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Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life (eBook)

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Various Digital Retailers have Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life (eBook) by Bill Perkins on sale for $2.99.

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Available Retailers:About this title:
  • Page Length: 242 pages
  • A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying rich
  • Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
  • The only thing you wasted along the way was . . . your life.
  • Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and out of your life. It's intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one's so-called "golden years."
  • In short, Bill Perkins wants to rescue you from over-saving and under-living. Regardless of your age, Die with Zero will teach you Perkins's plan for optimizing your life, stage by stage, so you're fully engaged and enjoying what you've worked and saved for.
  • You'll discover how to maximize your lifetime memorable moments with "time-bucketing," how to convert your earnings into priceless memories by following your "net worth curve," and how to navigate decisions about whether to invest in, or delay, a meaningful adventure with your "fulfillment curve" and "personal interest rate."
  • Using his own life experiences as well as the inspiring stories and cautionary tales of others—and drawing on eye-opening insights about time, money, and happiness from psychological science and behavioral finance—Perkins makes a timely, convincing, and contrarian case for living large.

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    • Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 6.6k customer reviews.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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Various Digital Retailers have Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life (eBook) by Bill Perkins on sale for $2.99.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

Note, must purchase from the available digital retailers

Available Retailers:About this title:
  • Page Length: 242 pages
  • A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying rich
  • Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
  • The only thing you wasted along the way was . . . your life.
  • Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and out of your life. It's intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one's so-called "golden years."
  • In short, Bill Perkins wants to rescue you from over-saving and under-living. Regardless of your age, Die with Zero will teach you Perkins's plan for optimizing your life, stage by stage, so you're fully engaged and enjoying what you've worked and saved for.
  • You'll discover how to maximize your lifetime memorable moments with "time-bucketing," how to convert your earnings into priceless memories by following your "net worth curve," and how to navigate decisions about whether to invest in, or delay, a meaningful adventure with your "fulfillment curve" and "personal interest rate."
  • Using his own life experiences as well as the inspiring stories and cautionary tales of others—and drawing on eye-opening insights about time, money, and happiness from psychological science and behavioral finance—Perkins makes a timely, convincing, and contrarian case for living large.

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 6.6k customer reviews.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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CrouchingCanine
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The book does provide -some- good advice but I struggle with the fact that the author does not even follow his own advice.
Even figuring his 2023 estimated net worth of $500M... he likely has less than a 30 year time horizon since he is already 61. Even if you ignore any future grown (which could quadruple the value), he would have to spend about $1.4M per month to die with zero.
He said he already gave away his inheritances so that he could see the good it can do while he is still alive. Why not do the same for charitable causes? Why not give away all but about $50M? Seems to me like he is just a wealth hoarder who wrote a book to make even more money since his wealth could have allowed him to give the book away for free if he truly wanted to help people.
ohhenry1
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This book hit home for me. It made a profound and positive difference in my life.

Granted, the book isn't for everyone; many or most people are struggling to get ahead, or even to make ends meet. The ideas in this book are not going to be helpful to them.

But for those who have built up a healthy surplus . . . and then continued to spend the best years of their lives building upon that surplus (after all, the more the better, right?) . . .

. . . well, this book might make you more acutely aware of the opportunity costs of your good habits.

It might make you stop to consider at what point your good habits are no longer furthering your overall interests.
Rokket
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This is all good until you've spent all your money and you're not dead yet. Medicaid assisted living is not where I want to end up.

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interesting concept
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Excellent book, just finished it on Audible
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I wish I'd read this 20 years ago. Yeah it could've been a magazine article not a book but it's easy reading and makes perfect sense.
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Good book, easy read. Some interesting ideas in here
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Greatest book written in the past 10 years. I make everyone I know read this.
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Greatest book written in the past 10 years. I make everyone I know read this.

What is the tl;dr version?
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Quote from homers54321 :
What is the tl;dr version?

Die with zero
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This is all good until you've spent all your money and you're not dead yet. Medicaid assisted living is not where I want to end up.
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Quote from Rokket :
This is all good until you've spent all your money and you're not dead yet. Medicaid assisted living is not where I want to end up.
That's when credit cards become handy.
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Quote from shape107 :
That's when credit cards become handy.

That's Die with a Negative Balance
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That's when credit cards become handy.

I'm surprised credit companies haven't decided to start lowering your credit rating once you hit retirement
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I'm surprised credit companies haven't decided to start lowering your credit rating once you hit retirement

let's not give them any ideas...
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Quote from homers54321 :
What is the tl;dr version?
"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being."
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank ohhenry1

This book hit home for me. It made a profound and positive difference in my life.

Granted, the book isn't for everyone; many or most people are struggling to get ahead, or even to make ends meet. The ideas in this book are not going to be helpful to them.

But for those who have built up a healthy surplus . . . and then continued to spend the best years of their lives building upon that surplus (after all, the more the better, right?) . . .

. . . well, this book might make you more acutely aware of the opportunity costs of your good habits.

It might make you stop to consider at what point your good habits are no longer furthering your overall interests.
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