Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Yes, Jack unfortunately has a bad heart. He was born with a rare genetic heart disease called arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, or ARVD. And that means that Jack suffers his first heart attack in 1960, at age 31. So before he even becomes CEO of Wellington Management. That was his first heart attack. He had, like, 10, 12 over his life. It was like a ticking time bomb. At any moment in time, he knew he could just drop dead. And what Jack decided to do with this was work. At the age of 36, he got a pacemaker, and he consulted a doctor, and that doctor said, "You really shouldn't count on living past 40. " Then he went and talked to a second doctor, and that doctor said, "Why don't you get a place out in Cape Cod and stop working and enjoy the last few years you have left? Don't work anymore. " He wrote at one point, "If I had taken the second doctor's advice, the first doctor would have been right." Yeah, yeah, man, this is totally Jack's unique personality. The way he approaches this part of his life is not gonna change a thing. I'm just gonna live every day the same way I would've lived it if I didn't have this disease.…

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