The solution to poverty is never charitable donations. It has always been education, self-discipline, mentroship, ability to recognise opportunities etc. Hand-outs help people when they are in temporal need of an emergency safety net. Poverty however is a different game.
4years ago, I resigned from a customer care job with one of the telcos. They were paying 70k monthly (bonus inclusive) plus other side attractions like free transportation, 15k airtime and 1.5gb free data.
Same time, Ken - a team mate turned friend also got an offer...
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Commitment is all you need.
Writing publicly is deliberate practice for the mind.
- immediate feedback
- audience acts as a coach
- potential for criticism forces you to pay attention to the details
These forces naturally encourage you to improve. All you need is the courage to keep showing up.
In this article, I dived a bit into what I believe to be a root cause of rent and housing access
One one side is the valid need to develop the city, on another is a clear misunderstanding on who the city is being developed for.
Kindly read and share
https://t.co/H2dGqjT5FK
The quality of our thinking should influence the books we read.
If we learn how to think properly, we'll realize that a lot of books we've wanted to read is trash.
We finally pick the right booms and read them, they help inform our thinking further.
Cycle repeats.