Optimal Finance Daily · Thursday, July 2, 2026
Liz Davidson emphasizes that while money is emotional and often conflated with self-worth, it fundamentally is just math. She suggests that approaching money as a solvable math problem, rather than an emotional burden, leads to greater control and clarity in financial decisions.
“Money is emotional. But it's just math.”
“When we peel away the emotional elements that we often couch our money in. It's just boring old numbers.”
“If we approach money as a math problem on a spreadsheet. And one that we could ask other people advice about. How much cleaner and simpler would our lives be?”