11 November 2017 - failure equals success

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is pursuing a mix of seemingly valuable reforms and absurd super-projects that are obviously destined to fail, like the proposed $500,000,000,000 city NEOM that will reach into three countries. I think I understand his psychology. He believes that failure and success are equal: “If I fail big enough, my success will be just as big.” And why not? It worked for Donald Trump.