Shane Parrish
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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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He had been a monument of self-control through more than 60 hard-working years.
But as he reached his 80s, he entered a kind of late, mischievous boyhood.
He now owned 60 suits and several hundred ties, and sometimes changed his clothes three times a day.
He'd pick up hitchhikers to keep the conversation going on afternoon drives through the country.
Pulling into a country filling station one day, low on gas, he leaned forward and told the woman at the pump, My dear woman, we are on our way to heaven, and we'll get there sooner or later.
She looked him up and down.
You're maybe on your way to heaven, whoever you are, but I'll warn you, you'll never get there on five gallons of gas.
It became one of his favorite stories.
What Rockefeller wanted now, more than money, which he had largely stopped being able to spend, was time.
He had settled on a number, 100 years old, and he treated that project the same way that he treated everything else, as a problem of inputs and waste.
He started eating a tablespoon of olive oil a day.
He golfed each day in the open air.
He'd have five rest periods a day on a fixed schedule.
His doctor had long prophesied that he would indeed reach 100, and the two of them shook hands on a pact to play a round of golf together on July 8, 1939, his 100th birthday.
His doctor did not make it, dying in the 1920s, but his patient soldiered on.
He cut ways till the very end, studying the fire one evening at Horman Beach.
He asked the butler how long the sticks of firewood were.
Fourteen inches, the butler told him.
Would they do just as well at twelve, he asked.
The butler supposed they would.
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