[fasteo]

From a really quick read, good advice and a great read — though, as he admits in the introduction, luck played its role in how things turned out:

>>> That I’d survived thus far, scathed but in happy circumstances, was thanks neither to grit, determination, nor wise counsel, but mostly luck.

Would things have been different if he’d lived by his own advice earlier? Maybe. But it’s impossible to know. Pushing back a little: don't underestimate luck. It can be deeply unfair, and it can distort our sense of what is deserved or earned.

This is not to say that principles, effort, wisdom don't matter. But so does the randomness of where, when, and under what conditions we live and act.