THE TEEN DECISION CODE: How Your Habits, Impulses, and Decisions Shape Your Future Self. - Couverture souple

HOSSAIN, KAUSAR

 
9798181375444: THE TEEN DECISION CODE: How Your Habits, Impulses, and Decisions Shape Your Future Self.

Synopsis

Your brain makes a decision in 45 seconds. Your life takes 40 years to catch up.

At Silk Road Academy in Singapore, six teenagers from six different backgrounds are about to learn the same uncomfortable truth: the gap between what you know you should do and what you actually do is where your future gets decided.

Maral, Arjun, Lin Wei, Aiko, Khalid, and Madina aren't reading a finance textbook. They're living through the same impulses, peer pressure, and 3 a.m. online shopping carts that every teenager faces, while two mentors, Uncle Sulayman and Ms. Jadyra, slowly hand them a different way of seeing it.

This book uses money as the training ground, but the real subject is decision-making itself: how your brain works against you, how small habits compound into massive outcomes, and how the choices you barely notice today are quietly building (or breaking) the person you'll become.

Inside, you'll learn:

  • Why your brain has a "fast" system and a "slow" system, and how to tell which one is driving
  • The Rule of 72, and how to calculate exactly how fast your money (or debt) doubles
  • Why a 1% daily improvement compounds to nearly 38x over a year, and what that means for habits, skills, and money
  • How peer pressure hijacks financial decisions, and how to spot it happening in real time
  • The five things that are actually yours (the "5 M's"), and why everything else is borrowed
  • Real frameworks used by investors and behavioral economists, explained through scenes you'll actually remember

Who this is for:

Teens aged 13-16 who want to understand how their own minds work. Parents looking for a way to start money conversations that don't feel like lectures. Teachers and schools looking for financial literacy material that students actually want to finish.

Every framework in this book is real, documented, and sourced (full citations included). The story is fiction. The decisions are yours.

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