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[Rene🧚🫧 @sheisafairyyy]

I just remembered how excited I was to stop using pencils and start writing with a pen in Primary 3. Funny how the smallest things felt like major milestones back then.

If only I knew 😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The most famous leadership moment of Alexander's life happened in the middle of his worst disaster.

This painting shows the Gedrosian desert crossing, 325 BC. Scouts found enough water to fill a single helmet and carried it to Alexander while his army died of thirst around him. He thanked them, raised the helmet, and poured it into the sand in front of everyone. If his men couldn't drink, neither would he.

The army roared. Arrian wrote that the whole column felt as if every man had drunk that water himself.

Here's the part the painting leaves out. Alexander chose this route. His generals pushed for the safer northern road back from India. He marched tens of thousands of soldiers plus camp followers into one of the harshest deserts on Earth anyway, partly to outdo the Persian kings who had failed to cross it. By some ancient accounts three quarters of the column never made it out. Sixty days of sand killed more of his people than a decade of battles against the Persian empire.

So the gesture that gets painted, quoted, and taught in leadership seminars was damage control for a catastrophe he personally authored. And it worked. The survivors stayed loyal, followed him out of the desert, and would have followed him further.

That's the uncomfortable lesson 2,300 years later. People will forgive the decision that nearly killed them if you visibly suffer it beside them. Shared misery buys more loyalty than good judgment ever has.

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@aakashgupta Well said

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@Alextrille He will be very important for us

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@t_wise1_ Yes

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@Oluwanifise13 This can be anywhere in Lagos

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@marhgician Walahi

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

When you ask someone for money and they say they don't have it, don't take it personally — you also don't have it.

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@Sammy___dc Brooo

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@theladymotara @GigiKitchen001 Fairs

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@poronto50 @smartnakamoura LMAO

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@Okochoko_1 @TouchlineX No

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Eden Hazard signed for Chelsea #OnThisDay in 2012. 💙✨

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@OgbhemheG @ThatOjoBoy She has a bad character, simple.

[Iyawo Šeško🧚🏾‍♀️ @Bruno21Assists]

E no get movie wey Chelsea never act for this league.😭😂😂

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@johnvictorosas I agree

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@Ruxiiii4 Well said

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@MooreRMFC Correct

[𝐌 @MooreRMCF]

I actually agree and can’t fault having a PSG player as the MOTM because they won but it would be so nice if awards are given without certain contexts.

For the 120 mins’ the ball was in play for, there was no better player on that pitch yesterday than Gabriel Magalhaes.

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@Ehimare_B Yep