Episode · ChooseFI · 2025-10-05
Books mentioned on 567 | Are We Taking the Wrong Risks?
Most financial independence seekers are winning at money but losing at life—and they don't even realize it. Chris Hutchins and Brad Barrett challenge the FI community's obsession with safety, exploring whether the real risk isn't running out of money, but running out of time to enjoy it.
Chris Hutchins recommended The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom, and discussed Die with Zero by Bill Perkins and Happy Money by Ken Honda.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Die with Zero
Discussed“And the biggest one that kind of just left me, you know, you have a conversation with someone and it just leaves you thinking for a while and that happened to me with Bill Perkins talking about Die With Zero and Tyler was talking about the 4% rule”
Where to get it
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The 5 Types of Wealth
Recommended“I'm happy to send you a link, but Sahil Bloom wrote this book, The Five Types of Wealth. Uh I've done a couple interviews with him and in one of them, we talked about, you know, the time spent with different people in your life”
Where to get it
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Happy Money
Discussed“And the entire like I go back to this book Happy Money where it's like these five different ways to spend money for happiness. It was kind of like a science recap of some research and one of them is to prepay for things.”
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