The Enough Instinct

Why More Money Never Actually Feels Like Enough

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Jordan Ellis

Verlag:

Readers First Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36704370

EAN: 9781804281130

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 15.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 41.50

Beschreibung

The Enough Instinct: Why More Money Never Actually Feels Like Enough. There is a particular kind of silence that shows up after a financial goal gets hit. You cross the threshold you have been aiming at for years, and instead of the relief you promised yourself, you feel a flat, unsettling nothing. Most people quietly reset the number and keep moving, assuming the disappointment is a private failure. It is not. In The Enough Instinct, Jordan Ellis explores the under-discussed psychological pattern of bottomless financial pursuit. As part of The Money Instinct Library, this book reveals why the feeling of "enough" was never going to arrive by way of a number, because the number was never what the feeling was actually measuring. Drawing on decades of published research across psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Enough Instinct dissects the mechanisms that keep the goalpost moving, including:. The Hedonic Treadmill:. Why your baseline sense of satisfaction adapts to new financial heights so quickly that the new normal feels exactly like the old one. Arrival Fallacy:. Why achieving a massive milestone-like making partner or selling a company-often yields a disorienting blankness rather than lasting joy. Contingent Self-Worth:. How a tracking spreadsheet or portfolio balance quietly becomes the primary instrument you use to measure your value as a human being. The Wanting vs. Liking Gap:. Why the compulsive urge to check the market or close a trade outlives any actual pleasure derived from financial gains. The Impostor Phenomenon:. Why even a self-made fortune can feel entirely unearned, vulnerable, and borrowed. This book is not a case against wealth, ambition, or the genuine security that money provides. Instead, it offers concrete, actionable overrides to help you decouple your financial numbers from your psychological needs. It is time to stop running your ambition on a rigged meter. Discover how to set financial goals that actually fulfill their promises, and learn to rest in the success you have already built.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Jordan Ellis

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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