#308: Always hungry means never enough

Have you heard the one about me being charged by a lioness? Oh, you have.

Well, a funny thing happened when I told that story again recently. I suddenly remembered how quickly fear disappeared once the lions had feasted.

You see, animals are only nervous when lions are hungry because lions only hunt when they are hungry. Only man is always hungry.

So let’s be honest with ourselves. It is this always-hungry that has landed us in this mess. This always-hungry has led to companies over-reaching and people over-spending.

Andy Grove (of Intel) made the point that only the paranoid survive. Well, I have seen the king of the jungle snooze in the African sun and I can tell you that lions are simply not prone to paranoia. They eat when they’re hungry and sleep when they’re not.

They’re at the top of their food chain and yet they know when enough is enough.


I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com

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