He had everything he wanted by 30, but was still 'miserable'—until he learned what really matters in life

When Sahil Bloom was in college, he turned to the richest people he knew for career advice. That’s how the Stanford baseball player — whose athletic aspirations were curtailed by a shoulder injury junior year — ended up in investing.

“By the time I turned 30, I had achieved every marker of what I believed success looked like. I had the high-paying job, the title, the house, the car — it was all there,” he writes in his book “The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.”

“But beneath the surface, I was miserable,” he writes. “All I could think was: Is this it?”

It was around the same time that a friend of his laid this nugget on him over a drink: “You’re going to see your parents 15 more times before they die,” given how far away they lived and how often Bloom had been visiting.

For many years, “I had prioritized one thing at the expense of everything,” he writes. That one thing was money — until he realized he was doing it all wrong. What we should all be looking at is “time, people, purpose, health.”