this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.
clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?
he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.
work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.
an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.
this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.
money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.
he died in 2020.
one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?
the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.
"Good girl no dey pay."
Kindly enter street 🙏🏾
You don't support young women doing legit works but you'll spray strippers N200k. You wonder why women want to strip.
Please become a stripper 🙏🏾
Please help me. I need N500k urgently. I don't want to sell my body for money.
Please sell it 🙏🏾
I don't know whom you're trying to manipulate.
You cannot blame Messi IF the sport is being rigged in his favour. He is simply a beneficiary of the system. He didn't ask to be favoured or pay to be favoured. IF the rigging does exists, it exists at the plessure of the FIFA President.
Like I've always said, Messi has nothing to prove to anybody. He has dominated the game for 20 years, it is not Spain and France that are his problem. His legacy is untouchable.
People are right to question a bias they think exists to serve him. It is not just football, it is the heart of millions of people back home cheering for the national team only to be destroyed by political interference from the governing body. It is not even good for him because they unknowingly instigating hate against someone that has defined an era with brilliance, colour, and excellence.
The game is more important than anybody - even the President.
Check all your ‘friendships’ that lasted the most..
You’d find out what kept it wasn’t finance/status/going out together and all
You’ll figure HONESTY kept the friendship more than anything else
You were simply HONEST about yourself with them, hence the real long-lasting bond.
Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics no one really talks about.
🗣️🎙️| Roy Keane on Arsenal defeat to Manchester City:
“They’ve bottled it and if you can’t see that, then you’re choosing to ignore the obvious. Everyone can see it. I’ve been saying it since their defeat to Bournemouth: this is what happens when your focus shifts to distractions like TikTok while you’re in a title race with Manchester City.
It’s becoming a yearly pattern for Arteta to lose the league to his mentor. At this point, it almost makes you wonder whether he’s working for Guardiola.”
Money can definitely influence a woman’s feelings. I’ve seen women date or even marry men they might never have considered if the guy didn’t have money. While many men marry for love, a lot of women marry for financial security.
As a working class professional, everybody in your circle cannot be broke at the same time. If you need help and not one person is coming through for you, check your character.
Trust is earned. People must know that you'll return their money as at when due, and that your word is your bond.
I think I must have said this before.
1. Do not build in the same compound with your brother. If you must, make sure that there is a clear demarcation by fencing yours.
2. Do not contribute money together with your brother to build a house. Build yours and let him build his.
3. Do not abandon your own house project to renovate a family house, unless you have enough money to do so, or you are the first son.
4. Once you marry a wife, every property you acquire should be known to your wife. Do not say that you want to hide things from your wife while trusting your brother with all the details.
5. As long as you know that your wife is a good wife to you, tell her that if you suddenly die, she should immediately take all your important documents out of the house to a safe place. If you have more than one car before your demise, ask her to sell any cars that are no longer needed and keep the money for herself and your children.
6. If you're going to do any business with your brother, do so on clear legal and agreed terms. Treat him like a business partner, not like a blood brother.
If you doubt any of these things that I have said, screenshot it and send to your father.
End.
Don’t be the guy that always agrees to something, then pull out or duck last minute
You’re even better off being the guy that declines or acts unsure initially, then later turns up.