The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom

The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom is a self-help book published in 2025.

The 5 Types of Wealth offers a fresh perspective on building a meaningful life in 2025. Bloom encourages defining the right game: one that aligns with the life you genuinely want. Along the way, he advises rejecting the broken scoreboard that society often hands us, replacing it with values that truly matter.

Never let the quest for more distract from the beauty of enough. Don’t chase “castles in the air” while letting your real house fall down. And avoid the arrival fallacy – the mistaken belief that achieving a specific goal will bring lasting contentment. 

Introduction

• Money enables life but does not define it
• Judging by the wrong scoreboard (money as success):
  • Time slips away
  • Relationships crack
  • Purpose and growth fade
  • Physical vitality weakens
  • Pyrrhic victory — success at such a steep cost that it feels like defeat
• New Scoreboard: 5 types of wealth → happiness embedded in the journey
• Life strategy
  • Focus on direction, not speed
  • Move intentionally using goals and anti-goals as compass
  • Use a dimmer, not an on-off switch
    • Ignoring an area too long has lasting consequences
    • Adopt surfer’s mindset: alternating growth and maintenance seasons

Time Wealth

• Question: how many moments do you have remaining with loved ones?
• 3 Pillars:
  • Awareness: recognize finite, impermanent nature of time
  • Attention: focus on what truly matters
  • Control: own your time, consciously choose how to spend it
• Insights:
  • You may not be near the end of your life, but you might be near the end of your time together with your loved ones
  • Society normalizes being time poor in pursuit of money — the root of modern struggle
  • Without control, others own your schedule and priorities
• Tools:
  • Time Wealth Hard Reset
  • Energy Calendar
  • Two-List Exercise
  • Eisenhower Matrix
  • Index Card Method
  • Parkinson’s Law
  • Anti-Procrastination System
  • Flow State Boot-Up Sequence
  • Effective Delegation
  • Art of No
  • Energy Creators
  • Time Blocking
    • Creation
    • Management
    • Consumption
    • Ideation

Social Wealth

• Question: who will be sitting in the front row at your funeral?
• 3 Pillars:
  • Depth: deep, meaningful bonds with a small circle
  • Breadth: wider sense of connection through community, culture, or shared purpose
  • Earned Status: respect built through character and contribution – not possessions
• Insights:
  • Strong, healthy relationships are the greatest predictor of life satisfaction
  • The biggest predictor of physical health at 80 is relationship satisfaction at 50
  • In 20 years, the only people who will remember you worked late are your kids
  • Remembering death helps you avoid the illusion of having something to lose
• Tools:
  • Hacks I Wish I Knew @ 22
  • Relationship Map
  • 2 Rules for Growing in Love (understand love languages, avoid the traps)
  • Life Dinner
  • Helped, Heard, or Hugged
  • Brain Trust
  • Public Speaking Guide
  • 4 Principles of a Master Conversationalist
    • Create doorknobs
    • Loud listener
    • Repeat & follow
    • Situational eye contact
  • Anti-Networking Guide
    • Find value-aligned groups
    • Ask engaging questions
    • Become a level 2/3 listener
    • Use creative follow-ups
  • Status Tests 
    • Would you buy this if you could not tell anyone about it?
    • Could the richest person in the world acquire the thing I want by tomorrow?

Mental Wealth

• Question: what would your 10-year-old self say to you today?
• 3 Pillars:
  • Purpose: define a unique vision that creates meaning
  • Growth: embrace your dynamic potential
  • Space: create stillness to think
• Insights:
  • Curiosity is foundational — fuels mental and physical health
  • Ikigai: intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, and what the world needs
  • Fight to maintain distinctiveness — consistently and relentlessly
  • Purpose provides daily meaning and longevity
  • Space is not lazy; it’s rocket fuel for the mind
• Tools:
  • Hacks I Wish I Knew @ 22
  • Power of Ikigai
  • Pursuit Map
  • Feynman Technique
  • Spaced-Repitition Method
  • Socratic Method
  • Power Walk
  • Personal Power-Down Ritual
  • 1-1-1 Journaling Method
  • Think Day
    • If I repeated my current day for 100 days, would my life improve or decline?
    • Observers of my week: what would they infer my priorities are?
    • As a movie character: what would the audience urge me to do?
    • Am I hunting antelope (big important problems) or mice (small urgent problems)?
    • How can I do less, but better?
    • What lessons do I know now that I wish I’d known five years ago?

Physical Wealth

• Question: will you be dancing at your eightieth birthday party?
• 3 Pillars:
  • Movement: cardiovascular, strength, stability & flexibility
  • Nutrition: overall caloric intake, macronutrients, micronutrients, hydration
  • Recovery: sleep!
• Insights:
  • Futures thinking — take actions today so your future self thanks you
  • Treat your body like a house you’ll live in for another 70 years
  • Pareto’s 80/20 principle — focus on what moves the needle most
  • Don’t let diet prevent enjoyment of life – avoid rigid dogmas
• Tools:
  • Physical Wealth 30-Day Challenge
  • A Level 3 Training Plan That Works
  • Common-Sense Diet
  • Science-Backed Breathing Protocols
  • Science-Backed Morning Routine
    • Wake Up
    • Hydrate
    • Move
    • Get Outside
    • Focus
  • 9 Rules for Sleep
    • Regular Schedule
    • View Morning Sunlight
    • Control your Sleep Environment
    • Avoid Food Before Bed
    • Avoid Excess Liquids Before Bed
    • Avoid Caffeine in Afternoon
    • Cut Back on Alcohol
    • Create a Wind-Down Routine
    • Avoid Screens Before Bed

Financial Wealth

• Question: what is your definition of enough?
• 3 Pillars:
  • Income Generation: primary work, side gigs, passive streams
  • Expense Management: keep expenses below income
  • Long-Term Investment: invest the surplus
• Insights:
  • Hedonic adaptation: tendency to return to a baseline after positive events
  • Avoid the upward spiral of expectations — define what “enough” truly means
  • Stick to the basics and play your game long enough
  • Money does not solve all problems — it only solves money problems
• Tools:
  • How to Define Your Enough Life (what is the gap, steps to close that gap)
  • Hacks I Wish I Knew @ 22
  • 7 Pieces of Career Advice
  • 7 Principles of Expense Management 
  • 8 Investment Assets for Long Term Wealth
  • Return-on-Hassle Spectrum
  • The Greatest Investment In The World
  • 6 Marketable Meta-Skills
    • Sales
    • Storytelling
    • Design
    • Writing
    • Software Engineering
    • Data Science