Bill Perkins

The fulfillment was the goal.

And so once I realized- Money was the tool.

Yes.

Money is, it's like hammers and saws, right?

Like you can keep buying hammers and saws, you can go to the hardware store, but the hardware store, the tools that you get out of there, that's not the goal.

The goal is the house and the things you build, right?

And so money is the tool to build your life.

right to give you the experiences you want with your friends or hedonistic or charitable it doesn't matter the type of experience it's just money is just one of those tools in your toolkit and so once i started to think about that that i wanted to have an adventurous life a life with scars a life with mistakes a life with risks um you know money had its place

right in in building the life that i wanted and so i think that's when i started to unlock kind of my fearlessness

risk-taking I'll go anywhere to try and acquire this tool to build the life I want but really it's about building the life I want and you know trying to figure out what kind of life I want you know like you know a lot of times I think I'm building the life I want but it was really what was advertised to me you know you're young you're impressionable it's like I want my life to look like a rap video or I want my life to look like this right and then I do it I'm just like oh I don't this is not really me this is not really fulfilling to me and so I

I've had many journeys about what will fulfill me and what the money's for, but ultimately it's just one variable out of what I would call the three variables, your wealth, your health, and your time.

How do I allocate those resources over my life to get the most fulfilling life?

And so I think a lot of people look at money as the goal and it's not even close to the goal.

Yeah, I wouldn't say there's like a formula, like do this, multiply by that, X, Y, and Z, but there are mental models, right?

Like how to think about it.

The first unlock is like what tools, you know, I'm in this organic spacesuit, right?

And I have a finite time here on earth.

what tools are at my disposal, right?

Well, I got my health, right?

But this spacesuit is going to decay and die, right?