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That sentence can make people uncomfortable. It triggers ideas of greed, selfishness, and excess. The truth is almost the opposite. Accumulating wealth isn’t about hoarding money. It’s about building capacity — capacity to help, to create, to protect, and to contribute. When you don’t have resources, even your best intentions stay trapped inside your head. The best thing you can do for the world is to put yourself in a position to help.

Every human being has passion. We are born with it — curiosity, hunger, longing, and the desire to express, build, explore, belong, and matter. Passion shows up as excitement, frustration, and the restless feeling that there is more inside you than what your current life allows. But passion alone does not build civilizations. Passion alone does not reshape lives. Passion alone does not create results. Ambition does.

Most people don’t fail because they lack talent. They fail because they never decide what they stand for. They drift. They dilute. They follow trends instead of principles. And in the end, they become what they feared most: average.