The poor millionaire

In Arabic, we have a saying “extend your feet no longer than the length pf our bed”. This means that you should not spend more than you can afford. In other words, this says you should settle for what you have.

I say bullshit.

Humans are highly adaptive; this means we can settle for anything as long as we have enough to live. Look at Africa, Gaza, Cuba and others. They are all alive, but hardly by our western standards. That does not mean that we shall abide by the status quo. We should not just accept what we are.

I say we need to challenge ourselves. We must overextend ourselves. Only then can we achieve greatness and success.

Like the poor millionaire, we must believe that we are great in order to really become so.