Turning my life around. Seeing the level of criminality I was involved with, and coming to the realisation that it was not the life that I should be leading.
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Chekhov said, any idiot can weather a crisis, it’s the day-to-day living that wears you out. I think the same is true for great achievements. It’s not a big thing, but one ought to feel proud about the small moments in which you might have helped, cared for, or done something good for others.
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I remember the day. It was just such a big day. It happened to be the same day that I got to be on the cover of Forbes. And I remember just being so overwhelmed by the opportunity that we had at hand, that we had closed this $1.45 billion fund - first time - probably in the top five of first-time funds ever that had been closed.
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Reece Shearsmith
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Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.
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Lasting this long.
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That to-do list I am supposed to get through but can’t summon the energy for in these weird, distracted times.
Today, waking up in the dark hours of the morning with a litter of puppies snoozing on my bed.
We don’t play songs at funerals where I’m from, but if they had to – Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
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