Life Razor: Cut through noise, live with clarity

As the year ends, resolutions return like ritual.

- By Ishani Maheshwari Writer

We promise to wake up earlier, eat better, work harder, save more, and somehow become a better version of ourselves overnight. Yet by February, most resolutions fade—not from lack of intent, but because life gets noisy again. Perhaps what we need is not more ambition, but more clarity.

Entrepreneur and writer Sahil Bloom, in The 5 Types of Wealth, introduces a powerful idea: the Life Razor. Inspired by mental razors—simple rules that cut through complexity—a Life Razor is a personal principle that helps us decide quickly, calmly, and consistently.

A resolution adds pressure. A Life Razor removes friction.