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The Inforium

How to Fix Your Spending Problem (Ep. 235)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Cash rules everything around me, so I probably shouldn't spend it all. We talk about a few ways to slow down your spending. Full show notes This week’s episode is sponsored by: Brilliant: Accelerate your learning in math, science, and computer science. Start learning for free at Brilliant.org/CollegeInfoGeek — and if you're one of the first 83 people to use this link, you'll also get 20% off your subscription. Things mentioned in this episode: Mint (iOS | Android) Daily Budget (iOS) USDA Food Plans Strides (iOS) Momentum (iOS) Atomic Habits, by James Clear Weapons of Influence #2: Commitment and Consistency (Ep. 189) Bear (Mac | iOS) Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:02:54 - Tracking your expenses and spending less 0:22:00 - Curbing impulse spending 0:27:52 - Sponsor: Brilliant (Learning problem-solving skills) 0:35:38 - Don't invest too much on a new hobby 0:39:04 - Figure out what exactly is making you spend all your money 0:40:46 - Ignoring sales 0:42:38 - What subscriptions are you actually making use of 0:46:53 - Friends that make you spend too much money 0:51:48 - Recap and conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:33.3

Hey what is up everybody and welcome back to the college info geek

0:37.0

podcast internet's best resource for ambitious students and learners looking to

0:40.8

get ahead but a terrible resource for figuring out how to solve the following

0:45.7

riddle.

0:46.7

You're on an island with 12 islanders.

0:49.8

Eleven of them weigh the exact same, but one of them weighs either more or less.

0:56.2

You don't have a scale, but you do have a teeter totter.

0:59.8

But you're only allowed to use a teeter totter three times. How do you figure out who is your

1:05.8

outlier and whether or not he's heavier or lighter? I think I could figure this

1:12.3

out but I don't want to give I don't know and do it on the podcast I couldn't do it on the podcast I could this is a terrible resource for it so I'm not going to solve it here it is and you'd make me liar. This isn't going to give the answer to anybody.

1:24.3

Also even if you solved it you would not be able to communicate it very easily because

1:32.1

this riddle is very complicated and the solution you have to look at it.

1:38.0

Yeah, I feel like it's just it would just be like a bunch of me like going to wait wait wait wait wait no no so it's like this right and

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