Jul 29, 2026 · 57 min · 13 segments
If you follow any of the content at YNAB -- whether it's Budget Nerds, the Jesse Mecham Show, or social media -- you've probably heard the term "getting good at money" in many different contexts over…
Well,
it's a skill to start with.
And we started saying that from the very beginning.
And it makes sense.
But also, I think I should back up here, too, is, you know, Growing up, and actually, I shouldn't say growing up, you know, starting like maybe college years when you started thinking about adult kind of stuff, I never thought of money as a skill.
I guess I just thought it was something that just kind of happens around you, to you.
I don't know.
It's just, it's there and it is what it is.
Yeah, I think a lot of people think of it as like a character thing.
But it's not something you need to take a class on or sit down and learn or practice.
Yeah.
And again, this is just like young, immature Ernie, like thinking through what this could possibly mean, you know? Yeah.
Yeah.
But I really do think it is a skill.
Like it is something that every single person can learn.
And I think it's something that we all need to learn because there aren't other people generally who are teaching us this.
You know, we don't learn it in high school.
I think most of us would say we grew up, you know, amongst adults that maybe didn't teach us this or show us this.
So it's something that we have to kind of seek out on our own.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well,
it's a skill to start with.
And we started saying that from the very beginning.
And it makes sense.
But also, I think I should back up here, too, is, you know, Growing up, and actually, I shouldn't say growing up, you know, starting like maybe college years when you started thinking about adult kind of stuff, I never thought of money as a skill.
I guess I just thought it was something that just kind of happens around you, to you.
I don't know.
It's just, it's there and it is what it is.
Yeah, I think a lot of people think of it as like a character thing.
But it's not something you need to take a class on or sit down and learn or practice.
Yeah.
And again, this is just like young, immature Ernie, like thinking through what this could possibly mean, you know? Yeah.
Yeah.
But I really do think it is a skill.
Like it is something that every single person can learn.
And I think it's something that we all need to learn because there aren't other people generally who are teaching us this.
You know, we don't learn it in high school.
I think most of us would say we grew up, you know, amongst adults that maybe didn't teach us this or show us this.
So it's something that we have to kind of seek out on our own.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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