The Pursuit of Wealth: Barista to Billionaire - Andrew Wilkinson

People just have all these weird ways of measuring your worth, and I just don't want to spend time around people who measure worth and things like that because it's a path to misery. Wearing a fancy watch does not help me meet my goals. It doesn't give me freedom. It doesn't help me connect with others, it doesn't help me be a good dad, and it doesn't help me give away money. I'd say spending money on material possessions is the height of misery.

What you're about to hear is a conversation between me and Andrew Wilkinson, the first billionaire that we've ever had on the podcast. Cast a billionaire with a B, and he has recently written a book. It's titled Never Enough, From Barista to Billionaire. It's really my midlife crisis, honestly. I wrote it when I was 36 years old, which is about the halfway point of most people's lives, and I was just feeling kind of lost and needed to work it out, and so I worked it out via writing.

A big topic of conversation in this podcast between me and Andrew is that we are talking a lot about money. But we start off by talking about the downsides of being a billionaire. It's not great. There's lots of really interesting downsides that nobody thinks about.

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