I was told that due to various circumstances I may have to manage a ton of money where I wasn’t actually expecting it until way later in the future. For the most part I don’t really have any plans to do anything crazy as in many ways it’s just going to be like money in the savings. I was thinking how even though it is quite a bit of funds I treated it as no different as say having one dollar. It made me think how I guess just reading and writing things about finance all the time kind of made me desensitized to the dollar amount where others would go crazy over it.
Maybe in that sense it’s a good thing to develop so that you can constantly make rational choices with your money as opposed to emotional ones. That would actually be an interesting case study if there was ever a way to do it. For example, have people somehow just do something as simple as writing their daily spending or playing games of sort all the time where you manage a ton of money.
I was thinking for myself as even playing things like monopoly a lot as a child kind of made me think how about having a ton of money where how you manage it can dictate what happens. Basically a lot of money may give you more options to do things per se such as buying more property. However, many times like these having a ton of money and then spending because you can as it makes you feel “superior” can result in you just as easily losing it all.
By losing it all there you kind of get used to the fact of having a lot of money where you then focus more on making good decisions. Even when playing a game like that I am desensitized to having a ton of money where it definitely helps. Maybe that is one of the simple keys to managing your finance well where you need to be desensitized to it where it either scares or excites you a lot. In the end it’s what you do with it that should matter.