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Michael Lewis

A Bazillionaire's Guide to Stress Relief

Any hedge-fund manager who wants to pursue a calming strategy obviously needs new, superior stress relieving techniques, unknown to the weaker individuals whose anxiety he seeks to exploit. 
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I'd like to start by making a confession: It's never been easy being me.

Managing billions of dollars of other people's money, and countless millions of my own, has been highly stressful. There was a time when I thought my anxiety, not to mention the investigations of my affairs by various U.S. government authorities, might break me -- and so, on the advice of my attorneys, I took some time off. But that period of my life, thankfully, is now over. Just last week, for the first time in months, I fired up my Bloomberg terminal!