Actually I’m hoping for $5M but that will be for the markets to decide.
Enoch59's Life List
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1. Stay married till death do us part
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2. Retire with at least $3,000,000
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3. Become a Freemason
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4. Read 7 tomes of the Babylonian Talmud
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5. Read the Iliad in the original Greek
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6. Run a 5K in under 30 minutes
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7. Read the Philokalia in Old Church Slavonic
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8. Learn enough Chinese to pass the HSK
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9. Win the lottery
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10. Grow my own vegetables
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11. Run a 10K in less than an hour
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How I did it
How I did it: Partly self-taught, partly through classes at university. And then above all by keeping to a reading schedule after I graduated, for my own pleasure. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I used a method I read a blog article about (below in the resources section), where you read Virgil and Ovid with these old editions they have on Google books. What's special about them is that they have a simplified paraphrase in easy Latin to go with the poem. So if you don't know what 'tellus' means, you look in the margin and it says 'terra', which hopefully you do know. It's faster than using English notes because y… Read how I did it…
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(By ‘tomes’ I am referring to the Artscroll Schottenstein edition of the Talmud.)
