Change Is Here Whether You Like It or Not

May 14, 2025

I've always been a bit of an odd person. And I think I know why.

My career has zigzagged all over the place – from business school to Wall Street to medicine and more.

I've lived in three different countries and, goodness, 10 different cities in the U.S.

And by just about any measure I'd apply to my career, it has been a great success.

You could credit that to hard work or intelligence or any number of qualities that have helped me. But I think one underlying quality has allowed me to do so much with my life...

I've never been afraid of change.

When someone asked if I could move to London to set up Goldman Sachs' European derivative desk... sure!

Want to start a biotech company? Let's give it a shot!

Each season the grapes come in at my vineyard, it's a brand-new puzzle to solve.

And the big one, of course, was going to medical school at an age when many doctors had stopped learning in favor of relying on their lessons from years ago.

Even in my retirement age, while others can get stuck in comfortable patterns, I'm taking on new challenges and big new roles.

(I apply the same openness in my personal life, though I won't get into all of those unexpected and rewarding adventures in these pages.)

If I could get my subscribers to adopt one lesson – whether they are just graduating college or about to retire from the workforce – it would be to embrace change and get comfortable with uncertainty... because that's where the richness of life lies.

That isn't always easy. For many people, change is synonymous with anxiety.

The world is changing faster than ever before. It doesn't just feel that way. It's true.

For the bulk of human history, our lives were much like that of not just our parents, but our great-great-grandparents. As William Manchester writes in A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age...

In the medieval mind there was also no awareness of time, which is even more difficult to grasp. Inhabitants of the twentieth century are instinctively aware of past, present, and future... Medieval men were rarely aware of which century they were living in. There was no reason they should have been. There are great differences between everyday life in 1791 and 1991, but there were very few between 791 and 991... Generations succeeded one another in a meaningless, timeless blur. In the whole of Europe, which was the world as they knew it, very little happened. Popes, emperors, and kings died and were succeeded by new popes, emperors, and kings; wars were fought, spoils divided; communities suffered, then recovered from, natural disasters. But the impact on the masses was negligible. This lockstep continued for a period of time roughly corresponding in length to the time between the Norman conquest of England, in 1066, and the end of the twentieth century.

Now, it's hard to imagine living 100 years ago. Change is rapid.

Many of us lament the loss of a simpler time... like the 1990s. We complain that those 20 years younger than us are growing up in a "different world."

In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, "Think about it: The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again."

And he's right. Change is only going to accelerate... and get bigger... And it's going to get weird.

The latest rush of change is all because of one thing... artificial intelligence ("AI").

I know you've heard a lot about AI. You may even be suffering from a bit of AI fatigue. However, you need to understand this technology because it's here to stay.

Not only is AI going to dramatically change all our lives from this point forward, but it could also impact your wealth for decades to come...

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Here's to our health, wealth, and a great retirement,

Dr. David Eifrig and the Health & Wealth Bulletin Research Team
May 14, 2025