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Bloom Where You're Planted
Feb. 15th, 2025 08:02 amThis morning I was reading Sahil Bloom's The 5 Types of Wealth (it's a book club pick) and Mr Bloom floated an interesting idea. I am not an entrepreneur or anything, and I have never had any ambition to change the world, aside from occasionally wanting to yell at people to stop being stupid. The general idea is that you have obvious monetary wealth, but also social, time, and physical wealth. If you have a massive net worth but never see your kids, you've got some obvious problems. But anyway, that wasn't the bit that got my attention.
He takes the idea of ikigai - an idea that started getting popular in 2015 or so - and made a simple, obvious adjustment to it. Normally it's a sweet spot of what you love to do, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for. In my case that looks less like a tidy Venn diagram and more like several unaffiliated blobs. All Sahil did was remove "what you can get paid for." Unless someone's been holding out on me, I can't get paid for sitting around in my pajamas and farting.
Just taking out that one element made the whole idea click. It was probably worth getting the book just for that nudge. I enjoy writing and I'm told I'm good at it, but what did I want to DO with it? At the moment, aside from what little I share here, on Pillowfort, or what I send to folks through Google Docs, no one much sees my work and I don't send it in anywhere.
Depending on how finances shake out this year ... kinda thinking about signing up for some creative writing courses or something similar.
He takes the idea of ikigai - an idea that started getting popular in 2015 or so - and made a simple, obvious adjustment to it. Normally it's a sweet spot of what you love to do, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for. In my case that looks less like a tidy Venn diagram and more like several unaffiliated blobs. All Sahil did was remove "what you can get paid for." Unless someone's been holding out on me, I can't get paid for sitting around in my pajamas and farting.
Just taking out that one element made the whole idea click. It was probably worth getting the book just for that nudge. I enjoy writing and I'm told I'm good at it, but what did I want to DO with it? At the moment, aside from what little I share here, on Pillowfort, or what I send to folks through Google Docs, no one much sees my work and I don't send it in anywhere.
Depending on how finances shake out this year ... kinda thinking about signing up for some creative writing courses or something similar.
