M. P. Ireol

Systems. Psychology. Civilization.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

What modern habit do you think future generations will find disturbing?

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

Teach me to find peace in loss.

Peace in rejection.

Peace in uncertainty.

Peace in the middle of the fire.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

NEED ENGINEERING

Today, all four papers in my Need Engineering research series are publicly available through SSRN.

The series introduces and develops Need Engineering—a proposed field dedicated to understanding how human needs are formed, activated, influenced, sustained, and transformed into behavior.

Published Papers:

• Part A — Toward a Unified Framework of Need Formation, Activation, and Engineered Dependency

• Part B — The Practitioner's Guide

• Part C — The Ethics of Engineered Need

• Part D — Cultural Context and Global Application

Need Engineering draws from psychology, economics, behavioral science, marketing, sociology, systems thinking, and human development to address a fundamental question:

What drives human behavior?

My conclusion is that behavior is not primarily driven by products, information, technology, or opportunity.

Behavior is driven by need.

Understanding the architecture of need may help us better understand markets, institutions, culture, innovation, persuasion, addiction, loyalty, leadership, and human decision-making itself.

This publication marks the beginning of a much larger body of work.

— Martins Paul

Founder of Need Engineering

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

The day you realize the person you’re afraid of offending is insignificant among 8 billion humans, you stop performing and start living.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

I have a suspicion.

Many humans are not searching for healing.

They are searching for an audience.

They have mistaken sadness for depth and depression for personality.

Every post sounds like a cry from a tortured philosopher when in reality it is often little more than a performance designed to attract sympathy.

The irony is that while they romanticize suffering, there are humans carrying real pain in silence.

Real pain rarely needs an audience.

Performance does.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

I think I’ve said this before.

I don’t want to be excessively wealthy.

I don’t want ten cars.

I don’t want a garage that looks like a dealership.

I don’t want houses scattered across cities simply because I can afford them.

I don’t want so much money that I begin inventing ways to spend it.

I want a quiet life.

A slow life.

A life with enough room to think.

Enough room to read.

Enough room to build things that matter.

If fifty million dollars is more money than I can meaningfully use, then I don’t want fifty million dollars.

I want my needs met.

I want my wants measured.

I want enough.

Just enough that money stops being a problem without becoming my personality.

Maybe that’s strange.

But when I look around, I don’t envy excess.

I don’t envy the endless pursuit of more.

I don’t envy the burden of maintaining things I don’t need.

What I envy is simplicity.

The ability to wake up without needing to impress anybody.

The ability to enjoy a meal without turning it into content.

The ability to own things without being owned by them.

The older I get, the less interested I become in abundance.

And the more interested I become in enough.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

The voice in your head doesn’t speak in another accent

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

The ballot paper gives the appearance of freedom. Whether it actually provides freedom is a different question

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

Think carefully about this.

A democracy is supposed to function like this:

Ideas compete.

Parties compete.

Citizens choose.

African politics evolved differently.

Instead:

Patrons compete.

Networks compete.

Clients align.

Citizens observe.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

You are asking the wrong questions Africa!

ASK FOR SYSTEMS, AFRICA!

Stop fighting the RAIN!

Go after the RAIN MAKERS

Find he that beats the Drum, Only then will you have ANSWERS.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

A society that debates whether a snake swallowed money may never reach the deeper question:

What kind of institution allows public money to disappear without transparent accountability?

Where are the records?
Who signed off?
What audit trail exists?
Who is legally responsible?

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

Ask for systems, Africa.

Your religion will not audit public accounts.

Your fasting will not stop embezzlement.

Your tongues will not secure national borders.

Your all-night vigils will not replace intelligence gathering.

Your prayer meetings will not investigate financial crimes.

Your declarations will not build roads.

Your prophecies will not create institutions.

These things require systems.

They require discipline.

They require competence.

They require accountability.

They require people willing to build what they constantly pray for.

Somewhere along the line, we began expecting spiritual tools to perform civic responsibilities.

And now we wonder why our problems persist.

A corrupt politician is not defeated by prayer alone.

He is defeated by transparency, law, accountability, enforcement, and citizens who refuse to normalize corruption.

A kidnapper is not stopped merely by declarations.

He is stopped by intelligence networks, security infrastructure, functioning institutions, and consequences.

God may inspire men.

But men must still build.

God may provide wisdom.

But wisdom must still be applied.

God may answer prayers.

But nations are still governed by systems.

And perhaps one of the most dangerous ideas ever sold to Africa is that spirituality can substitute responsibility.

It cannot.

A society that neglects systems while multiplying prayers may find itself praying continuously about problems it never learned to solve.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

Nigeria is obsessed with messiahs.

Every election cycle, every crisis, every disappointment, we begin searching for another savior or we drag the ones we think should save us.

But revolutions are not built by messiahs.

They are built by people.

The day Nigerians are truly ready for change, the leader they admire will not have to drag them into the streets.

He will find them already there.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

You didn't invent the language you think in.

How much of your personality is yours?
How much of what you know is yours?.

Are you not just conditioned to believe and think what you think?

Are you really a feminist? A misogynist? A misandrist?

What convinced you? Why do you think you're right?

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

Y'all really need to think. What exactly does RCCG and it's people have to do with Terrorist, Kidnappers and the likes. Go to your government! Ask them to take responsibility, are you suddenly forgetting that there is something called Impeachment? And the national house of assembly can make it happen?

Leave them alone!

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

It is interesting how you think, but at the end of the day.

The crimes commited against humanity in Nigeria are not organized by the church, their leaders or their extremists. The crimes are surprisingly organized by a certain religious sect, whose extremist are seen as stronger believers and matyrs.

It is glaringly shocking to see how insultive you are over an opinion aired online. If I didn't know better, l'd call you a subtle terrorist.

In their very core, they are against the church and it's people because of their opinions. You are doing the same thing.

Walk in their steps.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

I think healthy societies separate wisdom from executive power.

Experience should remain influential long after leadership changes.

Elders can preserve institutional memory, provide guidance and challenge mistakes without necessarily controlling the machinery of government.

Wisdom should accumulate.

Power should circulate.

[RCCG PUBLIC RELATIONS @RCCG_PR]

The lies have gone on long enough. It stops now!!!

For far too long, Pastor E.A. Adeboye and The Redeemed Christian Church of God have been subjected to false narratives, deliberate misrepresentations, and misleading commentaries driven by personal interests and agenda setting.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

Have you ever considered directing this insults to Imam Clerics? And Sheiks?

I'm just wondering, we can clearly see that their religious extremist are the ones causing this menace? Have you heard of Christian Terrorist?

How exactly does the church and their pastors come into all of this?

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

@NC_Okonkwo @rccghq I found this too. And I think you need to hold your own leaders accountable. Leave Men Of God and their churches. They are to God and their service is to God.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

@NC_Okonkwo @rccghq This protest was in 2020. This happened in Buhari Regime. And the pastor in question was instructed by the PFN to lead the protest