“Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.” Especially as you get older. Learn a skill today.
Robert Greene
I don’t think personal development is spoken of enough. Especially if you’re in your 20s, you should invest aggressively in yourself. This isn’t an argument against investing early, it’s for smarter capital allocation.
If spending on a cert or degree, moving to a better place for your productivity, buying a better laptop, outsourcing chores (buying back your time!) or attending the right event can increase your earning potential, that may be a better investment than putting it in any fund or stock.
You need to be able to weigh and use your money to build the life that earns you more money. Do I invest, yes, but I also allocate aggressively on my development
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
It’s the clearest explanation of how the mind actually works. System 1 is fast, intuitive, emotional. System 2 is slow, deliberate, logical. All of it backed by decades of research on cognitive biases, overconfidence, and the ways we get decisions wrong.
Understanding these patterns makes you sharper at thinking clearly, spotting the traps, and making sounder choices in life, work, and everything else.
A book I’ll keep recommending. The insights are timeless and the evidence is solid.
Everybody is asleep so let me share a habit I have built in the last couple of months that is completely transforming my mind.
I watch content that is way out of my tax bracket 😊
If you're in your early 20s and already making money, start building positions in quality stocks on both the NGX 🇳🇬 and U.S. 🇺🇸 markets.
Your future self will thank you.
Buying gun skins on CODM might be fun, but if they don't generate income through tournaments, content creation, or competitions, they're an expense not an investment.
Buy assets first.
Buy liabilities later.
This is how you diversify
- Mutual Funds
- Dollar Funds
- NGX 🇳🇬
- US 🇺🇸 Equities
- Crypto ( $BTC or USDT savings)
- REITs
Now some of you have just NGX 🇳🇬 that’s why you’re panicking up and down.
Your career is your largest asset for most of your life.
A 10% raise, invested, compounds harder than almost any stock pick you will make in your twenties.
Spend at least as much energy becoming more valuable as you spend analysing markets. The earner funds everything else.
On this issue of the “Olodo Uprising”…
If you genuinely cannot see the problem here, then you might actually be part of it.
Because tell me what progressive society normalizes this level of illiteracy in the name of entertainment?
Let’s be honest for a second.
This is not about gatekeeping creativity or policing humor. It’s about standards.
Because this trend, whether we admit it or not, is a subtle insult to entertainers who have invested in refining themselves…
….people who have proven that you can be both engaging and intellectually sound.
Is Will Smith not an entertainer? Is Eddie Murphy not an entertainer?
Let’s even bring it home…
Was Mr Ibu (of blessed memory) not an entertainer? Is Sir. Nkem Owoh (Osuofia) not an entertainer? Is Layi Wasabi not an entertainer? Is Falz not an entertainer?
Now here’s the real question have you ever listened to these people speak off camera?
Are you impressed? Do you hear clarity? Intelligence? Depth? Or do you walk away questioning their literacy?
Exactly.
So what exactly are we defending here?
Entertainment should not be an excuse for intellectual laziness. It should be an avenue for expression that still respects growth, awareness, and refinement.
Let’s tell ourselves the truth abeg..this is not about creativity. It’s about what we are choosing to normalize.
And everything we normalize… eventually defines us.
The whole ycee conversation wasn't about Peller but about a systemic degradation of our education.
I would expect everyone arguing, dropping think pieces & setting camera to have picked up on that.
No surprise that the uprisen olodos are proving the point of olodo uprising.
The Holy Trinity of Financial Freedom:
1. The Richest Man in Babylon (Earning)
2. The Psychology of Money (Behavior)
3. The Simple Path to Wealth (Investing)
My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:
“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”
I fully support manifestation. I do. 🙏
But to explain to me how you can manifest a specific partner by writing down the vision, speak it into existence and then turn down every opportunity to actually meet people because the "vibe wasn't right." 😂
The universe can open the door. But my friend, you still have to walk through it.
Manifestation without works won't work. 😅