Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show, and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about spending purposefully, saving aspirationally and giving joyfully.

It all comes down to just giving every single one of those precious little dollars a job.

Today I want to talk just briefly about an excellent book.

Well, one chapter of an excellent book.

The excellent book is The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.

And, well, I'll just say it again.

It is excellent.

There is a chapter in there about reasonable and rational.

And I wanted to kind of view that chapter through the lens of spendfulness.

One time, a while ago, this is not necessarily money related, but we'll tie it in.

I was chatting with a friend, and we were talking about how we make decisions.

And this friend likes to see himself as, sees himself as very rational, very numbers focus.

We're going to look for efficiency.

We're kind of going to approach it like an engineer.

We're just going to,

that's just how we view the world. Numbers, efficiency, math, everything adds up. The equation balances. We're good to go. And I had asked him how he approached the massive decision of deciding

who to marry, his lovely wife. we were both thinking of at that same time

and it was interesting to see the conversation shift where now there i know there will be some

engineers out there's some engineers out there that are like well now hold on a second jesse you

didn't see my spreadsheet that helped me determine

that this was the girl of my dreams.

Fair.

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