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Striving for More Is Your Only Option

Nour Boustani
7 min readJun 18, 2022

I was a big believer in the “less is more” movement, and the more we minimize and simplify our lives, the better our life will be; I was wrong; I misunderstood this concept entirely.

The concept of less is more maybe applies to productivity and a few other things, but not to money, life, and success.

High-intelligent and street-smart people realize early on that life offers two ways of living.

A simplified version of life it’s when people choose to live with the simplest form of energy, simple food, simple shelter, and simple needs; after all, life at its basic level is simple.

The Himalayan people adopted this type of life to its maximum; they chose not to take part in a complicated lifestyle and live happily with less. I admire them for that decision.

However, this type of living isn’t practical for people who live in New York, Shanghai, London, and other developed or developing global cities. It’s just not that simple.

For this group of people, they must enjoy life at its maximum or struggle or suffer.

Being prosperous will be your only option in a complex society; here is why

The modern economic system gives you no choice but…

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