Bill Perkins
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1,205 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Bill Perkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Only this period once, right? I only get to be 50, between 50 and 55. I only get this level of health at this time. Are these the experiences? Is this really how I want to allocate my time at this period? Is this really the maximum? Is this the optimal thing for me to do?
And if they do that and they come up with the same answer, like, hey, no, I want to work at the Wager Factory or I want to work at this fulfilling. I can't argue that. Who am I to tell you how to live your life?
What I'm here to tell you is how to optimize your life, what thought process and what steps you should go through, things you should be considering in order to get the most fulfillment out of your life. And then if you come to the conclusion that, hey, I'm at the perfect balance of work, right?
And the money's piling up, but I'm going to use it later and I'm going to go on a senior's cruise and that's what it's for, then that's your life. But maybe you might go, you know what? I can dial it back and my daughters are only going to be or my kids are only going to be this age at this time.
Maybe I should take a family trip and unplug and go on safari with them and enjoy my success because that's going to give me a lifetime of memory dividends and discussion points and connections, et cetera. Maybe I'd rather have that time with them now and not have them – And a hospital with me when I'm old and stinking can barely, you know, and seeing me this way.
I want the memories and the time they spend with me doing this and not at the tail end of life. Who knows? I just want people thinking about it. And if you just get off autopilot just a bit and you start thinking about it, you're already optimizing your life. You're already going to have a more fulfilling life.
till 11, I would- See, I needed a little bit of you and you needed a little bit of me.
This reminds me of, you know, the college paper had this, my senior year, I opened it up and it had the 50 things you need to do before you graduate. And I just had the biggest regret when I read that list.
I was just about on my way out. I was like, never going to be able to do this. I'm not going to do this. And some of them were simple, like write an angry letter to newspaper, you know, go skinny dipping at Lake, whatever.
actually did that after i read that there were a lot of things do this college prank do whatever like things that would be fun didn't necessarily cost you money or whatever but like things to do to have a college experience not necessarily do them all and i was like maybe i did three or four and i was like why was i so on autopilot in my way and think about okay you got four years here good good grades good study but like you want to get this out of it you want to do this out of it you want to have this college experience etc we just kind of like
don't really think about things going autopilot so much that we don't think about periods in our life even this year what experiences do i want to have this year with this person, with myself, with my spirituality, with my health, with my travel, my leisure, my job? How am I going to optimize? And how does that fit into the Tetris game of my entire life? Am I doing it right?
Maybe this experience that I'm saying goes here actually goes further out in my life. When I was trying to get the book published, one of the publishers said, I do exactly what you're talking about in the book. I really like hiking. She explained she had an injury. And she likes running, but now she does like hiking. And she really likes concert and music.
And she goes on a vacation with a friend every year. They pick what they're going to go do. And there's this very expensive opera that she wants to go see and et cetera. And she said, what I and our friend decided is that the hiking trips and this mountain, et cetera, we're going to pull these forward.
And the sitting in operas and these type of trips, the sitting in trips, we're going to push forward.
Push into the future. Yeah. So Max and I, it was like, if they get that order wrong, they go all the opera and then they turn around like, holy shit, I can't hike this mountain. And so this fits in every aspect of your life. College, first job, pre-married, married, before kids, kids that are toddlers, not toddlers, that type of thinking is really helpful. And you've been lucky.
Experience has taught you about the seasons with your kids. And I learned the hard way too. I was like, you know, people tell you like, oh, your kids don't want to be with you when you're 13. And you're like, you kind of forget when you were 13. You forget like, oh yeah, I didn't want to be around my parents. And then it really hits you when they're just like,
Nobody hangs out with their dad that much. Come on.
It's one of those secret millionaire stories. They're all out there. There's a secretary, and then when she died, she had $10 million of Tootsie Roll stock or whatever. And so this woman worked at a law firm, saved her money, lived, by all accounts, a very frugal life. And then when she died, she gave a multimillion dollar gift to education, charitable education.
Everybody was like, that's so charitable and that's such a great thing. And I had a different perspective. My perspective was when you're dead, the money isn't yours. And also that the target for her bequeath after her death
would have been much better off receiving the money much earlier, a lower sum much earlier, and that the return on her charitable investment would be greater than any of her investment returns. And so I can't really get into her head to determine if it's charitable. I'm knowingly thinking I'm doing the right thing.
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