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Married. Story teller. Free thinker. Sapiosexual.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@UnkleAyo Stay safe on your riding

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@sochii_ma @IgboHistoFacts Exactly

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

If you're demonstrably intelligent and sharp. No Godfather is going to support you into becoming a governor in your state.

That role is reserved for half witted, quarter to imbecile people who can know they can easily manipulate.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@enyinna_ Exactly how I think too

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

A while ago, a young Nigerian who works at a store near a place I often stroll to sit struck up a conversation with me. At some point, I mentioned the pressing need for me to earn as much as I could over the next few months. His response amused me.

He said that, of all the young Nigerians he knew, I was one of the few people he did not think was ready to make money. So, I asked why.

At first, he struggled to explain it. Later, he told me that he had been observing me. He often saw me arrive at roughly the same time of day, sit in the same spot, sometimes with a notebook, other times with my phone, and remain there for an hour or more. He said, nobody serious about making money would sit down for that long. They would be moving around, looking for something to do.

I like the guy. But what interested me was the mentality behind his conclusion. One thing I have noticed among many Nigerians is a tendency to confuse motion with progress. If people cannot visibly see you exerting yourself, rushing around, reacting, struggling, or performing urgency, they assume nothing productive is happening. But a person can spend two hours running around in circles and achieve less than someone who spends thirty minutes carefully deciding where to direct his effort.

In reality, many of those occasions when he saw me sitting there, I was reviewing documents, responding to emails, editing work, reading, planning, and organizing my next steps. I simply preferred doing it in an open space rather than staring at the same corner of a room all day. Because the work was not visibly strenuous, it was interpreted as laziness.

I have encountered this mentality in other contexts too. When problems arise, my instinct is usually not to react immediately. I sit and think. Sometimes for a few minutes. Sometimes longer. This has irritated many people.

People often become frustrated because I am not as visibly upset as they are. I am not demonstrably angry. I do not immediately spring into action. To them, my calmness can look like disinterest.

Yet I have repeatedly watched people react first, rush into action, exhaust themselves, and eventually arrive at the very conclusions I arrived at after taking a few extra moments to deliberate. Simply because I was willing to pause long enough to consider possibilities they had not yet considered.

The same mentality appears in how we think about ambition. Some people seem to believe that if you are truly focused on success, you must always look serious. You cannot stop to greet people, laugh, enjoy yourself, think quietly, or take stock of your situation. You must constantly appear busy.

I have never accepted that view. The ability to zoom out, evaluate your actions, learn from mistakes, identify patterns, and adjust your approach is not the opposite of ambition. It is often the very thing that makes ambition effective.

Worthy goals are achieved through a combination of thought and action; knowing when to push, when to pause; when to observe, when to engage.

I am deeply suspicious and often disconcerted by any culture that treats quiet deliberation as laziness and superficial activity as virtuous. Movement is not always progress. Sometimes the most reasonable thing a person can do is sit still and quietly alone and by themselves.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@AbdulTukur1 @AskMichaelTaiwo You dey whine poverty. Them no Sabi the value of anything

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@FineboyDangbana @CocoAfrica69 Fb

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@FineboyDangbana @CocoAfrica69 Sure guy

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

I helped my uncle change him own last month. 950k.

[IKENNA @kena_ewuru]

You see why I always use uber to go out whenever it rains?

Eko 1 - 0 Kena 😩

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@andrefreshoffi1 @taiwo_junzi Una dey see Beyonce less oo.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@Ol0ye @Prinx_will @3Star_GOD Better lol

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@Wizarab10 A simple gesture, but it left a great impression.
Very cool, humble, and approachable guy. Respect.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

I had an unexpected encounter with @Wizarab10 at the airport today. I had just finished seeing my wife and her family off and was on my way out when I walked past him. He noticed that I recognized him and turned back to shake my hand.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

They litter like animals and behave like idiots, but they are very religious. Filling up the whole space with churches instead of something that would benefit their communities. So what's the purpose of those religious places if the whole country is filled with dishonest people?

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

A country filled with so much low quality humans

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

No matter what you do in this life, never let your kids go through this Nigerian system. Nothing works. You can't even get the basics. The people living in it are so dishonest. It's such a terrible place. If there is a purgatory, I strongly believe it's Nigeria

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

Insane

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

This is sorcery. My brain can’t even focus on two things at once.

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

This is sorcery. My brain can’t even focus on two things at once.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

The son will carry this with him for the rest of his life and he will never forget this moment.

[name can't be blank @XlChyno]

@Taiwo_junzi Happy birthday to you, and congratulations