The Rarest Currency (Not What You Think)

People say Bitcoin is the rarest currency.

No.

Time is the rarest currency.

And we’re all broke.

That’s what hit me (again) when I sat down with Sahil Bloom on my podcast.

Years back, Sahil had everything: A great job. Private equity. Fancy title. Big salary. He was “winning” the game.

But he felt poor—poor in the ways that matter. Poor in time. In connection. In health. In purpose.

And he almost let it all slip away. Until a thought experiment from Tim Ferriss changed everything:

“How often do you see your parents?”

 Once a year.

“How old are they?”

Mid-60s.

“Then you’ll see them… maybe 20 more times before they die. If you’re lucky.”

That stopped him in his tracks.

It stopped me too.

Because we never think of time like that. We think we’re immortal. That we’ll have the perfect moment to fix things. But the perfect moment doesn’t come.

Only regrets do.

So Sahil quit. Sold his house. Moved 3,000 miles. And built a new scoreboard.

He calls it The Five Types of Wealth:

• Time Wealth
• Social Wealth
• Mental Wealth
• Physical Wealth
• Financial Wealth

We broke down each one in the podcast. And it’s not fluff. He’s not selling you a course or a mastermind.

He’s just sharing the actual questions and frameworks that helped him go from “finance bro burning out” to “dad, writer, thinker, and guy who actually likes his life now.”

Some of my favorite moments:

• How to find purpose before a crisis forces you to
• Why doing 10% more can give you 100% more opportunity
• The surprising truth about self-help content (and why Sahil’s version actually works)
• Why quitting might be the richest thing you can do

And the story that stuck out?

He told me about a factory worker who hated his job. But then he connected his job to being the father he never had for his boys. Suddenly that soul-sucking 10-hour shift became sacred.

Purpose doesn’t need to look pretty. Sometimes, it looks like a man on an assembly line making his kids proud.

And it can change everything without needing to change anything.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re on the wrong train, heading to a destination you didn’t choose, this is your stop.

 Get off.

 Listen to this.

→The Five Types of Wealth with Sahil Bloom

And do me a favor—listen all the way through.

The punchline’s not at the top. It’s buried in the second half. Like life.