Have you heard the story of Stamatis Moraitis? He was a Greek immigrant who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at the age of 65. Doctors told him he had one year to live. Stamatis did die…36 years later at the age of 102. Marc Middleton shares what we can learn from his story.
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