Mario Salamanca
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The Silent Trap of the 100th Coin
There is a timeless story by Jorge Bucay called The 99 Coins. It tells of a humble servant who one day discovers that his master owns a pouch with exactly 99 gold coins. The servant is puzzled. Why 99? Why not 100, which sounds complete, perfect, round?
From that moment on, something inside him shifts.
He stops sleeping the same.
He stops laughing the same.
His work suffers.
His entire life begins to revolve around getting that missing coin that, in his mind, will finally make everything “right.”
From that moment on, something inside him shifts.
He stops sleeping the same.
He stops laughing the same.
His work suffers.
His entire life begins to revolve around getting that missing coin that, in his mind, will finally make everything “right.”
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