Your Window to Turn Money Into Memories Is Closing | Bill Perkins

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0:41What do you think is the biggest psychological crime someone can make when it comes to their money? I think the biggest psychological crime is people fear running out of money instead of fear of wasting their life. and so you know they have this fear of embarrassment of like i'm gonna run out of money and i'm gonna be broke or i'm gonna do x y and z instead of fear like i am wasting my life i have for the we were talking about the 20 to 30 bucket i'll just you know this is it this is the only period i'll be 20 to 30 there are certain activities experiences that are meant for this bucket right people are marketing services and products to you you know that they're there right Like, I don't want to do them.

1:24Like, go have fun. Right? But, and you only get one shot. One go around. You know? And so, and they're worried about, you know, in the 30, 40. So, I think people worry about embarrassment, what other people think, judgment about their lifestyle or them failing in the future, etc. As opposed to worrying about, like, I don't want to waste this ride. And it's not even the ride for the whole life. Every single period of your life. So if you're a parent with small children, not wasting that period with teenagers, I know a lot of us would like to waste that period and just be like, can we get rid of spirit?

2:01But that period, and then, you know, eventually you don't have kids in the house anymore. And that's a different period of your life. And there's different activities and different opportunities that go. And I often say life is like Tetris, right? Like, if you were in heaven, let's assume this heaven, and you're about to come down to earth as a human being, and God's like, here's the bucket of experiences. And when I say use experience, I mean choices, right? I mean it in the broadest sense. Hedonistic, charitable, whatever. Yeah. And you're like, oh, the infinite bucket of experiences. I want to go hiking.

2:33I want to do tennis a thousand times. I want to have sex a jillion times. I want to do all these things. You're throwing them into the experience. Like, I want to start a business. I want to go to school, blah, blah, blah. And it's full. and God goes, great, you can have all those. You just have to get the order right. So life is like Tetris. You know, you remember the game Tetris where you had to get the shapes right? Life is that way. Like if you don't have the experiences at the right time, they run to interfere with each other or your ability to doom disappears. So you can have all the money in the world, right?

3:06When I was in St. Petersburg, Russia, this was before the war, a beautiful city. And one of the things about Europe is things they allow you to do would be completely illegal in the United States. It's not like safety laws or whatever. So you can climb these steps, walk around the churches, and then walk around the balcony. Beautiful. It's amazing. It's like, wow, I can't believe we still get to do this. And it was like 115 steps. I remember it was an odd number. I think it might have been 111. And there were like six or eight tour buses of senior citizens coming to go see the museum and this church.

3:46Not a single one climbed those steps. Not a single one. So their trip to St. Petersburg was entirely different than my St. Petersburg trip. Their experience, the information they got to process, the things they got to see was totally different. I'm not saying it wasn't enjoyable. But perhaps in a city that allows you to roam around and do these things and go on cliffs and overlook type of things and you enjoy it, perhaps that trip should have been taken much earlier. Wow. And so, you know, that's an example of getting the order right. Yes. Getting the order right and making sure you're using your money at the time where you're able to use it the most effectively, right?

4:28Yes. It's getting the most out of that tool. It's getting the most out of that tool. Right, the tool of money. Your ability to convert your money into meaningful, fulfilling experiences decays over time. So, you know, your brain reaches a mental maturity around 28. Your body is physical maturity around 33. So if, by and large, if you're in the best shape of your life at 33, that is the top. Then you go into plateau and decline. I will never, ever, unless, you know, new technology, gene therapy or whatever, but be in better shape than I could have been at 33. Right. It's over.

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