472: How to Escape the Money Trap and Stop Chasing More | Sahil Bloom
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Sahil Bloom is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer who simplifies complex ideas around wealth, personal growth, and decision-making to help people live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. He is the author of The 5 Types of Wealth.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Poppin family? It's episode 472 of The Genius Life. |
| 0:24.0 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome back to another episode of the show. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm your host, Max Lugavir, writer, health science communicator, and guy who still can't believe how much T-shirts cost these days. |
| 0:32.9 | Today, we're diving into something a little different, money, happiness, and why so many people get this equation |
| 0:39.2 | totally wrong. My guest is Sahil Bloom, an investor, writer, and thinker whose new book, |
| 0:44.6 | The Five Types of Wealth breaks down the different ways we measure success and why financial |
| 0:49.5 | wealth is only one small piece of the puzzle. We talk about the psychological traps |
| 0:54.6 | that keep us endlessly chasing more, |
| 0:56.8 | the illusion that money alone leads to happiness |
| 0:59.4 | and the dangers of comparison culture |
| 1:01.6 | in a social media-driven world. |
| 1:04.1 | Sahil also shares his bot status test, |
| 1:06.9 | a simple but powerful way to check |
| 1:08.6 | whether you're making purchases for yourself |
| 1:10.5 | or for social validation. |
| 1:12.8 | Plus, we dig into why the best relationships combine high expectations with high support |
| 1:17.0 | and how to refocus on what actually leads to a meaningful, fulfilling life. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, I would love to hear from you. |
| 1:23.7 | Do you like episodes that aren't explicitly health-focused like this one? |
| 1:27.0 | Drop a comment on Spotify and let me know. And before we jump in, if you're not already |
| 1:30.5 | subscribed to my free weekly newsletter, what are you doing? Every week, I break down the latest |
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