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The distance between failure and success is minuscule

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  • Nadine

    And my question is "how to run a country without oil?".
    Indeed, I saw oil as the root cause of a lot of different processes and transformations affecting the world.

    I then started researching the issue, asking many questions to a lot of people, and when it reverted back to a solution, I met President Peres who asked me: "why would you do anything else, rather than solving this problem, as it is your mission in life?”. I was still at SAP, waiting to become its CEO, but this question triggered the final step, and I jumped into the unknown.
    Actually, from the minute I had found my question and the solution was in place, every single person on the way was a significant gravity centre that pushed me into making the right decision. From that moment on, there were no doubts, just growing conviction every day.

    So watching this chain of events, would you say it is all about randomness? why did the Question find you?
    Is everything happening just by chance? I can't tell you. I asked one day a great physicist about what happened in the universe before the Big Bang. He said “nothing”. I told him he sounded like the people who believe the earth stands on the back of an elephant, itself standing on a turtle, which also stands on another turtle and so on. He agreed that it was pretty much the same thing.
    When we try and explain those occurrences, we get too close to looking for a trend in randomness. And I am very careful not to get down that path. Otherwise it would mean I am someone special and I do not believe so. Had I not found that question and gone on that mission, the question would have found somebody else.

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