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I found this statistic the other day. I added it up. It was not that hard to find but there are 13 divorces

among the 10 richest men in the world.

I repeat that.

Among the ten richest men in the world, there are a combined 13 divorces.

And seven of the top ten richest men in the world have been divorced at least once.

Now, correlation is not causation, and that sample size is tiny, of course.

But a statistic that is so much worse than the national average on a topic that is so fundamental to happiness,

all among a group of people whose lives are envied by so many other people is interesting, isn't it?

I've always thought it was. It kind of blew my mind.

Look, there are a million ways to get rich, most of which involve exploiting very specific opportunities

to say nothing of luck and that sort of thing.

So universal rules about how to get rich are very hard to come by. But losing money or losing

happiness when you have money or becoming a slave to your money or your money

interfering with the happiness in your family. Those

stories tend to have common denominators. Some of those stories are so common that

you can call them laws. This episode is called a few laws of getting rich. Now, measuring wealth is very easy.

You just count it up. You count their net worth. Very easy.

Measuring some of the downsides of wealth, though, is so much harder and more nuanced.

So you can measure your net worth,

but how do you measure a life that's going to lead you

to get divorced multiple times?

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