In a race between a lion and a deer, the deer often survives.
The lion runs for a meal. The deer runs for its life.
The difference isn't speed only. It is purpose too.
We all work hard. But we don't all fight equally hard.
When the stakes are high enough, people discover strength they never knew they had.
That is why purpose outlasts motivation.
Motivation fades with difficulty. Purpose grows stronger because of it.
A strong 'why' doesn't make the journey easier. It makes quitting harder.
#mindset
The wait is over.
We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.
We are the best in the world!
Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.
People will constantly attack you in life.
One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential.
They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.
Arnold Schwarzenegger dijo algo que incomoda a mucha gente:
No basta con ser bueno.
Tampoco basta con trabajar duro.
Puedes tener más talento que todos los que te rodean.
Puedes crear algo mejor.
Puedes tener mejores ideas.
Pero si nadie sabe que existes, alguien peor que tú terminará llevándose la oportunidad.
La mayoría de las personas no fracasa porque le falte capacidad.
Fracasa porque espera que el mundo la descubra por accidente.
Y el mundo casi nunca funciona así.
What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
Take any population on earth.
For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.
Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.
Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.
Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.
When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.
Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.
Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.
Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.
Put the results on a map.
Call the map a "nature documentary."
Tell yourself the scores show something biological.
Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.
Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.
You did not follow the evidence.
You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.
And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.
This thing of pursuing careers because it’s “easy to secure a job” is the reason why we are receiving such poor service. It’s disgusting guys. If you know you have no empathy or a sense of urgency, please stay away from health care related courses!
Doctors are not meant to work in a system where every order is obeyed blindly.
Even military hospitals don't operate that way.
Pharmacists are supposed to question unsafe prescriptions.
Laboratory professionals are supposed to reject inappropriate, duplicate, or poorly indicated tests.
Nurses are supposed to speak up when something looks wrong.
That is patient safety.
But there is a difference between a clinical challenge made in good faith and a culture of casual disrespect & ego battles.
The first protects patients.
The second poisons teamwork.
A serious health system needs both.
The humility for orders to be questioned when necessary, and the professionalism for that questioning to be done respectfully, with clinical reasoning, and in the patient’s interest.
The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.
Here is the complete architecture of how you keep a poor country poor while convincing its educated class that this is their own fault:
Step one: During colonialism, extract capital, destroy domestic industry, structure the economy around export of raw materials.
Step two: Grant formal independence while maintaining the economic structure, the debt obligations, the currency arrangements, and the trade relationships established under colonialism.
Step three: When the economy underperforms, as it must, being structurally designed for extraction, not development, offer loans conditional on policies that deepen the existing structure.
Step four: Train the country's economists in Western universities where the theories taught do not acknowledge steps one through three as economically relevant.
Step five: Staff international institutions and domestic finance ministries with these economists.
Step six: When the policies fail, attribute failure to cultural factors, corruption, and weak institutions.
Step seven: Publish a report with recommendations.
Step eight: Return to step three.
The machine runs on its own now.
The colonial administrator retired.
The indebted finance minister presenting his structural adjustment plan to the IMF board doesn't think of himself as administering colonialism.
He has a PhD from LSE.
He genuinely believes the model.
This is not a conspiracy.
It is an education system.
A Nigerian will attack another Nigerian for not being able to afford an ₦18m locally made car, then turn around tomorrow to blame the government for mass impoverishment.
The contradictions here are exhausting.
Nigerians would rather buy the lemons rejected abroad, accident vehicles, drowned cars and so forth than buy a brand new Innoson car. It’s a mindset problem.
One day, we will ask this tough question in Nigeria: why is no one giving Innoson vehicles the promotion they deserve?
Over 100 brand-new cars gathering dust, yet still no buyers. 🥲💔
It is not even really about drinking water. It is about judgment. If, in an age of abundant information, people can still be this confidently confused about something so basic, it does not inspire much confidence in the quality of their political choices.
Ahh! Which one we go believe like this! This doctor said it’s not good to drink too much water, especially when your body isn’t asking for it. He explained that the kidneys and the hormones responsible for regulating water will signal the body when it needs it. According to him, doctors actually know this but say the opposite, and that’s why there are so many kidney pr0blems in the country.