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The School of Greatness · June 5, 2026 · 1h 08m

Why Your Retirement Plan Is Wasting Your Life | Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins
Show Notes

Hedge fund manager and Die With Zero author Bill Perkins argues that conventional retirement planning wastes life by hoarding money for an uncertain future. He introduces his framework for maximizing fulfillment through memory dividends, time buckets, and balancing wealth, health, and time. The conversation covers the 'life is like Tetris' metaphor for seizing experiences at the right moment, optimal timing for transferring wealth to children, breaking scarcity mindsets, and redefining success as net fulfillment over net worth.

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Novel

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Memory Dividends
Bill Perkins argues that spending on experiences early in life produces 'memory dividends'—compound returns of happiness from reminiscing.
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Time Buckets
Perkins suggests dividing life into decades and allocating specific types of experiences (adventures, family, luxury) to each bucket.
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Wealth, Health, Time Triangulation
Perkins explains that maximizing life requires optimizing three variables: wealth, health, and free time, which peak at different life stages.
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Net Fulfillment Over Net Worth
Perkins proposes measuring life success by net fulfillment—the total sum of positive experiences—rather than net worth.
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Highlights

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Life is Like Tetris
Perkins uses the analogy 'life is like Tetris' to illustrate how experiences must fit into the available window of time, health, and opportunity.
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Editorial

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Three Keys to Earning More
Perkins shares three practical keys to increasing income: belief in one's potential, adopting a growth mindset, and consistent action.
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References

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Die With Zero — Bill Perkins (2020) — Framework discussed throughout the episode
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