BRUME OGHEN

Christ follower| Data Scientist| Lifelong learner.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

When God instructs you to do anything it is for your own benefit and not his.

Heb 12:10...."For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness."

When he asks you to forgive then be in turn a blessing to those who may have cursed or dispitefulky used you, this is how the cycle of healing is complete.

Your emotional health is totally restored, sense of self worth and esteem. With this inner healing also comes outward prosperity.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Someone was asked why he had longevity in his industry while many other of his equally talented contemporaries had faded away.

His reply was "it is by God's grace and not because of anything I did right in myself."

This is how a religious mindset denies us the opportunity to learn.

Truth is, his longevity came as a result of certain wise choices he made.

What then he should have said was "Yes, I remain relevant till date because I made the right moves some of which I will share however it was God's grace that taught me these things without which I won't have known them and be still standing today"

By saying "it wasn't by any right thing I did but by God's grace" he made it appear it all happened because he was lucky implying others were not.

This puts his success in an inaccessible realm allowing for superstitious practices. God's grace teaches and gives us the right tools.

His success cannot now be trans-generational because he has "nothing" to teach others. If he had framed it right he would still have attributed it to God as the source of it all but then listed out things he was taught by Grace in the last 40years.

Cc @pastorpoju

[BRUME OGHEN @brumeoghen]

@JobFound5 Interested.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

We admire people who achieve things that “we think” we cannot, because either we have been told it is hard, or we tried a bit of it and found it difficult. We then give up and praise those whom we think are better than us. They may seem better because they have found a hack that others haven't discovered yet.

Nobody can be better than you at something when you consistently try to improve on previous attempts. That is what sets the high achievers apart from those who achieve less. It is something we must learn from within and turn into a habit. Excellence is a habit. Achieving excellence is not easy, but you can “hack yourself” into it.

I had a conversation with @bernard_parah yesterday over lunch, and he reminded me of the Y Combinator interview question: “Give an example of a time you hacked something.” It kept ringing in my head as I drove around Accra. I knew I hacked things daily, but I was trying to remember the first time I did it and turned it into a habit.

I thought it was at age 11 when I had to find a way to survive the long holiday and was broke, but I realized I could wash my neighbor’s poultry for 1 Naira 50kobo. That money became the capital I used to start a business selling canned tomatoes, and I made more money than other boys in the market by being better dressed and selling to people still in their cars by the road.

They were more affluent, and they would rather buy from a clean, polite, well-spoken, and well-dressed young boy than the rough hawkers who didn't care about their appearance. They also likely bought the premium brand then called “De Rica,” and I had found the main importer in the market of original De Rica tomatoes with embossed expiry dates.

I outsold all of the other hawkers and ended up getting canned Derica tomatoes on credit from the supplier because of my volumes. I was doing this during the holidays and did better than those who did it daily to survive. I did better because I figured out the market and hacked it.

The thing is that it wasn't the first time I hacked something. I went back into my memories and realized that the very first time was when I was 7 years old, when I hacked my time by doing tasks early and defeating procrastination. The key was to look beyond the tasks and not the tasks themselves.

If I had to read for exams, I looked forward to the holidays afterward and the club sandwich my parents gave me as a reward for being first in my class. I made sure I did well in those exams by preparing early and listening attentively in class. I hacked and organized myself at age 7.

My parents also gave me motivation. This is the same Jedi mind tricks I now also use on my kids. It is not blackmail, it is motivation. You can always hack yourself and any situation to achieve optimal outcomes.

I will have to turn this into a proper article and share it with my kids. That is part of the hacking process. I need to find out whether De Rica is publicly listed and buy their shares. They were the first luxury product that I sold.

[BRUME OGHEN @brumeoghen]

@MrCharlesky Interested.

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@thedigitor__ @Teti_568 Ok.

I sent it via Google drive.

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@thedigitor__ @Teti_568 I got it from a friend last year.
How do you want me to send it to you?

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@thedigitor__ @Teti_568 I have the e-copy

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[BRUME OGHEN @brumeoghen]

@deleosunmakinde Happy birthday sir!
God bless you for all you do.