{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Don't pay off your student loans early","description":""In 2010, a landmark study from Princeton was published \u201cproving\u201d that money just doesn\u2019t buy happiness. Study participants were asked to compare their emotional well-being from yesterday to today, and it appeared that making more than $75,000 a year didn\u2019t lead to concurrent increases in well-being. Since then, Americans have been flooded with the psychological opium of mindfulness, yoga, and leaning out, urging contentment instead with the status quo. In this column, I\u2019d like to humbly suggest some rather radical concepts: Perhaps paying off your student loans early isn\u2019t in your best interests, and neither is dumping all your disposable income into multiple 4xx(x) tax-deferred vehicles. This article is all about using the physician\u2019s higher-than-average income to buy something that truly leads to happiness: early financial independence." Khaled A. Dajani is a pediatric anesthesiologist. He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "Don\u2019t pay off your student loans early." ","author_name":"The Podcast by KevinMD","author_url":"https:\/\/www.kevinmdpodcast.com\/","html":"