As I said, this is the standard answer I get, albeit a little bit more sophisticated than the average.
Unless you're already rich and still having good saving habits, I see a very obvious reason why you should have broken those habits: you suddenly don't need to save anymore. All the motivational structure you have in place to save suddenly lose meaning.
Anyway, I don't trust myself that much in the long run.
this is the standard answer I get
I am not aware of any valid inference from "I hear this often" to "this is wrong" :-).
Unless you're already rich and still having good saving habits, I see a very obvious reason why you should have broken those habits: you suddenly don't need to save anymore.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "rich" and "need". I don't feel much like giving out the details of my personal finances here just to satisfy Some Guy On The Internet that I don't fit his stereotypes, so I'll just ...
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.