By Sudanese-born prolific author Amr Muneer Dahab

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In “Wisdom Highway,” translated into English from the Arabic origin by the author himself, Sudanese-born poet and essayist Amr Muneer Dahab questions ideas that people accept as standard rules for living, aiming to make individual life paths easier to navigate rather than providing rigid success formulas. He uses short, witty statements to prompt deep thought ins. In this series of posts, the prolific author shares excerpts from the book.

Week 9: Who Is the Problem Solver?

• The problem solver does not tell you what to do. He rather shows you how to do it.

• Philosopher: Someone who likes to complicate things in order to understand them clearly.

• The housewife: The only working woman who does not irritate men.

• Although its meanings are endless, our minds go to one meaning when the word is mentioned alone: love.

• Love is blind; it sees after marriage.

• The bag: A closed space that holds your dispersed things, giving you a sense of collecting your psychological scattering.

• Wisdom: A sharp intensification of the experiences of others will hardly affect you if you have not gone through the same experiences.

• Anxiety: A seditious imagination that tempts you to stay up late, and you come out of it early morning empty-handed.

• Messy person: Someone who always believes that his belongings are in the right places.

• A loyal wife: A woman who does not count for her husband the names of her former fiancés.

• The pit is that thing the more you take from it, the more it gets bigger. Time is that thing the more it increases in your age, the more it takes away from it.

• Days: Those similarities that our eyes fill them with differences.

• The lawyer: You only have a working relationship with him, but he is constantly looking for a justification for your faults.

• It is good to avoid feelings of hatred, but if they are necessary, be careful to direct them toward the deserving.

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Amr Muneer Dahab is a Sudanese-born passionate essayist, literary critic and poet. An electrical engineer living in the United Arab Emirates, he juggles his professional career and writing, which has birthed so far 50 books.