# Introduction Three core ideas that we'll come back to in every part of the book: * **Money screws us up in self-deceptive ways**. This is especially unfortunate, because the point of self-deceptive problems is that you lead yourself astray. You end up wasting your life trying to 'solve' other problems, staying blind to what you actually need to do, or, worse, actively believing that the real problem applies only to other people. * **You are at constant threat from your craving for simplicity and certainty in an inherently complex and uncertain world**. You cannot see self-deception head on, but you can come to see its effects. The main ones, in terms of both frequency and intensity, are the ways in which you desperately grasp for simplicity and certainty. * **There is a better way**. You can overcome self-deception. You can train yourself to improve the money maps in your brain, which of course, is where your relationship with money is written. {% content-ref url="intro/0.0.1" %} [0.0.1](https://book.moneyblind.net/the-book/intro/0.0.1) {% endcontent-ref %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://book.moneyblind.net/the-book/intro.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.