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The Art Of The Good Life #7: The Ovarian Lottery
By My 15 Hour Work Week  •  June 8, 2018
  I first heard about the Ovarian Lottery when reading Warren Buffett’s autobiography. He is an extraordinary investor, but he himself remarked that if he had been born somewhere in the middle of Asia, he would be destined for a life as some type of labourer. Most likely, he would end up very very ordinary since he would not be able to utilise most of his innate talents. This kind of thinking helps Buffett to justify pledging most of his wealth away and also motivate other billionaires to follow suit. So basically, the aim of this chapter is to force us to acknowledge how luck plays such a crucial role in our successes and to be more charitable. In the book, the author Rolf Dobelli mentioned that most Americans would pay up to 80% of their income to be born in America as compared to Bangladesh. But well, this was just ......
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By My 15 Hour Work Week
Hi, I am Thomas (a.k.a. Mr 15HWW) and I am in my early thirties. Very happily married (very strong emphasis here), I am the co-writer behind this blog. The other permanent writer is my wife Jasmine who has written two blog post so far (good luck searching for it here). But well, her contribution goes far and deep since she thinks she is actually the mastermind behind the rest of the other post ...
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