What are some lifestyle choices or decisions you’ve made that most people would consider “unconventional”? — taking a different path, coloring outside the lines, etc. If those choices are in hindsight, how do you think about them now?
1. For multiple years, I spent about 60% of my waking hours playing chess.
2. Quit my job at a prestigious hedge fund, hello @CliffordAsness, to start a company.
3. Got cognitive behavioral therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder and did it without meds.
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4. Taught myself Chinese while living on and off in China. 5. Built a warehousing operation in rural Texas. 6. Started a litigation financing company when such thing did not exist.
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1. Basically a waste of time. Success in one field did not translate to another and unfortunately I did not learn how to learn. Domain dependence :( 2. I'd love to see the parallel universe where I did not quit. 3. Hardest and best thing I've ever done. Kill your demons.
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