Often a lonely journey. Then you gotta deal with the people who say "What is he doing that for"? "What's wrong with him"? and dozens of other critical comments.
Once I bought a piece of real estate, against my lawyers advice, he made me sign a paper saying he advised me against doing the transaction. In other words, he was worried about being sued by me because I do dumb things. Long story short, that was 25 years ago, quite risky but worked out quite well.
