This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic scholar instead of a real estate mogul. If true, I wonder how many “successful” people are leading the life the environment (and others) want them to lead.
True, one has to assume that many “I wish I did x instead of y” are episodic rather than deep; but in general it is more painful to see misrouted success than misrouted failure.
nytimes.com
Mr. Reichmann took enormous business risks, made and lost billions of dollars and built extensively in Toronto, New York and London.
This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.