> What if Isaac Newton gave up on the light bulb?<p>What a nightmare! We could have had to wait centuries for somebody in the colonies to invent the thing, losing so much intellectual momentum that people would end up reading instructions on how to think like a billionaire written by somebody who is, quite obviously, not a billionaire.
Thinking like a billionaire is easy. Getting your hands on a billion dollars is probably the tricky part. If for no other reason than a billion dollars weighs a lot and takes up a lot of space. It also probably hurts if you try to dive into it like Scrooge McDuck.
I would be disappointed to think like a billionaire and then realize that I don't have enough money to buy basic things, sad. So better to think about the things you can pay for and enjoy with.