Sahlil Bloom explains why chasing net worth alone leaves you feeling broke. When expectations grow faster than your assets, wealth stays out of reach. What you measure shapes what you value.
What was the impetus for you to write that book? Because at that point you weren't an influencer. You weren't saying, I want to really get out and help people make similar decisions to what I've done. I wanted to try to understand why I had fallen victim to that trap in the first place, because I knew if I was falling victim to it, there were going to be millions of other people. You feel like you're the only one in the world. The whole world is collapsing in on you. You're the only one. And what I realized is it's quite simple, which is that what you measure in life really matters. So if all you measure is your net worth, like that's how I'm going to measure my entire worth as a human being with the The recognition being your expectations are your single greatest financial liability. If your expectations grow and rise faster than your assets, you'll never feel wealthy. You'll just be chasing whatever more the world has told you that you should want.
