Here's a conversation I had with a colleague some time ago : Me : If are walking along Orchard Road, an insurance agent and a snake approaches you. You have a gun with two bullets, what do you do ? Friend : I shoot the snake and the insurance agent. Me : Wrong, you should shoot the insurance agent twice, just to make sure he's dead. Friend : Actually, I disagree, if you're lucky the snake will bite the agent and kill him for you. So you save two bullets. Me : Nah, if the snake bites the agent, it will die a slow and horrible death from drinking poison from his blood. No innocent snake should suffer this fate. A lot of success literature is, in my humble opinion, written by hypocrites. Almost all popular books on success talk about giving and charity. There's enough bullshit on giving so that ......