Ramit Sethi says people with $100K in debt can feel excited about money if they stop following an invisible script that tells them to avoid thinking about it. Dread comes from disengagement. You need to learn to enjoy managing money, not just endure it.
Can you be excited about money if you are $100,000 in debt? I have not been able to. It's just too stressful to have to think about it. You can't. If your entire worldview is like, oh no, you can't be excited, then of course you're going to feel like shit about money. I think you have this invisible script that your ultimate goal is to not have to think about money. The fact is, if you want to get good at money, you have to pay attention to it a lot, and you actually have to find a way to enjoy it. The way you've constructed your world is that I need to feel horrible about money. And guess what? When people feel horrible about something, they don't engage in it. They simply ignore it. So you're doing a very rational thing. The problem is you have the wrong view of the world.
