Upgrade Your Life By Adding Friction
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It's a popular refrain: evaluate your life to reduce time pressure and the resulting stress. But what if this approach wasn't as useful as you'd initially thought? We went from driving to a store to purchase closing to "one-click" ordering on Amazon to save time, but what did we lose in the process? Are we making poorer decisions because we're moving at the speed of light, all propelled by brands working hard to get you to buy more. When you save time, do you actually feel less stressed (hell, do any of us feel less stressed than we did ten years ago?) What if adding friction was the answer, rather than decreasing it. Soon Yu joins us today to talk about why friction may not be all bad, and why it can actually help keep more Benjamins in your wallet. He shares stories about a 20-minute coffee process, baking cakes, and how we can manipulate our dopamine levels to reduce unnecessary spending.
But wait, there's more! In our headline segment, we talk about Social Security benefits and the misinformation to watch out for. You expect to get correct information when you call the Social Security Administration but some agents are handing out incorrect information by mistake. We'll tell you what to look out for and how to check your Social Security benefits before you retire. We also answer Jake's question about receiving a gift from his mom and Doug shares his TV trivia.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, OG, and that means my favorite part of the entire week happens right now because on a cruiser somewhere near a wall somewhere, in the middle of a desert somewhere, at a base in the south where it's 99 degrees somewhere, maybe 110 degrees somewhere. There's somebody in the |
| 0:23.7 | United States military who's watching after us. And because of that... There's plenty of them in the |
| 0:29.0 | cold climate, too. I mean, they don't all have to be sweating their butts off. Some of them are |
| 0:33.5 | freezing their butts off, actually. That would be great, because I just got back in from a hike. |
| 0:38.2 | It was like 92 degrees by the time we got done hiking. Well, we call those self-inflicted injuries, Joe. |
| 0:44.3 | Yes. That's right. Are your panties a little damp right now, Joe? Well, you know what? They are, |
| 0:50.1 | but then I think that there are people in the U.S. military who go involuntary hiking. |
| 0:56.2 | They go on some phenomenal hikes. |
| 0:59.4 | They do some bikes from time to time. |
| 1:00.7 | Yes, without whining about it. |
| 1:02.6 | So on behalf of the men and women at Navy Federal Credit Union and the men and women making this year podcast, a shout out to our troops. |
| 1:10.5 | Let's all go stack some Benjamin's together, shall we? |
| 1:13.3 | Nervous? |
| 1:14.5 | Yes. |
| 1:15.2 | First time. |
| 1:16.7 | No, I've been nervous lots of times. |
| 1:22.9 | Live from Joe's mom's basement at the Stacking Benjamin Show. |
| 1:37.7 | I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and congratulations on tuning in. |
| 1:41.6 | We're so happy you're here at the end of today's show, we're handing you an honorary participation trophy. |
| 1:49.1 | It's a special day here because today is the anniversary of the first color TV demonstration, |
| 1:55.0 | an achievement that saved society from books. |
| 1:58.7 | To talk more about achievement and how you can better savor yours, we welcome |
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