Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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"'The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance.
These investigations are now taking more and more of my time and energy than the Standard Oil Company itself.
Either I must shift part of the burden or stop giving entirely, and I cannot do the latter.'"
Indeed, you cannot, Mr. Rockefeller, Gates replied.
Well, I must have a helper, and I have been watching you.
I think you are the man.
Gates took the job.
For the moment, he was a clearinghouse for all the begging letters Rockefeller received.
Later, he would become something much larger.
The ultimate cure for Rockefeller was just rest.
Under the doctor's orders, he spent eight of the next twelve months at Forest Hill, and for the first time in twenty-one years, his mind cleared.
He worked the fields beside his own laborers, rode around on his bicycle, and joked to all that would listen that he was training to be a great concert singer.
He recovered his body.
He did not recover his hair.
The loss of hair had a name, alopecia, and in the end, it took
all of it from him.
It had started as an ordinary thinning in his late 40s, but then sped up through the worst years of the 1890s and finally left nothing at all behind.
His wife said he kept the record in a memo book, John's mustache began to fall out, and all the hair on his body had followed by August.
His head, his eyebrows, his eyelashes, every hair on his body vanished.
Doctors then and now mostly shrug at the cause, but severe stress sits on every list.
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