Sunday Sasona

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[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@alfchye @GTgiftie No be so o! The more people in the bus, the more fuel he would have needed to move them around.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Hungarian psychologist raised three daughters to prove that any child could become a chess grandmaster through early specialization. He succeeded. Two of them became grandmasters. One became the greatest female chess player who ever lived.

Then a sports scientist looked at the data and found something nobody wanted to hear.

His name is David Epstein. The book is called "Range."

The Polgar experiment is one of the most famous case studies in the history of deliberate practice. Laszlo Polgar wrote a book before his daughters were even born arguing that geniuses are made, not born. He homeschooled all three girls in chess from age four. By their teens, Susan, Sofia, and Judit were dominating tournaments against grown men. Judit became the youngest grandmaster in history at the time, breaking Bobby Fischer's record. The story became the gospel of early specialization. Pick a domain young, drill it hard, and you can manufacture excellence.

Epstein opens his book by telling that story honestly and then quietly demolishing the conclusion most people drew from it.

Chess works that way. Most things do not.

Here is the distinction that took him four years of research to articulate, and that almost nobody who quotes the 10,000 hour rule has ever read.

There are two kinds of environments in which humans develop expertise. Psychologists call them kind and wicked. A kind environment has clear rules, immediate feedback, and patterns that repeat reliably. Chess is the cleanest example. Every game ends with a winner and a loser. Every move is recorded. The board never changes shape. The pieces never invent new ways to move. A child who plays ten thousand games will see most of the patterns that exist in the game, and pattern recognition is exactly what chess mastery is built on.

A wicked environment is the opposite. Feedback is delayed or misleading. Rules shift. The patterns that worked yesterday may be exactly the wrong patterns to apply tomorrow. Most of the real world looks like this. Medicine is wicked. Investing is wicked. Building a company is wicked. Scientific research is wicked. Almost every job that involves a complex changing system with humans in it is wicked.

The Polgar sisters trained in the kindest environment any human can train in. Their success was real and the method was correct. The mistake was generalizing the method to fields where the underlying structure of the environment is completely different.

Epstein's research is what made the implication impossible to ignore.

He looked at the careers of elite athletes outside of chess and golf and found that the pattern was almost the inverse of what people assumed. The athletes who reached the very top of their sports were overwhelmingly people who had played multiple sports as children, specialized late, and often switched disciplines well into their teens. Roger Federer played squash, badminton, basketball, handball, tennis, table tennis, and soccer before tennis became his focus. The kids who specialized in tennis at age six and trained year-round for a decade mostly burned out, got injured, or topped out at lower levels of the sport.

The same pattern showed up everywhere he looked outside of kind environments. Inventors with the most patents had worked in multiple unrelated fields before their breakthrough work. Comic book creators with the longest careers had drawn for the most different genres before settling. Scientists who won Nobel Prizes were dramatically more likely than their peers to be serious amateur musicians, painters, sculptors, or writers.

The skill that mattered in wicked environments was not depth in one pattern. It was the ability to recognize when a pattern from one domain applied unexpectedly in another. That kind of thinking cannot be built by drilling a single subject. It can only be built by accumulating mental models from many subjects and learning to move between them.

The deeper finding is the one that should change how you think about your own career.

Specialists in wicked environments often get worse with experience, not better. Epstein cites studies of doctors, financial analysts, intelligence officers, and forecasters showing that years of experience in a narrow domain frequently produce more confident judgments without producing more accurate ones. The expert builds elaborate mental models that feel comprehensive and turn out to be increasingly disconnected from the actual structure of the problem. They stop noticing what does not fit their framework. They mistake fluency for understanding.

Generalists do better in wicked domains for a reason that sounds almost mystical until you understand the mechanism. They have less invested in any single mental model, so they abandon broken models faster. They are used to being a beginner, so they are not threatened by the discomfort of not knowing. They have seen enough different domains that they can usually find an analogy from one field that unlocks a problem in another. The technical name for this is analogical thinking, and the research on it is one of the most underrated bodies of work in cognitive science.

The single most useful sentence in the entire book is the one Epstein puts almost as a throwaway.

Match quality matters more than head start.

A person who tries six different fields in their twenties and finds the one that genuinely fits them will outperform a person who picked one field at fourteen and stuck to it on willpower alone. The lost years were not lost. They were the search process that produced the match. Every field they walked away from taught them something they later imported into the field they finally chose.

The reason this is so hard to accept is cultural, not empirical. We tell children to pick a path early. We reward the prodigy who knew at six. We treat the late bloomer as someone who failed to launch on time, when the data suggests they were running an entirely different and often more effective optimization process underneath.

The Polgar sisters were not wrong. The conclusion the world drew from them was.

If your environment is genuinely kind, specialize early and drill hard. If it is wicked, and almost every interesting human problem is, then the people who win are the ones who refused to specialize until they had seen enough to know what was actually worth specializing in.

You are not behind. You were running the right experiment all along.

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@911hero_ @afrisagacity There was no point in the video where the guest said that equipment were not procured from the UAE. He only made allusion to fact that the cabal preferred procurement style cost the country more than the G2G format of procurement.

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[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

I found this article online and was wondering if it was actually published by @MobilePunch.

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@CitizenPeper @OgbeniDipo This is a most concerning angle to this whole scamming issue.

Does it then mean that victims have no hope of getting justice as the last hope (police) is almost hopeless? I pray not

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@BethU20 @Mimi_yakigar The tailor(s) who made these cannot make heaven! Wow!🤣🤣🤣

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

Nothing to add. Spot on!

[Kenny | Vessel of Value 💎 @KennyNwokoye]

This is why I'm never moved by people who beg for a living online.

You've probably seen the viral video of the guy who had been living on the streets of Victoria Island, Lagos.

Homeless. Hungry. Jobless.

He had been looking for work for a long time. Nothing was coming through.

That day, he walked into an event.

Not to beg anybody for money.

He just wanted to find food to eat. That's all.

But something happened.

An opportunity came for him to show his talent.

He climbed that stage in his scrawny-looking clothes... and he DELIVERED.

He wowed the entire room.

And guess who was sitting right there in the front row?

Tony Elumelu.

Mr Tony was so blown away that he stood up and sponsored him with ₦1,000,000 on the spot.

By the end of that day, this "homeless" guy had raised ₦2,000,000 in sponsorships.

Not from begging.
From BUILDING.

Some people would say it was luck.

But luck didn't put him in that room.

Luck didn't make him take the mic to show them what he could do.

And luck surely didn't make him take the mic the second time to share his amazing story.

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Now let me address the person I wrote this for.

You have a phone.

You have data.

You have internet access.

Yet your daily strategy is to enter people's DMs and beg for ₦5,000 and your downsell is "nothing is too small"?

You have time to send 50 messages a day asking strangers for money.

But you don't have time to learn and hone a skill?

You have energy to write long emotional stories and do consistent follow-up when people ignore you.

But that same energy cannot go into creating value?

2026 is closeby.

ChatGPT has a FREE version.
Canva has a FREE version.
YouTube has a FREE version.
CapCut has a FREE version.

People are building businesses and making millions with these tools.
But you... you want to beg.

I don't care why you do it.

That homeless guy on the streets of Lagos didn't come to that event to beg.

He BUILT the skills!

And when his moment came, he was READY.

What are YOU building? NOTHING.

That's why when you seek help and someone asks what you can do, you go mute.

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These are the kind of people I will ALWAYS support:

✅ People who like to build.

✅ People who always give more than they take.

✅ Addicted contributors to society.

✅ People who take responsibility for their actions and outcomes.

This is not me trying to be liked.

This is not me trying to be right.

This is a PILLAR of how I think.

I do not encourage IRRESPONSIBILITY.

If you're offended... Good.

Stop begging and start building.

~ V.O.V

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

He who has ears, let him hear.

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Cubana Chiefpriest giving Peller some real life gems 💭👏

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@d_gtbank_x You will be alright!

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@gtbank_help, what is the problem with refunding the 20,000 wrongly taken from my account since December 2024? I have reached out to you via several civil means but I have been ignored all the way.

Am I supposed to add some aggression to get result? It's your call.

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@Kelvin882 @Cousin1974 @mikeachimugu01 @KenyaAirways @flyairpeace @Wakanowdotcom Use this

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

If only this model can be adopted by the other ministers!

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@PrinceSomorin I am not sure that anyone who has anything to do with GTBank will be surprised. That bank is a shadow of what it once was.

@gtbank took 20k from my account in December for a transaction that never happened. They are yet to return the money to me despite mails and branch visit

[Sunday Sasona @SasonaSunday]

@arms_abams @Mazi_OJD @BenHundeyin 1. Mrs S E Omodara's judiciary stamp clearly identifies her as a magistrate.
2. The charge reference "MAG CRT/..." indicates that the case was taken to a magistrate court where the remand order was issued.

Or maybe you meant something different?

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Ouattara is France’s most loyal servant and devoted supporter in the region. This man will kill for France and will die for France.

He didn’t “ask” the French to leave. He owes his presidency to France and would have never seized power and maintained it without France’s military intervention in Côte d’Ivoire that led to the forceful removal of his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo by French troops in 2011.
Ouattara has been the most outspoken parrot of France defending its colonial practices and currency and even threatening his neighbors with war all for the sake of France. He lives, breathes and will die for France. Let’s not make this most loyal slave a “hero” and be careful of crafting the narrative through sensational titles. It is misleading and dangerous.

This is rather France’s decision to withdraw troops from its former colonies as announced by Macron. It is a strategic shift in its foreign policy; a calculated attempt to save face following the humiliating expulsions of its forces from the Sahel.

This withdrawal is far from a retreat. The French government had announced these plans months ago, collaborating closely with leaders like Ouattara to execute a more covert form of control.
By pivoting to non-military methods of dominance, France aims to maintain its leverage and influence while avoiding the visible backlash that military presence provoked.

This is not an exit like we have witnessed it in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso but rather a repositioning, abandoning a sinking ship before it fully capsizes, all while ensuring the strings of influence remain firmly in their hands.