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You Don’t Need Money
To research investment strategies
Currently, thanks to fighting cancer and being divorced, I make very little money. Whatever I do have goes towards my treatment.
Yet I sometimes write about financial issues, investments, and so on.
How does this make sense?
For the same reason I enjoy learning about historical figures and the arts and technology of those times without actually being able to directly experience them.
I’m curious and I like to learn.
Plus, when it comes to money — I’m an optimist. I hope to beat the cancer and be in a position again to earn money. When that happens, the research I am doing now, and what I am learning, may help.
I think this is the nature of optimism — you expect life to get better.
It’s why I planted a garden even though my doctors expected me to die in a few months when I was diagnosed with cancer. I expect to live.
I was diagnosed with cancer in April of 2021.
I had surgery to remove a lemon-sized brain tumor. My surgeon, when asked point-blank, was honest with me and told me he expected I would be in hospice within 6 months. I appreciated him telling me that because it just added to my motivation to fight and win.
