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Top TED Talks on Personal Finance
TED Talks are short, educational, and motivational lectures that cover a wide range of topics. They give a different perspective on a particular subject. One of the most popular topics is Personal Finance. Personal finance involves more than investing, saving, and budgeting for retirement. It also involves planning for your future and developing a strategy that will allow you to achieve success in your career. There is no better way to improve your earning potential than with a Ted Talk.
Let’s Get Honest About Our Money Problems is a great TED Talk. It’s common for Get unlimited access
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people to struggle with managing their finances, but they often hide their issues from others. In this talk, author and financial expert Tammy Lally encourages us to break free from money shame and start living a more balanced life.
In her TED Talk, One Life-Changing Class You Never Took, Alexa Von Tobel talks about how important financial education is. She shows us a typical American financial situation and how knowledge could have helped prevent it. She also argues that having a good understanding of credit cards, student loans, and retirement savings could have prevented many of these financial issues. Having a good understanding of money early in our lives can help us build a stronger financial foundation. It can prevent us from going through the trials and errors of financial transactions. In A Solution to Student Debts in America, Sajay Samuel talks about how many students are in debt, how expensive college is, and how many can’t make their loan payments. He argues that we should treat higher education as a consumer product. Before a student enrolls in a college program, the school should inform them and their parents about their expected income. For Millennials, Money, and Changing the World, Kelly Peeler talks to students at Johns Hopkins. She asks them basic financial questions, and they all agree that having a good understanding of money is not an intelligence issue. Kelly argues that there is a lack of primary financial education in our society, which is why people need to learn how to manage their money before they make mistakes. Millennials are trying to change the world, but they must understand how to handle their money first. According to Michael Norton, spending money on others is suitable for your happiness and should be part of your personal finance. How to Buy Happiness claims that studies have shown that spending money on others can boost one’s happiness. He suggests that people allocate at least a portion of their income to “giving.” This article was originally published on WordPress.