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There's a thing in psychology called cognitive dissonance, which means that you are stressed

and there's a frustration level building up because things are inconsistent

in your emotions and in your brain. Frustration, anger, all these types of high energy

emotions start to appear. Fear. Fear. And when you have that around money and you see a quick way out, like selling your house

to pay off all your debt, it tells you I can make all of this psychological pain, cognitive dissonance,

go away if I just sold the house.

So we're always looking for human nature is to look for the quickest way away from the pain.

It is not always the best methodology for your long-term health.

The quickest way away from the pain after surgery is not doing physical therapy,

because physical therapy is painful.

But if you don't do physical therapy after a knee or an elbow or a shoulder,

it won't work.

It'll freeze up.

You have a problem.

So you have to lean into the pain to get the best long-term result.

And that's usually true with money.

So what's painful in the, you pick the short-term pain and the long-term gain in any money equation. It's almost always the right one versus the short-term pain and the long-term gain in any money equation, it's almost always the right

one, versus the short-term gain and the long-term pain.

There's always a trade-off.

So if you sell your most expensive asset, your home, it's very mathematically expensive to move. It's emotionally expensive to move.

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