How to understand client money psychology
When clients ignore your best advice, the problem isn't your planning. It's the emotional forces you haven't addressed yet. Highlights ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Tag: Psychology
The psychology of the spotlight effect and how it has helped me care less about small social mistakes nobody else even noticed
In a 2000 study by Gilovich, Medvec, and Savitsky, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, participants were ...
The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to ...
Psychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them — the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn’t form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter’s way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included
Research on adult children caring for aging parents consistently finds that caregiving satisfaction is not predicted by the volume of ...
Psychology suggests that the loneliest moment in midlife isn’t a holiday or an anniversary — it’s a regular Wednesday afternoon when you realize you don’t actually know who in your life would notice if you went quiet for a week, and the realization arrives so calmly that it takes another few weeks to admit it counts as something worth grieving
The loneliest moment in midlife, for many people, does not arrive on a holiday. It does not arrive on an ...
Psychology says the loneliest people aren’t the ones living alone, they’re the ones surrounded by family who only ever ask about their health, their schedule, and their weekend plans, but never once about who they actually became
My aunt asked me about my running last Christmas. Three times. Once before lunch, once during, once on the way ...
Psychology suggests people who consume self-improvement content obsessively without ever changing their lives aren’t lazy or lacking discipline, they’re getting the feeling of forward motion without the terror of actually becoming someone different, and the content is the coping mechanism, not the cure
You know that friend who’s read every self-help book published since 2010? The one with the color-coded notes, the productivity ...
Psychology says people who feel a strange peace mowing the lawn or washing the car aren’t escaping anything — they’ve found one of the few tasks left in modern adult life with a visible beginning, middle, and end, and the satisfaction isn’t about the chore, it’s about completing something fully in a life that mostly doesn’t allow that anymore
Here’s a question worth asking: when was the last time you actually finished something? Not crossed it off a list. ...
Psychology says the people who genuinely seem happy aren’t more optimistic or more grateful than everyone else, they’re the ones who stopped chasing the feeling a long time ago and quietly built a life small enough, honest enough, and slow enough that happiness had nowhere left to hide from them
I was standing in line at the supermarket last week, half-listening to two women in front of me. One of ...
Psychology says people who keep adjusting their personality to suit the room aren’t socially skilled — they’re exhausted, and they’ve been exhausted since childhood
Ever notice how some people seem to effortlessly navigate every social situation? They’re the ones who somehow fit perfectly at ...
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