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When financial education triggers inadequacy feelings

I know I should invest my savings but every time I research it I get overwhelmed and convinced that I'll just lose everything like an idiot.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Learning about money activates deep shame about not knowing enough, creating avoidance that perpetuates the very ignorance being feared.

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