Pan-Africanist man

political analyst, common sense activist, I'm neither left or right, Africa voice matters, none duality globalist, climate change activist

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

In 2002, Jordan Peterson gave a lecture and explained how to kill fear and unlock exponential growth in your life:

1. The materialist view of the world, the one taught in schools and universities, cannot explain consciousness, emotions, or meaning. It is a powerful framework for building technology but a terrible framework for living a life. It leaves out almost everything that actually matters to a human being.

2. Stories are not entertainment. They are the oldest and most accurate map of human experience ever created. Science describes objects. Stories describe what it actually feels like to be alive, to want something, to fear something, to lose something, and to fight your way back. That is why the same stories keep appearing across every culture and every century.

3. Pinocchio is not a story about a puppet who wants to be real. It is a story about a person who has to rescue what matters most to them from the most terrifying place they can imagine. Every great story has that same structure underneath it. Child or adult, the reason you cannot look away is not the animation. It is because the story is telling you something true about your own life.

4. Every human life follows the same basic structure. You are somewhere right now. You want to be somewhere else. Between where you are and where you want to be is a path you know and chaos on either side of it. Everything that has ever challenged you, confused you, or frightened you was simply something that knocked you off that path and forced you to find it again.

5. Negative emotions are not problems to be eliminated. They are your most accurate instruments. Fear tells you something you care about is at risk. Anxiety tells you the path ahead is unclear. Anger tells you something important has been violated. Running from these emotions does not make the problem go away. It just turns off the instrument that was telling you the problem existed.

6. When something unexpected happens your body reacts before your mind does. Your heart rate rises, your attention sharpens, your stomach tightens. This is not irrationality. This is your nervous system detecting that the plan you were using no longer matches reality. Something outside what you expected has appeared and it needs to be dealt with.

7. In every culture across every century, the unknown has been represented as a dragon. Not because ancient people were primitive but because they were precise. A dragon is the perfect symbol for everything you have not yet faced, everything that frightens you before you understand it, everything that sits at the edge of what you know and what you do not.

8. Dragons hoard gold. This is one of the oldest and most important ideas in human storytelling. The treasure, the thing you most need, is never in the safe and comfortable place. It is always in the place that frightens you most. The gold is inside the dragon. That is not a coincidence. That is the point.

9. Every time you avoid something you know you should face, you lose a small piece of yourself. Not dramatically. Not all at once. Just a small reduction in your capacity, a small gap in your armor. Do this enough times and you become someone who cannot hold their own weight, let alone carry anyone else.

10. Every time you face something you were afraid of and do not run, the opposite happens. You take a piece of what frightened you and integrate it. You become slightly more capable. The next frightening thing is slightly less frightening. This is not a metaphor. It is the actual mechanism by which people grow.

11. The problem with fighting symptoms instead of causes is that symptoms are infinite. If a dragon keeps breathing fire that turns into monsters, killing the monsters one by one accomplishes nothing. More keep coming. The only solution is to go straight to the source. In your own life the source is almost always the thing you have been most consistently avoiding.

12. Peterson's five-year-old nephew figured this out in a dream. Surrounded by endless monsters he did not fight them. He went straight to the dragon, blinded it, went down its throat, cut out the piece that made the fire, and used it as a shield. A five-year-old in a nightmare understood instinctively what most adults spend their whole lives avoiding. Go to the source. Face the thing directly. Take a piece of it for yourself.

13. The piece of the dragon you take when you face your fear is real and it protects you. Every person you admire who seems to handle pressure, uncertainty, and difficulty better than everyone else around them has simply faced more dragons than the people around them. They are not built differently. They have just stopped running earlier.

14. The reason you cannot lean on someone who has been running from their fears their whole life is not that they do not care. It is that they have nothing left to lean on. They fell over a long time ago. They are just still standing because nothing heavy has landed on them yet.

15. The question Peterson ends with is the one worth sitting with after you close this post. What if you are actually built for the life you are afraid of living? What if everything you need to handle what frightens you is already inside you? What if the only thing standing between you and the version of yourself you actually want to become is your willingness to stop running from the one thing you already know you should be facing?

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[Dr. Stanley Ssempijja @Ssempijjastanle]

Don’t negotiate with your imagination. Negotiate with reality.

[Pan-Africanist man @kigeziman]

@AKasingye Why attack Gen in Gulu , so you want say you are more wise than him ?

[NBS Television @Fireliglntfi]

Looking at the newly released cabinet list, one cannot miss what appears to have been left out; family members of former heads of state something that had become common in previous cabinets.

@ireneNalumu1

#NBSLiveAt9 #NBSUpdates

[UBC UGANDA @ubctvuganda]

Hon. @JustineNameere: To the best of my knowledge, Hon. Balam and I are not corrupt. If the corruption allegations in local gov't are true, then there will be major shake-ups. We are tired of seeing the President repeatedly begging people to do their jobs.

[Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba]

I refused to join Parliament so that I do not take more money from the people of Uganda. I have dedicated all my allowances as CDF to the people of my country. All those who are interested in jobs and positions have not understood the gospel of PLU.

[Barugahara Balaam Ateenyi. @BalaamBarugahar]

I serve a living God. I honor God, and I praise God.

“Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” Proverbs 16:3

Thank you, Mr. President @KagutaMuseveni, for elevating me. Thank you, Papa Salim Saleh and my leader big brother General @mkainerugaba, for mentoring me. I will never disappoint you. We shall mobilize and serve our people parish per parish.

The transition of our parishes begins immediately. I will not sleep until every parish shines and poverty is removed from our communities. We must work together to transform the lives of our people and build a stronger Uganda.

There will be zero tolerance for corruption in PDM and all poverty alleviation programs during this kisanja. No sleep until service delivery reaches every household and every community benefits from government programs.

Our father Mr. President @KagutaMuseveni, I will not disappoint you. Ugandans, be part of the transition.

God bless Uganda, our esteemed President @KagutaMuseveni, Mama @JanetMuseveni, General Saleh , my leader @mkainerugaba, my family and to the people of Uganda .

Balaam Barugahara Ateenyi

[Pan-Africanist man @kigeziman]

@NinyeTabz Washwara

[Pan-Africanist man @kigeziman]

@NinyeTabz Sorry toliwakitalo nyoo ngabwolowoza

[Frank K Tumwebaze,MP: Isaiah 41: 11 @FrankTumwebazek]

With utmost humility, I thank H.E @KagutaMuseveni for re-appointing me to cabinet. Thank you Mzee for trusting me and giving me an opportunity to serve my country. I pledge (as always); Loyalty & total commitment to duty.

To my Chairman Afande @mkainerugaba, thank you your support & for believing in me.

God bless my leader .God bless Uganda!

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

He's making her united,the nations have united😂😂🙌

[Gasha @alexmugasha1]

In Uganda we have these famous places.
Car mokya
Car Mpala
Car nungu
Car Yunga
Which other car do you know?

[Steff Gariho @SteffGariho]

BREAKING NEWS: Okello onyum Christopher is no more 😭😭😭 He was hanged despite the Appeal he filed this week. 😂

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

"Intellectuals are naturally seduced by the idea of a planned society, because they think they will be in charge of it."

--Philosopher Roger Scruton

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll see farther.”

- John D. Rockefeller

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

Barack Obama: "Just learn how to get stuff done, and people will notice."

[MUSKOSOPHY @muskosophy]

“Be stronger than those who hate you, so that they cannot destroy you, and then forgive them.”

– Elon Musk

[Wayne Frank Ntambi @frankbalkazerg1]

From presidents and billionaires to global power brokers, Mar-a-Lago is known as one of America’s most exclusive political and social gathering spots….a place where high-level meetings, private dinners and influential conversations often happen behind closed doors.

Now, Pastor Robert Kayanja and his wife Jessica have joined the list of notable guests welcomed there after receiving an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The visit places Pastor Kayanja and Jessica in one of the most talked-about circles of influence in American politics and business, with the couple describing the moment as an honour and a blessing.

[Pan-Africanist man @kigeziman]

@BalaamBarugahar @Parliament_Ug @mkainerugaba Balaam tukila ku point simply say i need state house contracts to provide tents and sound system , im not yet full , the only way i can get them is by manipulating the small bond i have with Gen to organize unnecessary events that require my services

[Hon Mwesigye Frank @MwesigyeFranks]

Ugandans, especially those who are struggling and those fighting corruption, this is to let you know that Uzeiye Hadijah Namyalo, the Head of the Office of the National Chairman, has bought her son, Rayan, a brand-new Jetour T2 worth $60,000 (UGX 230 million). And her monthly salary cannot even buy a brand new motorcycle. 💔