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How to Rise High When Everyone Else is Falling Low

Nour Boustani
6 min readOct 11, 2022

Rising from below the ground to the peak of the highest mountains is what many people wish to achieve in life; however, many fail miserably to crawl the first small rocks, never mind reaching the highest skies.

Every sailor can confidently head in the right direction and reach land when the wind is in their favor, but that doesn’t mean they are great sailors. The ones who maneuver and survive the most brutal winds and reach the land safely while every other ship sinks deep in the ocean are the greatest sailors of all time.

Seven years ago, I was almost broke for making some stupid mistakes; One day, I was walking in a luxury mall near five stars restaurant with my ex-wife in the middle of Shanghai. I asked her to look at many people that don’t look wealthy yet spend heavily on expensive meals then I told her that five years later, these people would struggle financially, and we would strive.

She laughed and never understood my point until last year; she called me back and said that bad economy hits everyone, banks are asking for money back, and most people here are heading to hell. Oh dear, I knew that six years ago, remember?

If you study economics and the rise of emerging nations, you would know that there are spikes in the economy where people feel confident because of credit…

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Nour Boustani
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