial mistakes I didn't fully understand. Overspending without knowing why. Avoiding my bank balance because checking it felt worse than not knowing. Never saving consistently even when my income was decent enough that I should have been.
The frustrating part wasn't the mistakes themselves — it was that nobody had ever explained the mechanisms behind them. Why the brain spends automatically. Why willpower reliably fails. Why earning more doesn't automatically produce more savings. These aren't character flaws. They're predictable patterns that have explanations — and once you understand the explanation, the fix becomes clearer.