1: In the 1980s, Microsoft founder Bill Gates began secluding himself for a week each year, cutting off communication to dedicate time solely to reading and thinking.

He called it “Think Week.”

It was his time “to be creative and push his thinking with new depth and breadth,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

“It allowed him … continue reading

1: “Shutdown complete.”

Those are the two words we should say at the end of our workday.

Why? Because we are trying to create a “bright line” between our professional and personal lives.

When we are working, we are working. All-in. 100%.

And when our workday is over, we set a boundary so we can be 100% present with our families, friends, hobbies, or whatever we do to relax and … continue reading

1: “In an early 2000s study on the impact of meditation,”  Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth, “psychologist Richard Davidson asked Matthieu Ricard to meditate while covered in sensors and wires.”

Matthieu had earned his PhD in cellular genetics before leaving academia to become a Buddhist monk in India.

“Along the way,” Sahil notes, “he worked as a French interpreter for the Dalai Lama… continue reading

1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.

Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share a fresh perspective on living.

This week, we’ve been exploring some of Sahil Bloom‘s ideas on Mental Wealth from his book The 5 Types of Wealth. Today, we share a selection of “Mental Wealth Hacks I Wish I Knew … continue reading

1: Stanford business professor Tina Seelig divided her class into fourteen teams and gave them a challenge:

“Each group would get five dollars of seed funding and have two hours to make as much money as possible,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

When the two hours were up, each team presented their approach and results, sharing … continue reading

Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

A brilliant thinker, without a doubt.

His true genius, however, was his ability to convey complex ideas in simple, elegant ways, as described by Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

“He observed that complexity and jargon,” Sahil notes, “are often used to … continue reading

1: Research shows that people who have a clear life purpose “lived about seven years longer and had a higher quality of life than those who did not,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.

Another study links “a strong sense of purpose with a lower risk of all-cause mortality after age fifty,” Sahil notes.

Yet, the idea of creating a life’s purpose can feel … continue reading

1: “John D. Rockefeller was one of the most successful—and ruthless—businessmen in history,”Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

After growing up in humble, unstable circumstances, John built Standard Oil into “a gargantuan conglomerate with immense global reach and outsize influence in all manner of world affairs,” Sahil observes.

To put his wealth into perspective, by … continue reading

1: Stanford professor Dr. Carol Dweck and her colleagues administered a nonverbal IQ test to two groups of adolescents

Afterwards, one group was praised for their intelligence (“You must be smart!”).

The other was praised for their effort (“You must have worked really hard!”).

The researchers then administered a second test with a harder set of problems.  

“The intelligence-praised children performed worse,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 … continue reading

1: Want to live an extra seven years?

According to an eleven-year study led by Robert Butler, one of the pioneers of healthy-aging research, “Those who expressed a clear purpose in life lived about seven years longer and had a higher quality of life than those who did not,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.

There’s more.

“A more recent 2019 study in … continue reading