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The School of Greatness

Why Your Retirement Plan Is Wasting Your Life | Bill Perkins

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Hedge fund manager and Die With Zero author Bill Perkins discusses his framework for maximizing life fulfillment through memory dividends, time buckets, and the three-variable model of wealth, health, and time. Topics include the "life is like Tetris" concept, optimal timing for transferring wealth to children, breaking generational scarcity conditioning, net fulfillment over net worth, and three keys to earning more: belief, mindset, and consistency.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone at the School of Greatness.

0:04.0

Very excited about our guests.

0:06.0

We have the inspiring Bill Perkins in the house.

0:08.0

My man, good to see you, brother.

0:10.0

Great to see you.

0:11.0

Great to see you, man.

0:12.0

For those that don't know you, you have done amazing things in business and financially over your life.

0:20.0

You have, as a hedge fund manager, trading mostly natural. in business and financially over your life.

0:25.5

You have, as a hedge fund manager, trading mostly natural gas,

0:30.5

you've brought in over $2.2 billion in profits for your businesses.

0:36.5

You've personally brought in over $600 million to you individually over the years.

0:41.7

And you've had an incredible experience unlocking financial freedom for yourself and showing others how to do that as well. And a lot of

0:47.1

people struggle around the idea of money. I mean, the idea of how do I make money? Am I deserving

0:53.0

of more money? Is money good? Is it bad?

0:56.0

What do I do with my money? Do I save it for a rainy day? Do I keep it all until I retire when

1:02.2

I'm old and can't move? Do I give my money to my kids? Do I give it to charity? What do people

1:09.2

do with their money? You've had an inside look around some of the richest people in the world,

1:14.7

some of the biggest celebrities in the world, massive personalities,

1:18.5

and you've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly,

1:20.9

and you've also experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly around what money can do for people.

1:27.7

I'm curious, where did your fascination with and the ugly around what money can do for people. Right.

1:28.6

And I'm curious, where did your fascination with wanting to make more money come from

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