Hatton contemplated suicide

[Andre]

Just saying, no matter who you are, if you've got $100 mil in the bank, but you're snorting large amounts of cocaine, going drinking binges and contemplating suicide, then you aren't showing a high degree of intelligence, are you now.

If you scale down your money quote to 'just rich' instead of 'superrich', its funny how your quote describes a lot of people in the legal and medical professions - drinking binges at college, drug useand a high suicide rate amongst the professions. I am sure they were stupid in passing all their bar and med school exams.

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Very true,but there are degrees of stupidity, you have intelligence and IQ and then you have poor me types who believe they are victims of circumstance totally beyond their control when in fact they attract their own further downfall in it; where as others in the same situation wil use it as spring board to go further and embrace change.

In regards to money and position think it shows us that many people are driven not by their own heart but by others expectations or by their own ego which eventually fails to fill us too.

The richest of heart give back freely and grow way beyond their first aim.

[RohanKnight]

Very true,but there are degrees of stupidity, you have intelligence and IQ and then you have poor me types who believe they are victims of circumstance totally beyond their control when in fact they attract their own further downfall in it; where as others in the same situation wil use it as spring board to go further and embrace change.

you wirte very intelligently but you also have a misconception about what mental illness is in the form of depression.
Chronically depressed people are often the exact types who use the situation as a spring board and go further than those who fail. The two personality types you just described are not mutally exclusive at all, you cant say there is one group that fail and one group that dont by dint of their different personalities. Or else theres no way some of our greatest minds (who were mentally ill) would have acheived some of the greatest feat known to man, like Einstein's theory of relativity, and theres few things that are light years ahead of the crowd than that acheivement. Its not just Einstein, theres Woody Allen, Beyonce, John Lennon, Isaac Newton.

I understand you call it temporary though, yes -all the above people had ups after their downs and then downs again, generally the pattern of everyones life.It even possible that like some of the above, Ricky acheived what he did BECAUSE of a depressive illness that simply wasnt diagnosed at an earlier stage.

Totally agree with the rest of your post. it rings entirely true -

In regards to money and position think it shows us that many people are driven not by their own heart but by others expectations or by their own ego which eventually fails to fill us too.

The richest of heart give back freely and grow way beyond their first aim.

on a lighter note, he seems to have piled on some pounds recently too -