A powerful speech: he spoke for the whole of Africa. Well done Ruto 🔥
It is good that the disgraced Tinubu of Nigeria didn’t attend. He would have disgraced Nigeria the more.
Yes, hold your governor to account but don’t forget that the Federal Government still consumes 52% of our resources. 36 state governors only share 28% and 774 LGAs only share 20%. Even if states were to control all LGA funds, that would still be 48% divided among 36 governors while the Federal Government alone consumes 52%.
That’s why the Federal Government can afford to triple the number of agencies it has since the Oronsaye Report from 541 in 2012 to more than 1600 in 2016. That is why the Federal Government can even afford to have fake agencies.
I don’t go searching for Eric’s videos except the ones I see on the TL…
But I think of all of his videos I have ever come across, this is the most profound.
This just taught me a very very valuable life lesson I wasn’t used to.
Thank you @eric_gugua
@OlisaOsega You would think trossard, hincapie were targets or opportunities, we pursued Mudryk and we didn't get him, heaven did not fall , we got another player who improved and helped us win the league
Arteta won the Premier League and instead of spending the summer confirming that he was right, he spent it journaling about what needed to change, including himself.
I think that is such a massive part of what actual self-development looks like.
And honestly, it’s one of the things Pep has done better than almost anyone over the last 15 years. His teams could dominate, win leagues, sometimes completely change the way football was being played, and then he’d change things anyway, different structures, different player profiles, different ways of building, pressing, creating chances, different responsibilities for players.
He rarely seemed interested in proving that the last version was correct forever.
He kept asking what the next version needed to be.
And I think Arteta is showing something similar here.
Because the normal reaction to success is validation. We won, therefore the methods worked, the ideas worked, the way I coached worked, everyone celebrates and then you basically try to do it again.
Arteta seems to have done almost the opposite.
The Times reported that he spent part of the summer writing about his vision for Arsenal, where he wants the club to go over the next few years, while also reflecting on his own energy and enthusiasm for what comes next.
So instead of success answering his questions, it seems to have created new ones.
And I think that’s the bit coaches should pay attention to.
Failure makes reflection easy because something is clearly wrong. You lose, something hurts, the problem is staring at you, so you start searching for answers.
Success is much more dangerous because it gives you permission to stop looking.
It worked.
But did everything work, is the football that got you here the football that takes you somewhere else, do these players now need something different from you, have relationships changed, are your methods still appropriate, have you changed, do you even believe exactly the same things you believed two years ago?
That’s where I think real evolution happens.
And if you only start changing once football proves you wrong, you’re already behind.
The best coaches seem to question things while they’re still working.
I’ve spent a lot of time with coaches around offseason reflection and I think we often make it too much about reviewing what happened, what went well, what went badly, what do I need to fix?
Obviously that matters, but the deeper questions are probably about what happened to you during the season, what kept appearing in your coaching, what language you used, when you became more controlling, what gave you energy, what drained you, what do you believe more strongly now, what are you less convinced by, what kind of coach are you gradually becoming?
Then: what stays, what goes, what grows?
That’s why I like Arteta journaling after winning so much.
He didn’t need failure to give him permission to question himself.
And maybe that’s one of the biggest differences between reflection and actual development.
Reflection looks backwards.
Development uses what you see to become something different.
If you’re only reflecting when something goes wrong, you’re probably missing one of the best opportunities to evolve.
Sometimes the moment you should question yourself most is when everyone else is telling you that you got it right.
The Times article:
https://t.co/RY1pEnd71f
Not the 45 minutes we wanted…
Been saying for weeks + Carra’s said yesterday, newly promoted team away from home isn’t what you want. Stadium rocking, up for the battle…
Hull giving United no space, compact defensively and delivery of crossing been tops. We have to DEFEND crosses better!!!
Big 2nd half coming up..
Rashford on shortly!