Most people invest to grow their bank balance, but the speaker argues you should measure returns against your lifestyle instead. Real wealth is time freedom, health, relationships, and peace of mind. Align your money decisions with what actually matters and you need less of it.
Prosperous C. So most people are optimizing for the wrong thing. When we think about investing, we typically think, how can I make my bank account grow? But your investments should actually be tied to a return on lifestyle. We should optimize for non-traditional wealth. And I define non-traditional wealth as freedom of time, freedom of health, freedom of relationships, and most importantly, freedom of mind. Because all the money in the world doesn't matter It doesn't matter if I'm up in the middle of the night staring at the ceiling, super stressed out. My wealth is not serving me. So if we can actually tie our wealth to our values and create the life that we want to create, that's where most people should be focusing. And it turns out we typically don't need as much money as we think to create that optimal lifestyle, as long as we are tying our wealth to strategies that serve our values.
