Ramit Sethi on money, pleasure, and finding moments of awe

Send us Fan MailThe bestselling  finance guru-turned-TV star, Ramit Sethi is on a mission to help all of us live what he calls our rich lives, but he's not just another finance bro. The son of Indian immigrants who were too poor to afford restaurants or overseas vacations, he has developed an extraordinary skill in helping people figure out how to spend money on the things that make our lives more enjoyable. One thing that separates Sethi from the crowd? He reads!  His choices for this episode of Shelf Life are Christopher Alexander’s  The Timeless Way of Building, a clarion call to think about buildings and urban environments in the context of community, and  Elliott Aronson’s The Social Animal, a touchstone of 20th century psychology that aims for nothing less than to understand "how we think, how we behave, what makes us aggressive, and what makes us loving."