Bill Perkins: Winners DIE WITH ZERO! (#098)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We all have limited time on Earth, so how should we spend it? Financial advisors urge us to be more like the ant than the grasshopper: work hard to maximize our earnings, save early and often, and, in retirement, reap the fruits of our labors and the rewards of compound interest. “What a monumental waste of human life,” says multi- millionaire Bill Perkins. If you spend a lifetime working and die with lots of money left over, you’ve squandered a huge amount of life energy, bypassing the opportunity to enjoy your money — or to give it away — during your lifetime. Our lives are only as fulfilling as the sum of our experiences, Perkins argues, so the more time and money we invest in experiences during our lifetime, the richer our lives become. “Bill Perkins’ Die With Zero opens up a completely different avenue of thinking to realize that your life can be maximized through memorable experiences. Why wait? Being present is a priority. This book provides an amazing blueprint to living your life while using your resources correctly!” —Kevin Hart, Award-Winning Comedian, and Actor Follow Bill on social media: https://www.diewithzerobook.com https://twitter.com/bp22 https://www.instagram.com/billperkins https://www.instagram.com/diewithzero/ https://www.twitch.tv/thirstlounge Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.
0:04.4	Five, four, three, two, one. on. of Die with Zero, which is an uplifting book, despite what you may think of the title.
0:27.0	The book is extremely uplifting to me, and actually I think it fits in really nicely with some of the themes we talk about here
0:34.7	on the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imaginations into the Impossible Podcast.
0:40.4	Welcome Bill Perkins, you were on a boat somewhere.
0:42.4	You don't have a landline connecting you to shore, do you?
0:45.0	No, no, we're going Wi-Fi. We're doing single technology here.
0:50.0	Oh, that's awesome. So we're in the Virgin Islands in Christmas Cove.
0:54.0	Oh, wow, okay. Oh, nice. That's great. So yeah, it's a great pleasure to be here. I just wanted to give a shout out to our mutual friend James Altacher who is one of the people
1:05.6	who gives the Ancomium or the the props to you on the back of the book here. He says about
1:11.7	this book that it's life changing and he agrees with Kevin Hart, comedian
1:18.7	Kevin Hart, who says, Dieu Zero opens up a completely different avenue of thinking so that your life can be
1:23.9	maximized through memorable experiences. Why wait? And Bill you might be
1:29.5	wondering why are you talking to a scientist although you are an engineer and I know that you're trained in engineering.
1:34.6	But the first thing I want to say is do you know what Albert Einstein's said was the greatest invention of the human mind?
1:43.0	No,, give me a guess because I have all these false clothes by I understand like compound interest, you know, which what is it?
1:50.0	He said it. He said compound interest is the greatest invention of the human mind and of course this is somebody who invented relativity,
1:57.0	coin the word the photon, did all sorts of things, but I think it's apt and your book really made me think about
2:03.7	compound interest not with money but with regard to memories and I first want to
2:10.0	ask you what can you say something about the book it for my audience, don't give away the goods,
2:15.6	although you give away so much value in this book including free worksheets that I've worked on and
2:20.9	filled out and a mailing list that people can subscribe to.
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