Michael

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[Michael @MichaelUA_]

I'll be documenting my NYSC journey here because why not 🤷🏿‍♂️

I'm in the South-West (Ogun State Camp) for the first time, and alot of things here are new to me.

I'll be actively participating in everything , so I'm expecting to rack alot of stories 😂

Come along. It'll be fun

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@MaaziMBA @Hybrid_Ola You're not even following yourself

You're right, it means most of the women are cheating on their husbands.

Doesn't mean 'most' men sleep with married. Could be a small number of men doing that.

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

Beyond that, there's little to banter about in engineering.

All of us know how much we need each other cos engineering is a collective endeavour. One project can pull electrical, mechanical, civil so there's no "star player" syndrome and therefore nothing to banter about.

[Mmesoma Awele ☢️ @Awele_sofine]

One thing I've discovered about other professions is that they do not wear their professions as a badge or make it their personality.

A lot of these professions you mentioned hardly post anything about their professions. They're just on normal NGX.

The topic has been addressed before in this app and some people say and I quote, "I can't spend 5-10 years getting a degree and not make it my personality".

I'll go further to state that a lot of these professions have clocking in and out time, so their hours are not spent in that particular place as opposed to health professionals.

I'll go further to posit that in these other professions there's no hierarchy (unless of course by level attained by promotion).

I'll stop here. ✊

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@Awele_sofine Beyond that, there's little to banter about in engineering.

All of us know how much we need each other cos engineering is a collective endeavour. One project can pull electrical, mechanical, civil so there's no "star player" syndrome and therefore nothing to banter about.

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@__zuggy Like bro it's just €100M. I wonder what all the fuss is about

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

How to get lucky in life

1. Build skills that make you useful. Luck rarely sticks to people who cannot capitalize on it.

2. Say yes to invitations that stretch you, even when they feel inconvenient or uncomfortable.

3. Show up early, follow up often, and keep your name in rooms where decisions are made.

4. Treat every interaction like it matters, because luck often arrives disguised as a person.

Luck is not magic. It is simply your exposure multiplied by readiness.

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@olumuyiwaayo Do you have it in hardcover?

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

You can't ever create anything original / "from yourself" until you genuinely get over your fear of "being wrong" or "doing something incorrectly", by realizing those don't actually exist

To get over this you sort of have to peek at the foundation of your worldview. Your worldview might have a belief that says "there is a right way to do this thing, and a wrong way to do this thing" - and what determines right/wrong is what some 'authority' says OR what consensus seems to be. But you must realize both 'authority' and 'consensus' in the stylistic sense are FALSE/FAKE, and that belief will only make you look to what other people are doing (or ALLOWING) before you actually start anything or put anything out. In this worldview, your entire 1st step isn't asking "how do i get to my goal", it is INSTEAD figuring out "what am i allowed to do here or not allowed to do here" & your brain shifts from goal-orientation to social-orientation by looking for 'what's allowed here' instead of 'how the fuck do i achieve my goal'. But once you make that core foundational psychological switch, you're on your 1st step on your own legs. YOUR faculties/wisdom is now available to you.

If you stay stuck in that normie/default paradigm you are basically fucked, because you're only allowing yourself to operate in other people's rules/allowances. You fear rejection SO MUCH that you've basically buried yourself (and your true taste, style... and GENIUS) behind a huge wall of shoulds/shouldnt's, because you don't want any negative social feedback

The key to reclaiming yourself starts psychologically. it is disregarding their rules & asking yourself what YOU would do & what you don't think you need or what you think you do need. & then just sending it your way, knowing many will just view it as wrong, because they aren't you

But that feeling of maybe being wrong but you're not sure but it's all coming for you IS the magic pocket. THAT'S your sauce. that's your magic. That's your aura. That's your genius. And blasting it out FEELS uncertain. It FEELS "against the grain", and that's what makes it sexy as fuck.

because it's YOU.

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@michaelinioluwa All the best man

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

I realized today that most of us want to make money, but most people won’t really get it because they have no reference point. So they don’t really understand fully what it is they want. Of course I’d explain -

Wealth means different things to different people; and these meaning is usually influenced by our past & present experiences - so what we want is somewhat in between. If your parents never built a house, and you build a house - they would say you have achieved a whole lot

Yes you have (building a house is not easy in this economy): but based off their reference point they’d wonder why you still work hard and what else you want out of life. This is the point where they say - “relax, you have achieved more than most people”

This is caused by reference points; you on the other hand have seen richer people - so you tell them: “no mummy, I still need to push”

You feel my drift?

The higher your reference point the bigger your appetite, the bigger your appetite the big the opportunity you’d chase

This is why you go on to make 10x what your parents made.
Now here is where the problem is - your reference point too is small when compared to another person’s reference point.

This morning I got a terrible hit to my reference point after I went through Temi Otedola’s tiktok: @temiotedola

I watched her life, compared it to where I am now and felt completely far behind. There is a life so full of ease and luxury it is absolutely mind blowing. And I don’t have it now, and I want it.

…and I saw how different my life is when compared with what she has.

Then I imagined what her reference point would be and shuddered. Mr Eazi is a hard working guy, great guy - but he left music and became part owner of a billion dollar business after he started hanging with the Otedola kids. My guess is his reference point changed.

Reference point controls the kind of business you do, the level of wealth you chase and ultimately the level of wealth you get. I just realized that a few hours ago, and it has sent cold shivers down my spine.

I was recently watching a series called: “House of Usher” -

It is a horror story about a billionaire. When any of his kids comes of age they would come to pitch a business to him and if he likes it he funds it.

His last son comes to him and pitches a night club: his idea is grand but the man waves it off.

Then said (I will paraphrase) - “an Usher builds something that changes the world, not a business that marks up Glenfiddich” -

It is a movie but it just hit me; most of the times the reference point we have is so small all we do is buy and sell.

Then others with a bigger point of reference build Paystack…Flutterwave…MoniePoint…Piggyvest…Andela.

It is insane.

A big real estate tycoon once advised me to move to Lekki Phase 1. He said that was what he did that made him rich. Waking up and seeing rich people…

…and seeing them do rich people things; it somehow stops you from playing too small. Now I fully get it; it increases your point of reference.

If you stay around people where the biggest achievement is a nice car and a nice house that would be all you would ever want.

Point of reference is something else and boy! Teni Otedola’s tiktok is a whole lot of point of reference - in one video she did a walk through of her father’s house and it made it clear to me what I want when I fantasize about being rich.

When you have not been near real wealth before, you know you want it but somehow you still don’t know what it is you want. Until you see it on a tiktok account like I did today and you know - clearly - what it is you want, and how frigging beautiful it is.

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@a_chiagoziem Ohhh I get now

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@kayahfootiesss You were staying with parents no?

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@a_chiagoziem Thanks AC

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

First of many.

Because I'm going on a mad run of applying to the places I want and I know many will not want be back... yet.

[Michael @MichaelUA_]

I'm just getting started

[Temitayo 🧘🏾‍♂️🪔🧘🏾‍♂️ @tehmie_]

May dump but regret mail only:

Let’s have it 🫠🫠

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

The reason you don't trust yourself is because you played other people's games, and were 'wrong' by their rules

The way you re-claim this internal alignment/agreement is by choosing to play your own game. Doing it your own way. And therefore, choosing your own stylistic rules & what you deem as success/failure.

Once you align with your own lane, is easy to keep promises to yourself because it's what you actually want. It actually has meaning to you. It's important to YOU, and it can be done how you see is best

Not trusting yourself is an old gaslight problem. Re-claim your psyche & it once again becomes natural

[Day @Daywrotethis]

If you don’t take a chance every Day

Throw your hand

let the die fly

How can you ever know if today is your lucky Day

[Samuel Adeyemo @Jomo_Of_FUTA]

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[Michael @MichaelUA_]

Football is love ❤

[Manchester City @ManCity]

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[Michael @MichaelUA_]

@NuesDaily @a_chiagoziem Obi is an unimpressive presidential candidate???

Okay👌