🔥 The Hot Corner

💬 Quoted… “What we found was a really strong connection between feeling badly about your money situation and how much time you spend on social media.”

  • What happens when the desire to be rich meets wannabe social media financial gurus flexing Richard Milles while inside Lambos? A phenomenon called “money dysmorphia,” according to a new report from Credit Karma, which found 43% of Gen Z and 41% of millennials are currently experiencing it. The term basically means to have a distorted view of money that drives poor financial decisions – aka keeping up with the Joneses. The interesting part? Many of those who experience money dysmorphia have above-average savings, per Credit Karma – but they’re also likely to admit to being obsessed with the idea of being rich. As they say: comparison is the thief of joy.

🤼 Stat of the Day: More high school girls are limousine ridin' and jet flyin' their way to the wrestling mat – enough to make girls’ wrestling the fastest-growing high school sport in America. Over the past decade, the number of high school girls’ wrestling teams has quadrupled nationally. And the number of girls wrestling in high school quintupled to 50,000+ through last year, according to data from the National Federation of State High School Associations.

🤔 Did You Know?... The “doorway effect” is a replicable psychological phenomenon characterized by short-term memory loss that occurs when passing through a…🚪… what were we saying?

📰 Worth a Read: Why Congress is becoming less productive → (Reuters)

Share this!

Recent Hot Corner stories

🔥Hot Corner

Hot Corner
  |  March 13, 2024

🔥 It’s Wednesday, March 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Kyle Nowak & Peter Nowak
Read More
Hot Corner
  |  March 12, 2024

🔥 It’s Tuesday, March 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Kyle Nowak & Peter Nowak
Read More

🔥Hot Corner

Hot Corner
  |  March 11, 2024

🔥 It’s Monday, March 11th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Kyle Nowak & Peter Nowak
Read More

You've made it this far...

Let's make our relationship official, no 💍 or elaborate proposal required. Learn and stay entertained, for free.👇

All of our news is 100% free and you can unsubscribe anytime; the quiz takes ~10 seconds to complete