The 5 Types of Wealth
Sahil Bloom · 2025
"Money is one of five kinds of wealth, and the only one most people keep score of. Bloom's scoreboard adds Time, Social, Mental and Physical wealth alongside Financial, on the argument that a broken scoreboard produces broken actions — you optimize what you measure."
A friend once asked Sahil Bloom how often he saw his parents. About once a year, he said — they lived on the other coast and were in their mid-sixties. The friend did the arithmetic: so you will see them roughly fifteen more times before they die. Bloom moved back east within months. The story became the seed of a book whose claim is simple: we have been trained to treat money as the only form of wealth, so we run our lives on a scoreboard with one column and are surprised when winning on it does not feel like winning. Peter Drucker's line that what gets measured gets managed cuts both ways — a broken scoreboard produces broken actions.
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