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by tarotuser 1205 days ago
Today in "I won the lottery, and you can too by choosing my numbers".

Guidance like this is rarely ever helpful, and serves as a bias of n=1 cause it 'worked for me'.

There's some obvious things like "drinking and smoking are bad". And there's good things like "time is your most important asset". But suggestions past those, are well just completely subjective.

Like the recommendation to move. How do you tell what a community is like before you're moved there? And most of us can't afford to move around the country chasing some illusory 'maybe'.