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Mind over Money by Brad Klontz and Ted Klontz — WisdomDeck honest review
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Mind over Money

by Brad Klontz and Ted Klontz

Two financial psychologists on money scripts, the unconscious beliefs from childhood that drive money disorders: avoidance, worship, status, vigilance. It includes assessment tools and exercises for rewriting the scripts, and it is the clinical foundation for the financial therapy field.

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Read it if…

your money behavior makes no sense to you and you suspect it comes from your past.

Skip it if…

you want tactics; this is psychology.

Three things you will actually use

  1. Money scripts are learned; they can be rewritten.
  2. Flashpoints in childhood shape adult money behavior.
  3. Awareness precedes change.

Do this first

Take the money scripts inventory and identify your dominant script.

Our verdict

Clinical and useful.

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