IN THE SHOWTIME TELEVISION SERIES Billions, both Bobby Axelrod, the gazillionaire hedge fund manager modeled on Steven Cohen, and canny U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades, who is obsessively looking for clues to Axelrod's insider trading, are seen practicing meditation. Eyes softly closed, chests slowly rising and falling, the two alpha males take a few minutes of quiet time from their manic days of trying to outwit one another with intellect, deception, and brute force. A mindfulness practitioner might wince at the ideathat an unscrupulous hedge fund manager or a crime fighter battling more personal demons than public ones could exploit a centuries-old practice to ignite their creativity.
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