akudo_🥊

BIM Developer | VDC Architect

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

Well, my aim here is to enlighten every AEC professional — especially African ones — on the tools, systems, and thinking that separate projects that succeed from those that don't.

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

Do you know why Think and Grow Rich has inspired so many entrepreneurs?

The strange thing is that it contains almost no practical blueprint for starting a business. It does not teach you how to find customers, build a product, raise capital or manage cash flow.

Yet countless successful business owners credit it as one of the books that changed their lives.

Why?

My theory is that the book changes identity.

It convinces ordinary people that building extraordinary things is within their reach. Once someone genuinely believes that, they begin to take risks they would otherwise avoid and notice opportunities they would previously have ignored.

Belief changes behaviour, and then behaviour changes outcomes.

Now look at this photograph.

Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the child's family won a UNICEF charity raffle during a Barcelona photoshoot.

That baby was Lamine Yamal.

Objectively, the photograph is nothing more than an extraordinary coincidence.

But imagine growing up with that picture. It would be difficult not to feel that your story was somehow different; and that perhaps you were destined for something remarkable.

Whether or not destiny exists is beside the point.

The belief itself can become a powerful force.

There is even an experiment to prove this:

In 1968, researchers Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson carried out what became known as the Pygmalion Effect.

They administered IQ tests to pupils at an elementary school and then randomly selected around 20 per cent of them. The teachers were told that these children were "intellectual bloomers" who were expected to make exceptional academic progress during the year.

But it was just a trick; the pupils had been chosen entirely at random. There was nothing exceptional about them.

Yet, by the end of the year, many of these pupils started doing better than their classmates.

The researchers argued that the teachers' expectations subtly changed how they treated those children; offering more encouragement, more patience and more opportunities: which helped improve their performance.

Expectations changed behaviour.

Behaviour changed results.

Maybe the same principle explains why Think and Grow Rich has had such a profound impact on so many people.

And maybe it also explains why a random photograph of Messi holding a baby can make the child grow to become a star.

Sometimes a coincidence becomes part of someone's identity, and the stories we believe about ourselves often influence the lives we go on to build.

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@Mrczar_ This is a powerful write up

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@onu_slim Omo, Slim you smart gaaan

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Never reward inconsistency with continued access. If someone shows up when it benefits them and disappears when it doesn’t, do not compensate with understanding. You don’t correct unreliable behavior with patience. You correct it by making access conditional.

[Neto @docneto]

Increase your surface area for luck by starting more conversations, meeting more people and just going outside more. Nothing big happens on your bed, get up and move!

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

You don't need to know exactly where you'll end up. You just need to keep becoming more capable. Capability creates options, options create opportunities, and opportunities create futures that were invisible when you started.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

The brain does not hate hard work. It hates unclear effort. If it cannot see where the work is going, how long it will last, or why it matters, it starts treating the task like failure instead of a challenge.

[HONITEL👑 @HonitelHQ]

1. Once you touch some money, cook in bulk, and buy data, groceries, and foodstuff in bulk. During rainy days, you’ll be grateful you did. It will cost you more upfront, but it will save you even more later.

2. Do not impregnate any woman.

3. When God blesses your pocket, don’t be quick to inflate your lifestyle. Still stay in your neighborhood, eat at the same restaurants, use the same gym, etc., until you’re sure you can sustain a new lifestyle.

4. Don’t date if you’re not ready to settle down yet, especially as a guy. There’s no single advantage to being a boyfriend. It is a financial mistake.

5. Using your entire savings to buy a car, phone, or anything that isn’t going to make you more money is a financial mistake. Don’t do it.

6. Other people’s emergencies are not yours. Learn how to tell people no if it’s going to hurt your pocket, especially people who wouldn’t do the same for you.

7. Buy quality clothes, shoes, wigs, and watches when you can afford them. This saves you money because of their durability and longevity.

8. You don’t need 10 skincare products. You don’t need five workout supplements. You definitely don’t need 25 bottles of perfume. Consumerism is a huge financial mistake.

9. Don’t ever use shame to chest billing. If you attend to every touching story, soon enough, it’ll be your own story that is touching.

10. Before you make a purchase, sleep on it. If you wake up the next day, your mind is still made up, and you still feel like you need it, go through with it.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Mark Manson on how to win at life:

1. Commit to doing a hard thing.
2. Do the hard thing.
3. Feel good about doing the hard thing.
4. Become someone who enjoys doing hard things.

[M. O., What A Guy! @Obeyamark]

May our sons be boys!

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Persistence is the trait that keeps a person in contact with reality long enough for reality to yield.

Talent sees faster. Genius sees deeper. Education gives tools. Persistence keeps showing up after boredom, delay, humiliation, rejection, exhaustion, and lack of applause have removed everyone else.

Most people are not defeated by inability.

They are defeated by emotional weather.

They quit when the reward is not immediate. They quit when the first version fails. They quit when the world does not recognize them fast enough. They quit when their identity cannot tolerate being bad at something. They quit when the work becomes repetitive instead of inspiring.

Persistence wins because compounding is invisible at first. For a long time, nothing looks like it is happening. Then suddenly the person who kept working has skill, judgment, network, proof, scars, taste, and momentum that the talented quitter cannot fake.

But the key precision is this: persistence has to be married to feedback.

Repeating a broken pattern forever is not strength. That is ego trapped in motion. Real persistence means being immovable on the mission and ruthless about changing the method. The weak person changes the goal every time it gets hard. The stupid person keeps using the same failing method because changing it feels like admitting defeat. The dangerous person keeps the aim and evolves the path.

That is the trait that actually wins.

Persistence is not glamorous because it humiliates the ego. It asks for days where nobody claps. It asks for work when the signal is faint. It asks for correction when the first model is wrong. It asks for endurance through the boring middle where most people quietly vanish.

Talent is common because talent is given.

Education is common because education is purchased.

Genius is rarer, but still often wasted.

Persistent, adaptive, reality-facing determination is rare because it has to be chosen again and again when the emotional reward is gone.

That is why it beats almost everything.

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@amovingmanx @khanofkhans11_ And with which scale do you measure aesthetics or beauty?

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@Mallory71148207 @ethrealuniq A lot of people don't see it this way. Life is all about figuring it out as you go.

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@_agneeess @Wizebaba FCMB uses the exact emoji of a bank in your keypad

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@tayo_twits Rugby

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

First time I came across your post, it took a hard time trying to pronounce your profile name. Ever since then your wirte ups have become part of my religion

[conduct|r @conductr_]

major cheat code for building wealth: develop knowledge so specific that no one can replace you, then pair it with leverage that works while you sleep.

it starts from the thing you genuinely obsess over, something the market can't just train someone else to copy. you build from there into content or code that compounds over time with zero marginal cost. one correct decision, multiplied into everything by leverage.

the goal isn't to work harder. it's to build something that multiplies.

[conduct|r @conductr_]

major cheat code for building wealth: develop knowledge so specific that no one can replace you, then pair it with leverage that works while you sleep.

it starts from the thing you genuinely obsess over, something the market can't just train someone else to copy. you build from there into content or code that compounds over time with zero marginal cost. one correct decision, multiplied into everything by leverage.

the goal isn't to work harder. it's to build something that multiplies.

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@davidolabells @ThaBoyYom 😂

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

if you want money to keep moving from other people’s pockets into yours, legally of course, pay attention;

you need to understand one thing

money behaves like a current. it never stops moving, that is why it’s called currency. right now, millions of transactions are happening around you. money is in your city, you’re just not plugged into its flow yet

so what keeps money moving? value. without value, money is stagnant.

value is simply doing for people what they can’t or won’t do for themselves. the moment you provide that, money responds. i call it converting motive to cash. everyone you see moving around is driven by a motive and every motive can be monetized. you want to travel, that’s a motive. transport converts it to cash. fuel converts it to cash. you buy food before the trip, another conversion. you get a gift for someone, another one.

motive is everywhere and the real leverage is thst motives can be created. people didn’t always crave soft drinks, someone made them feel like they needed it and now it’s part of everyday life. so the question is simple...

what motive around you can you convert to cash? think again.

[akudo_🥊 @BlackPacho]

@demons2662 No debate, the demons group will always win. Even if they can't battle you outright, they will definitely wear you out.
Imagine Akaza fighting, headless, Tanjiro and Giyu had already reach their limits as humans and as hashiras, meanwhile Akaza was just getting started