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Financology Podcast
My substack is essentially about decision-making; especially as it applies to finance and investment. I have Ph.D in psychology, and so a lot of what I write about involves understanding the psychology behind the money decisions that people make.
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Episodes
Financology PodcastThe Examined Wallet: How to Stress-Test Outdated Money Assumptions
This episode addresses “grandfathered rules”—outdated financial beliefs forged during past periods of scarcity that quietly govern our spending behavior long…
Financology PodcastThe Wanting Gap: How Relative Thinking Drives Psychological Poverty
This episode explores how human financial psychology is governed by relative comparison rather than absolute wealth, drawing on insights from behavioral…
Financology PodcastThe Drought Reflex: Understanding the Survival Instinct Hijacking Your Wallet
This episode uncovers “the drought reflex,” a subconscious psychological response that drives individuals to engage in reckless spending immediately following…
Financology PodcastThe Percentage Trap: How Proportional Thinking Secretly Drains Your Wealth
This episode explores the psychological mechanisms behind “the percentage trap,” a cognitive bias based on Weber’s Law where humans evaluate savings relatively…
Financology PodcastThe $1 Million Silence: How Avoiding Awkwardness Drains Your Wealth
This episode explores the concept of the “asking discount”—the invisible financial penalty humans voluntarily pay simply to avoid brief moments of social…
Financology PodcastWhy Stress Is Secretly Bankrupting Your Brain (and How to Stop It)
This episode explores how ancient evolutionary biological responses to threats degrade modern financial decision-making, taking a cognitive and monetary toll…
Financology PodcastWhy You’re Addicted to Being Right: The Psychology of Prediction Markets
This episode explores the rapid rise of prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, dissecting why humans are drawn to speculative forecasting beyond the…
Financology PodcastThe Difference Between Broke and Poor: How Words Change Your Reality
This episode explores the psychological distinction between being “broke” and being “poor,” inspired by Dr. Ryan Anderson’s newsletter. The discussion…
Financology PodcastThe Psychology of the Boring Middle: Escaping the Shortcut Trap
Financial security isn’t held back by a lack of information, but by evolutionary mental wiring that craves novel, clever solutions over boring, long-term…
Financology PodcastThe Standing Tab: How Modern Convenience Quietly Drains Your Bank Account
This episode explores how digital convenience and frictionless transactions systematically undermine our financial decision-making. Drawing on behavioral…
Financology PodcastThe Goldfish Effect: Why Earning More Money Never Feels Like Enough
This episode uncovers why earning more money so rarely leads to a sense of financial abundance, exploring how human psychology mimics a constantly expanding…
Financology PodcastPaying the "Normal Tax": The Invisible Financial Cost of Fitting In
This episode examines the “normal tax”—the invisible financial and lifestyle costs paid simply to conform to peer expectations and maintain social status…
Financology PodcastOvercoming the Financial Avoidance Loop and Taking Back Your Cognitive Bandwidth
This episode uncovers how ancient evolutionary responses—like the freeze mechanism seen in prey animals—sabotage modern financial decision-making. By exploring…
Financology PodcastResetting Your Portfolio: Overcoming Shame and Building Psychological Distance
This episode explores the psychological mechanisms underlying financial paralysis and provides actionable strategies for recovery. Drawing on biological…
Financology PodcastThe Quiet Ledger: How Self-Efficacy Rules Your Money
Failing at financial goals is rarely a lack of literacy or willpower—it stems from a loss of self-trust recorded in your brain’s internal predictive model…
Financology PodcastWhy Your Brain Hates Bitcoin (and How to Fixed Your Skepticism)
Dismissing cryptocurrency as a scam often stems from biological energy-saving mechanisms rather than pure financial logic. Drawing on Dr. Ryan Anderson’s…
Financology PodcastWhy Your Brain Sabotages Your Wealth (and How to Outsmart It)
Managing your finances is rarely a math problem; it’s a battle against millions of years of evolutionary psychology. Grounded in the financial insights of Dr…
Financology PodcastBoring Is the New Sexy: The Hidden Power of Unseen Growth
Social media tempts us with flashy displays of wealth, but real financial freedom comes from unexciting, long-term consistency. Drawing on Dr. Ryan Anderson’s…
Financology PodcastOvercoming Intensity Aversion: A Brain-Based Guide to Personal Finance
If logging into your bank account triggers an urge to do literally anything else, you aren’t lazy—your brain is experiencing intensity aversion. This episode…
Financology PodcastBuilding Antifragile Finances: How to Turn Market Stress into Long-Term Strength
In this episode, we examine the collapse of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 project, where trees grown in a windless utopia snapped under their own weight because they…
Financology PodcastHow Childhood Socialization Shapes Your Adult Financial Habits
Many adults believe being “bad with money” is a permanent personality trait, but behavioral psychology demonstrates that financial habits are largely inherited…
Financology PodcastOvercoming the Ostrich Effect to Eliminate Financial Avoidance
In this episode, we unpack Dr. Ryan Anderson’s newsletter on the “ostrich effect”—the deeply human tendency to actively avoid negative financial information…
Financology PodcastWhy Your Brain Loves Overspending (and How Corporations Capitalize on It)
Uncover the hidden psychological traps and deliberate corporate strategies that push us to buy things we do not need. Based on Dr. Ryan Anderson’s newsletter…
Financology PodcastHow to Turn Your Worst Financial Failures Into Long-Term Wisdom
Financial mistakes are often met with shame and avoidance, but they can serve as essential stepping stones toward building true wealth. Diving into Dr. Ryan…
Financology PodcastFrom Scorecard to Screwdriver: How Generosity Redefines Your Worth
In this episode, Ryan explores the surprising biological roots of human generosity. Drawing on the research of Dr. Ryan Anderson, Ryan challenges the common…
Financology PodcastThe Most Expensive Feeling: How FOMO Destroys Your Wealth
In this episode, Ryan explores why the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is “arguably the most expensive feeling you will ever have”. While often dismissed as a…
Financology PodcastBe the Pigeon: How to Build Wealth by Being Painfully Boring
In this episode, Ryan breaks down a fascinating concept from Dr. Ryan Anderson: Ego Investing. Using the biological “handicap principle” of a peacock’s…
Financology PodcastThe Mindset Tax: Is Your Brain Your Biggest Financial Expense?
In this episode, Ryan dives into a concept from Dr. Ryan Anderson called the “Mindset Tax”—the hidden, daily cost of thinking small and operating from a…
Financology PodcastBurning the Bridge: Reclaiming Intentionality in a Frictionless World
In this episode, Ryan explores a growing “rebellion” against the frictionless nature of modern life—from Gen Z’s adoption of vintage flip phones to the…
Financology PodcastWeaponizing Friction: Why Your Willpower is a Losing Strategy
Ryan presents a paradox: the laziest path to wealth is the most reliable. Using the Grand Canyon as an analogy for consistent, automatic flow, the episode…
Financology PodcastThe Bower Bird Trap: Why We Sacrifice Wealth for Status
This episode tackles the psychology of status spending, comparing human behavior to the male bower bird, which exhausts itself building elaborate displays for…
Financology PodcastSurvival over Prosperity: The Role of Luck and Risk in Your Portfolio
Drawing on Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money, Ryan discusses why financial success is more about behavior and temperament than IQ or mathematical…
Financology PodcastThe Three Wallets: What Your Purchases Actually Cost
Ryan challenges the idea that cost is only measured in dollars, introducing a “Three-Wallet” framework to calculate the true price of convenience. Using the…
Financology PodcastReclaim Your RAM: How to Protect Your Mental Capacity
In this episode, Ryan explores why financial problems are often not a failure of character, but an engineering problem related to “cognitive bandwidth”…
Financology PodcastEmotional Archaeology: Uncovering the Roots of Your Money Habits
Ryan tackles the frustrating reality of why we continually fall back into bad financial habits despite knowing better. He distinguishes between simple…
Financology PodcastThe Shiny Suit Trap: How to Spot a Financial Charlatan
Ryan exposes the psychological tricks and selective storytelling used by “shiny suit” financial gurus to separate you from your money. Drawing on the famous…
Financology PodcastThe Five Gardens: Why Financial Wealth is Only 20% of a Rich Life
Ryan challenges the traditional metric of measuring success solely by a bank account, warning that focusing only on money can leave you profoundly malnourished…
Financology PodcastTwo Words That Change Everything: "I'm Responsible"
Ryan strips financial success down to its core, arguing that taking total internal responsibility is the single most powerful factor in building wealth…
Financology PodcastFinding Your "Enough": How to Buy Joy Instead of Just Stuff
In this episode, Ryan explores the complex relationship between money and happiness, explaining that emotional well-being only rises with income up to a…
Financology PodcastRed Teaming Your Money: How to Outsmart Your Own Beliefs
Ryan challenges the societal glorification of unwavering conviction, arguing instead that intellectual flexibility and the willingness to admit when you are…
Financology PodcastThe $200 Monthly Blind Spot Stealing Your Wealth
Ryan exposes the corporate strategy of “breakage,” where companies like gyms and streaming services rely on our forgetfulness and guilt to generate pure profit…
Financology PodcastFrom Punishment to Power: Mastering Your Financial Patience
Ryan revisits the iconic Stanford marshmallow test to demonstrate how delayed gratification is one of the most powerful predictors of long-term health, career…
Financology PodcastInvisible Growth: Why Compounding Requires Massive Patience
Ryan introduces the concept of “bambooing,” drawing inspiration from the Chinese bamboo tree that builds an invisible root system for five years before…
Financology PodcastAre You Buying the Thing or the Feeling?
In this episode, Ryan explores the neurochemistry of impulse buying, explaining how our ancient survival wiring is entirely mismatched with modern consumerism…
Financology PodcastBeyond the Bank Account: Escaping the Monopoly Board of Modern Wealth
Ryan explores the dangerous “green-tinted pill” of modern society that tricks us into measuring our entire self-worth by our bank balance. He highlights how we…
Financology PodcastThe Invisible Harvest: How to Survive the 'Nothing Phase' of Success
Ryan tackles the universal struggle of impatience and explains why our brains are hardwired for “temporal discounting”—valuing immediate, smaller rewards over…
Financology PodcastThe Ego Tax: Why "I Don't Know" is Your Ultimate Financial Superpower
In a financial world obsessed with absolute certainty, Ryan makes the case that embracing what you don’t know might be your greatest asset. Craving absolute…
Financology PodcastThe Hustle Horizon: What the Gurus Don't Tell You About Passive Money
Ryan pulls back the curtain on the alluring but heavily misunderstood fantasy of effortless “passive income”. Our primal brains love the idea of maximum reward…
Financology PodcastEscaping the Peacock Problem: Stop Trading Your Freedom for Stuff
In this episode, Ryan challenges the way we view our purchases, asking whether our money is buying us actual freedom or just more obligations. Using the story…
Financology PodcastThe High Cost of Cheap Thinking
Have you ever bought a cheap toaster only to have it break and require a replacement a few months later? Ryan unpacks the cognitive trap of “transaction…
Financology PodcastLive with Marko Schmitt
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Financology PodcastThe Bucket Strategy: Stop Buying Things That Drain Your Wealth
Ryan tackles one of the most common money myths: the misunderstanding of what actually constitutes an asset. While society and marketing might convince you…
Financology PodcastThe Psychology of Debt: Why the Math Doesn't Always Win
Struggling with the gut-wrenching feeling of debt? Ryan breaks down how to conquer the “debt hydra” by differentiating between good debt (like a manageable…
Financology PodcastStop Getting Less for More: A Masterclass in Unit Pricing
Ryan exposes the stealthy corporate strategy of shrinkflation—where companies quietly reduce product sizes while keeping the price tag exactly the same. This…
Financology PodcastTiny Dollar Employees: How to Build Wealth While You Sleep
In this episode, Ryan dives into the mind-bending world of compound interest, illustrating how your money can work harder than you do. Using the story of Mike…
Financology PodcastThe Park Ranger Mindset: Surviving Financial Bears Without Feeding the Panic
Drawing a parallel between bear safety and financial markets, Ryan teaches how to maintain emotional discipline during volatility. Our evolutionary wiring…
Financology PodcastTime Millionaires: Redefining Wealth as the Ultimate Luxury of Freedom
Host Ryan Anderson argues that genuine wealth is time freedom, not just a bank balance. Using the story of Marcus Chan, who left a seven-figure salary to…
Financology PodcastPsychological Architects: How Big Retail Hacks Your Brain and How to Fight Back
Ryan pulls back the curtain on the “psychological architects” at stores like Walmart and Target who engineer experiences to bypass your financial willpower…
Financology PodcastThe Best ROI: Why Investing in Mental Health is Your Ultimate Financial Strategy
This episode examines why we meticulously maintain depreciating assets like cars but neglect our “internal engines”. Through the story of Marcus (car-obsessed)…
Financology PodcastBeyond the Extremes: Finding Your Middle Way Between FIRE and Soft Life
Ryan explores the ideological clash between Soft Life (prioritizing comfort now) and FIRE (financial independence, retire early). Both are modern responses to…