#899 - Sahil Bloom - The Harsh Truth About Money & Happiness

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Feb 6, 2025

Sahil Bloom, an investor and author of "The 5 Types of Wealth," shares powerful insights on hard work and the interplay between money and happiness. He discusses how relentless focus can create opportunities often mistaken for luck. Bloom encourages prioritizing core values over societal pressures in personal growth. He highlights the pitfalls of productivity illusions in the social media age and emphasizes the importance of genuine effort over superficial outcomes. The conversation also touches on navigating life's challenges for lasting fulfillment.

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ADVICE

One Year of Focus

Focus relentlessly on your goals for a year.
You might be surprised by the results and how others perceive your success.

INSIGHT

The Illusion of Luck

People often misattribute success to luck, ignoring the hard work behind it.
Acknowledge the role of both blind luck and the luck created by your actions.

INSIGHT

Beyond Money

People overemphasize money as the sole measure of success in life.
Focus on less measurable but more fulfilling aspects like relationships, purpose, and health.

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Sahil Bloom is an investor, writer, and author. Focusing relentlessly on your goals can change your life. And if you work hard enough, one day your friends might call you ‘lucky’. But the truth is, luck is often just a byproduct of relentless effort. So, how do you create more opportunities for yourself and increase your chances of luck? Expect to learn why you’re one year of focus might change your life, the problem with constantly looking at the scoreboard of your life, the relationship between money and happiness, how to maximise time without falling into the productivity trap, what it means to expand your “Luck Surface Area”, how to build winner momentum, the most important practises to operationalise these principles and much more…

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