
The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

Your wealthy life may be enabled by money, but in the end, it will be defined by everything else.
Sahil Bloom • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
There’s always going to be a bigger boat.
Sahil Bloom • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
everyone up and down the net-worth spectrum said that two to five times more money was all they needed to reach the land of perfect happiness.
Sahil Bloom • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
“When it comes to money and happiness, there is a glitch in our psychological code.”[1] He argues that this glitch is driven by our flawed extrapolation of the early-in-life happiness gains from increases in income—that we experience some of the positive impact of money on our well-being as children and young adults and then spend the rest of our l
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In other words, the default scoreboard—focused on money—may be a useful asset in the earliest days of your journey, but it is a liability when you’re attached to it in the later days.
Sahil Bloom • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
Three core insights summarize the body of research on the topic of money and happiness: Money improves overall happiness at lower levels of income by reducing fundamental burdens and stress. At these lower levels, money can buy happiness. If you have an income above these levels and are unhappy, more money is unlikely to change that. If you have an
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There’s Always Going to Be a Bigger Boat
Sahil Bloom • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
Money isn’t nothing—it simply can’t be the only thing
Sahil Bloom • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
In all the advice, insight, and wisdom shared, there was a notable omission. No one mentioned money.