“Knowledge is power.” “Haste makes waste.” “All that glitters is not gold.” These statements are all well-known proverbs: short sayings that give us a piece of advice or wisdom to help teach us a ...

At its centre, this proverb is about ownership of time. Not in a literal sense, but in a behavioural one. It suggests that the future doesn’t randomly reward people. It responds, instead, to what is ...