Quick note before the show. Now I thought this would be a three-part series, but it turns out

that there are just too many good stories about Rockefeller's rise to wealth and power to not put forward a fourth episode.

That episode will be published quickly though as the lineup of figures that follow Rockefeller are all extremely fascinating to me and I'm eager to dive into those explorations as well.

So that's my quick note without any further foreplay. And the Control was a very important thing to a man like John D Rockefeller.

We are all aware of, or at least we should be aware of by this point of the tremendous professional power

that John D Rockefeller possessed. I mean clearly the man knew what he was doing in

business and he parlayed that skill set into massive wealth and riches.

And a lot of this success came as the result of his ability to expertly manage aspects of the

business that fed that wealth, such as tight accounting processes,

strong negotiations, and later on as the business expanded, the people that worked for him.

Rockefeller was in control of his business as much as anyone could be, and that's the way he

liked it.

But this was again, all in a professional capacity. Personally speaking,

there were a few things that he had less control over than perhaps he would have

liked, and one of those things was his health. over than perhaps he would have liked.

And one of those things was his health.

Now Rockefeller lived to be 97 years old, just a few years shy of reaching one of his goals, which was to live to be a hundred.

So we're not really discussing the aspect of his life which covers

living a long life. That he did.

What we're referring to here was John D Rockefeller's experience with hair loss.

But this was not the typical experience of hair loss that most men deal with at some point. This was much more than that.

Unknown to most, Rockefeller would suffer from generalized alopecia,

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