Throwing money at things makes us feel powerful and grown-
up when instead we might need to stand back and see if we
couldn’t do better by changing the situation another way. I
know I’m as guilty of this one as anybody. It happens to me
most with cars. I buy a car—usually an expensive, tempera-
mental, costly to fix model. Then when something goes
wrong, as it invariably does, I pay the garage to tow it away
and spend a fortune having it repaired. How much simpler my
life would be if I could stand back and see that the car was
unsuitable in the first place, basically a mistake. Throwing
money at it now doesn’t alleviate the problem; it merely delays
it, puts it off until the next time when it goes wrong again.
And it will. Oh, believe me, it will; it always does.
THROWING MONEY AT
IT NOW DOESN’T
ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM;
IT MERELY DELAYS IT.