'Gbubemi E. Atimomo

Consultant | Entrepreneurship @sidehustleng | Writer #TheWayISeeThingsToday | The grass is always greener on your side, you only need to water your garden!

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

Probably my most liked tweet ever 😂😂😂 Please check out my weekly publication "The Way I See Things Today" on Medium. I wrIte about anything that tickles my fancy. The articles are interesting, I promise 😁
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['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

A video of a young lady being corrected by UBA Chairman Tony Elumelu on how to address him has been trending lately. I shared my thoughts on this issue a few years ago... what do you think?

https://t.co/8duhwRpRoX

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@ayumzi @NaijaTrend_1 In my opinion, though, I might be wrong

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@ayumzi @NaijaTrend_1 Yes, it is possible, but she didn't apologise, so I question that too.

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@ayumzi @NaijaTrend_1 I wouldn't immediately assume she is disrespectful. Many organisations adopt a first-name basis these days, so she may have assumed he was ok with it. What would make me think she was disrespectful was her not apologising after being corrected. No manners at all

[Emmanuel Olabode @theolabodeeko]

This July, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka turns 92. In his honour, Olongo Africa is making Ebrohimie Road: a Museum of Memory available to watch online for free for seven days. Produced/directed by @kolatubosun Cinematography by legendary @tkelani
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[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have friends who are older and very fit because of their lifestyle. They don't drink or smoke and exercise daily. They also have the most unfit kids who don't follow their example. This has always worried me as I am raising young children. I have also seen families with hard-working and wealthy parents who raise the laziest and most entitled children.

We always want our children to do better than us, but when and where does this go wrong for most people? I think it comes from the time and attention we personally give our kids and the lapses we allow.

My wife and I are early risers. I have a particular sleep problem I am still trying to solve, but my kids can sleep all day on vacation if you let them. A friend with an older son who had just graduated and was back home, jobless, used to tell me how alarmed he was that the son would go out all night, come back early in the morning, and sleep all day.

I told him then that if he didn't force him to change that habit, he would remain jobless and stay with his parents longer. They eventually forced him to change, and he moved out. He has a job now and struggles a lot. His parents are concerned that he isn't thriving. He is now almost 30, and I think about this all the time. At 25, I was a beast and had started many businesses.

While we want our kids and young adults to experience life on their own terms in a world vastly different from the one we grew up in, we can't help but notice that others whose children were more disciplined are thriving better. One indicator I have seen that correlates with success in younger people is fitness.

A friend’s son started going to the gym regularly, and he even inspired his cousins to do so. I checked on LinkedIn recently, and he is doing exceptionally well as a lawyer and investment banker without any family connections or assistance. His younger cousins, who are looking up to him, are following in his footsteps. I decided to get my kids to spend more time with him.

The role models our children need may be closer to their age than ours. It is why we need to amplify the lifestyles of young, disciplined, and successful people more. Not every person will make it through creative pursuits. I stress this to my kids all the time. There are billions of YouTube channels, but there is only one MrBeast or IShowSpeed.

Social media is highlighting more unrealistic role models than the most useful ones. My daughter is likely one of the most intelligent young children that I know, but because she doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, she is adapting to popular culture to blend in, in a way that scares me. This sometimes affects the way she learns. While I don't want to restrict her now from experiencing the world, I have realized that she needs different role models.

My son’s role models are nerds, and he nerds out in ways that surprise me and it is also worrying. We can be watching a movie, and he goes online to research it and summarise the plot so he can leave to code. He is not experiencing life enough outside the internet.

They will either eventually be ok in a world very different from ours or struggle in a world that becomes worse than ours, without the skills to build personal resilience and strong social skills.

I recently had a personal experience that made me realize I was fortunate to have left home early and to have different role models from my parents. Having a broken home led to different outcomes for my siblings and me, but the fact that I had strong personalities like my mother’s uncle and the uncles I grew up around helped me learn a lot more about life and priorities.

The world is a very complex place, and life is not a bed of roses. While we want the best outcomes for our kids, we have to finally admit that they will learn far more from others than they will ever learn from us. The best thing we can do for them is expose them to the right kind of people early enough, then hope and pray that we didn't misread those people.

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@MoBeckley @SPARNigeria I was wondering the same thing last week. I had to squint to see the prices

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

I accidentally broke my brain reading about Nobel Prize winners last month.

There's this thing called "Janusian thinking" that basically explains why some people's minds work like magic while the rest of us think in straight lines. Named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces pointing opposite directions.

The psychologist who discovered it, Albert Rothenberg, was trying to figure out what made breakthrough thinkers different. He interviewed dozens of Nobel laureates, major artists, revolutionary scientists. What he found sounds impossible.

These people can hold two different ideas in their mind at the same time. They can explore both without switching back and forth or forcing a quick comparison. They can consider “yes” and “no” to the same question simultaneously and stay clear-headed.

Einstein too talked about this when he described his relativity breakthrough. He was imagining riding alongside a beam of light while also standing perfectly still. Both perspectives at once. Mozart said he could hear an entire symphony "all at once," every note, every contradiction, every resolution happening in a single moment of awareness.

Your average person's mind works like a courtroom. Evidence comes in, you weigh it, you reach a verdict. Case closed. But Janusian minds work more like... I don't know, like a quantum computer that can process multiple realities simultaneously until something new emerges from the overlap.

I've started noticing it in conversations. When someone can genuinely see both sides of something without needing to pick one, it drives people nuts. They want you to land somewhere definite. The ability to live in that tension space reads as wishy-washy or indecisive.

Most creative advice tells you to "think outside the box." But Janusian thinking is weirder than that. It's being inside and outside the box at the same time. It's thinking the box exists and doesn't exist simultaneously.

Which explains why truly creative people seem slightly unhinged. They think they're choosing between realities. But, they're inhabiting multiple realities at once, mining the contradictions for insights the rest of us never see.

Sadly, most of us have trained ourselves out of this ability. We've learned that holding contradictions feels unstable, so we rush toward resolution. We've been taught that changing your mind means you were wrong before, so we defend positions instead of exploring them.

But the people changing the world have kept that childlike ability to hold impossible thoughts without needing them to make sense immediately.

We just need to live in the questions everyone else is too scared to ask.

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

Very high standards 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

When Charles de Gaulle led France, he treated public money as something untouchable.
At the Élysée Palace, there was a strict rule for him: no personal expense could ever be paid for by the state.
His wife, Yvonne, kept a small notebook in which she meticulously recorded all family expenses — from food and electricity to clothing and even soap.
At the end of each month, she would send a check to the state treasury, reimbursing every last cent.
Once, an accountant remarked that this was not really necessary.
She calmly replied:
“Everything that is not public is personal.
And for personal matters, we pay ourselves.”
This principle applied without exception.
Their children and grandchildren were not allowed to use official cars for private matters.
De Gaulle himself refused any privileges of office: he paid his own bills at the palace — even for the smallest things, such as soap or family meals.
Moreover, he did not use his presidential salary, living only on his military pension.
After his death, there was no wealth or luxury left behind — only a modest house in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, purchased before the war.
It is said that he would sometimes personally send money to the treasury if he suspected that any personal expense might have accidentally been covered by the state budget.
This was not a formality.
It was a principle.
✨ An example of true integrity, honor, and responsibility in public service.

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@id49ja Same thing I said in a WhatsApp group, lol

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

My late father did this. He had a video cam in the 80s and 90s, and he recorded his activities. Sadly, most of it was lost. I started keeping a "Brag List" many years ago, too. No one can tell your story better than you, and no one is as invested in your story as you @id49ja

[Ayo Shonaiya @AyoShonaiya]

I can relate to this 110%. Documentation is very important. I started recording and documenting my life and work in 1992 right after film school, and after I put out my documentary in 2022, many people were amazed at how much I have done over 30 years.

In Nigeria, it is common for people to ERASE you from their story or history and just say “it is God that did it”, so that if you now say something, it will look like you’re dragging credit with God. This is why today I can tell my story with 30 years worth of over 600 hours of video footage. No Nigerian, dead or alive, comes close in terms of archives!

Not only should you document your story, TELL your story. Boast about your achievements. Never be shy to blow your own trumpet. Do not wait for anyone to give you any “flowers”, you build your own rose garden.

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@aninoritse Happy 40th birthday Anino!!! Enjoy many more blessed years ahead by God's grace!!!

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read.

It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book.

Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good.

Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

[Ojora Babatunde @ojbsports]

Beauty and Brains..

😍😍😍😍💚🤍💚

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

So very true 🤔

[Sir T Shiimi @Incredible_Tau]

You can read all the books. Watch all the documentaries. Listen to all the stories. But nothing, and I mean nothing, will prepare you for certain moments in life until you're standing in them yourself. Marriage. Divorce. Childbirth. Losing someone you love. Parenting. They all look so different when it's your heart on the line. Your choices. Your pain. Your mess. Your miracle.

It's easy to sit on the outside with theories, opinions, and assumptions. It's easy to think you'd handle it better. Until life turns to you and says, "Your turn." And suddenly, you understand. You understand the tears. The silence. The fight to keep going. The strength it takes to show up when everything feels heavy. The courage it takes to start over.

Life has a way of humbling us all. So be slow to judge, quick to offer grace, and always remember, what you don't understand today, you just might face tomorrow. We're all just figuring it out as we go. And that's more than okay.

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

Today's "TWISTT": Musings on Writing, Self-Doubt, and the Courage to Share Your Thoughts Publicly

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['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

@LajuIren Aaaaah, another reason for me to see this movie 😂

['Gbubemi E. Atimomo @Oritsega]

An Itsekiri film I must see!

[The Lord's storyteller @LajuIren]

When you see this, please retweet and say ONOBIREN! See cinematography nau! We need 2k retweets on this please!

First official trailer for sweet film, out in cinemas on March 6th!

Thank you!