Anyway, itโs too early in the day to be getting rage-baited ๐
I'm calming myself down with pictures of my two goats in a professional setting and in a cultural setting.
A big reminder that being Igbo and being global are not mutually exclusive. Both can co-exist.
A wife went viral for admitting she and her husband are mediocre. Average looking, not funny, no friends, mentally ill. And she can't explain why their marriage feels like a fairytale.
A psychologist in Seattle solved this exact puzzle in the 1990s.
John Gottman wired an apartment near the University of Washington with cameras and brought in 130 newlywed couples to just live in it. He tracked something he called bids: the tiny reaches for attention partners make all day. "Look at that bird." "Listen to this." A sigh that wants acknowledging.
Six years later, 17 couples had divorced. When his team went back to the tapes, the still-married couples had turned toward those bids 86% of the time. The divorced couples had managed 33%.
That one behavior predicted the outcome better than anything else in the data. Looks never entered the model. Humor never entered the model. Intelligence, money, status, shared hobbies: none of it showed up.
Now reread her post. "I can spend every minute of every day with this dude and not really get tired of it. We can get in the car and just drive for hours and talk."
Two people driving nowhere for hours are exchanging hundreds of bids and catching nearly all of them.
She graded the marriage on every trait that predicts nothing, and missed that they're elite at the one behavior that predicts almost everything.
Today, Enugu Airport was at a standstill when Chimdiebube Onwubiko arrived home with his teacher. Everyone was there to welcome our hero.
This is the greatest educational reception in the South East.
Tomorrow, Imo State will be at a standstill. The government and all the people of Imo State are preparing a grand reception for Egejurum Onyedikachi and Don Anele Munachimso.
They have done the South East proud by becoming world champions in Mathematics.
The educational awakening in the South East has entered another dimension, and this is just the beginning.