On Monday 7th November 2022 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed Die With Zer: Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins.
In this summary of Die With Zero by Bill Perkins I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.
Die With Zero is about maximising your life experiences. Early on in the book Bill writes “What I am an advocate for is deciding what makes you happy and then converting your money into the experiences you choose.” He wants people to stop living on autopilot and instead to choose their experiences deliberately and purposefully. He believes that in order to “increase your overall lifetime fulfillment, it’s important to have each experience at the right age”.
Investing in experiences is so important that is has it’s own chapter in the book. Bill’s theory is that experiences mean are enjoyable at the time and then we get further enjoyment when thinking about the experience later on in life. Therefore, he believes we should be focusing as early as possible on having enjoyable experiences. Especially those that will be better when we are in better health.
Dying with a net worth of zero is virtually impossible unless you know exactly when you are going to die, but Bill believes that many people are oversaving for investment. He faces the main question people ask when he explains his idea – “What about the children?” in a way that personally seems a much more sensible way of thinking about inheritance.
Balancing health, money and free time is central to this book and through understanding the shift that will inevitably happen you can use his time-bucketing techniques to think more intentionally about what you want to experience at what age in the future.
Overall, this book is going to challenge the way you think about using your time and money throughout the duration of your life and help you get the most out of your life and not just end with a whole load of money that you worked hard to earn but then didn’t get to spend.
That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Die With Zero by Bill Perkins.
Like the sound of Die With Zero? Why not buy a copy of the book and read it yourself?
Die With Zero by Bill Perkins was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.
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