A guest post by Gene Roberts for Budgets Are Sexy
The title of this post is more than just a rip-off of the book, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” There are useful parallels between perspectives in that book, and my thoughts on couples budgeting.
In the book, Robert Pirsig discusses two different personality types: romantic and classical. The romantic tends to live in the moment, whereas the classical digs into the nuts and bolts of things to learn how to master them. What the narrator comes to realize as the story progresses is that neither viewpoint is better than the other. Which approach is needed depends on the specific situation. He suggests that viewing the world both by living in the moment and using classical rationality can lead to a higher quality... More...
