{"id":105,"date":"2024-07-26T05:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/why-complex-questions-can-have-simple-answers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T05:57:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:57:01","slug":"why-complex-questions-can-have-simple-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/why-complex-questions-can-have-simple-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why complex questions can have simple answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We\u2019re good at spotting the obvious conflicts of interest: of course mortgage providers always think it\u2019s a great time to buy a&nbsp;house; of course the sharp-suited guys from SpeedyMoola.co.uk think their payday loans are good value. But it\u2019s more difficult to see that everyone offering advice has a deeper vested interest: they need you to believe things are complex enough to make their assistance worthwhile. It\u2019s hard to make a living as a financial adviser by handing clients an index card and telling them never to return; and those stock-tipping columns in newspapers would be dull if all they ever said was \u201cignore stock tips\u201d. Yes, the world of finance is complex, but it doesn\u2019t follow that you need a complex strategy to navigate it.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/mar\/04\/complex-questions-simple-answers-oliver-burkeman\">www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/mar\/04\/complex-questions-simple-answers-oliver-burkeman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re good at spotting the obvious conflicts of interest: of course mortgage providers always think it\u2019s a great time to buy a&nbsp;house; of course the sharp-suited guys from SpeedyMoola.co.uk think their payday loans are good value. But it\u2019s more difficult to see that everyone offering advice has a deeper vested interest: they need you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}