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You Are Playing High Stakes Poker With Your Life & Don't Even Know It

You Are Playing High Stakes Poker With Your Life & Don't Even Know It

Why you need to stack the deck in your favour

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Sep 28, 2022
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We have all heard this story:

“He did everything right, exercised every day, watched his weight, didn’t smoke and he still died young”.

What are we to do with this information?

Death and Card Players. Jan Lievens.1620. Creative Commons.

Are we to abandon all healthy habits and live just like the raucous writer Hunter S Thompson who started his day at 3 pm…

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