When you are living for a cause greater than you, you will understand that money is just a tool like every other resource.
So don’t live all your life chasing money. Your soul is worth way more than that!🫵
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.
The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.
Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.
Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.
When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.
The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.
When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.
Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.
Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.
The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.
Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.
Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.
Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.
Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.
A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.
The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.
The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.
The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.
That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.
Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.
Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.
Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.
You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.
The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.
Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
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See ehh, young people will stay and listen if you present the true gospel to them, you don’t have to use entertainment to draw them.
The true gospel is enough! The Bible is enough!
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Please, do not listen to people that say N10m , N20m, N30m, N50m isn’t a lot of money and cannot change your life.
The fact that some of us have and are seen good money doesn’t remove the fact that those figures above are a lot of money.
If you earn N1m monthly in Nigeria, you’re among the top 5% earners. That makes N10m a lot of money for the vast majority.
Do not listen to dumb takes from people who sit on their brains day in, day out.
Being in finance has taught me a lot.
Walk with me
Let’s say N30m hits your account now for the very first time. The initial instinct will be to start buying everything you have written down before in your notepads.
-rent a new apartment
-furnish it to taste
-buy a car
-set momsi and popsy up a little or send them some money.
-Do a little cloth shopping, etc
Those are good too but before you get to the end of that list, the money would be done or you’ll be left with almost nothing.
This is what you can do:
Learn about the money market.
Throw in 20m and lock it for a year. Get your 16-20% upfront interest paid to you and keep your monthly income and standard of living as it was in less than 500k a month. YOU WILL NOT DIE.
This gives you a whole year to actually plan for how you will execute your 20m. Someone is saying, what about inflation? True. But there will still be a lot of things you can do with 20m after a year.
Meanwhile, you still have 10m with you.
Whatever gave you that 30m, use a part of that 10m to improve yourself in that skill. Use a part of that 10m to network in the field that gave you that 30m.
That money can change your life, I insist. And the fact that some of us have seen and held good money doesn’t make such figures less massive.
Selah