Eventually you’ll realize you can just do things.
- you can act before you feel ready
- you can use AI to move faster
- you can learn faster than most people
- you can pick one hard skill and go deep
- you can build proof instead of credentials
- you can join a startup or small team
- you can learn how capital actually works
- you can learn distribution and make yourself visible
- you can stop learning forever and start shipping
- you can be early, wrong, and still ahead
- you can ignore noise and focus on what matters
- you can build MVPs and improve in public
- you can publish consistently and compound attention
- you can learn sales by doing real sales
- you can understand incentives, cash flow, and risk
- you can decompose problems into clear, solvable parts
- you can see how decisions are made and how products fail
- you can make one monetizable skill pay instead of collecting certificates
- you can move fast, fix later, and win through speed
- you can build projects, case studies, and visible results
- you can wear multiple hats and compress years into months
- you can learn in public and attract smarter people
- you can stop waiting for permission and start operating
None of this is locked.
It’s just work, consistency, and time.
Bringing this back again:
For your child(ren), do this if you are in 🇬🇧, 🇳🇬, 🇨🇦 or 🇺🇸
🇬🇧 UK:
With a £300 deposit, invest £70 monthly at an avg. interest rate of 8% per annum. After 18 years, the balance would be ~£35k
🇳🇬NG:
With a ₦200k deposit, invest ₦100k every month into an account yielding 12% pa. After 18 years, the balance would be ~ ₦79m
🇨🇦CAN:
No depost, invest $208 every month into an RESP account (with CESG grant) yielding 6% pa. After 18 years, the balance would be ~ $96k
🇺🇸 US:
With a $300 deposit, invest $100 every month into a 529 account yielding 8% pa. After 18 years, the balance would be ~ $50k
Absolutely brilliant post
Every UK individual should read and do this
Stop wasting time trying to be the next Warren Buffett
You will lose money and sleep
This is the most proven and probable way of making money long term
Quite literally the worst advice you can get.
In your 20s you:
- Don't have kids
- Don't have as much responsibilities as you're still transitioning into proper adult hood,
- You have more strength
- You have more time
And not to mention the more you wait and "relax", the more the economy of whatever country you stay in, dwindles.
Please make sure to burden yourself as much as possible in your 20s if you want any tangible growth in your field.
Yes, you can still make it later, but trust me it gets harder, put in your work.
Worked 2 decades in in consulting.
Made Partner in my 30s.
Led teams of 100+ people.
Run 9-figure client portfolios.
Lived and worked in 4 continents.
To grow fast, I had to learn practical ways to "narrate reality" to my leaders, without turning into the loudest guy in the office.
3 UNDER-DISCUSSED WAYS TO SELF-PROMOTE
1) Run "impact debriefs" after every meaningful piece of work, and make them impossible to ignore.
A lot of people finish a project… and move on.
They think "Well, my boss saw how hard I worked. They know."
No they don't.
After every major milestone (eg, a workshop, a turnaround, a nasty delivery save) write a one-page impact note and send it to the people who matter.
Frame it as a story of change: what was broken, what you changed, what business risk or cost you removed, what decision you unlocked, etc
Use numbers, but lead with stakes.
An exec doesn't care about "I consolidated 3 misaligned streams" but they get interested with "I prevented a $4M regulatory exposure by getting 4 execs to align on a single approach"...
The right people remember evidence.
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2) Translate your work into executive language, even if nobody asked you to.
Early in your career you think work is about doing, but later you realize careers are built on how your work is interpreted.
Every month, force yourself to rewrite what you did in a language an exec would respect:
Risk reduced.
Revenue unlocked.
Delay avoided.
Optionality created.
Take the complex thing you did in the trenches and narrate it as cause-and-effect.
For example:
"I built a dashboard" is output.
"I gave the CFO a single source of financial truth and eliminated three weeks of reconciliation activities per quarter" is impact.
Then drip-feed that language in conversations, performance reviews, 1:1s, town halls.
You are simply making reality visible at the altitude where decisions are made.
IMPORTANT!!! If you do not narrate it, someone else will, and they will narrate themselves into your work.
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3) Build a small internal audience and teach them what you are learning.
All right, this is the highest-leverage move.
Once a quarter, run a short learning session inside your team or practice: teach a principle that emerged from your work.
Explain the context and trade-offs, give details, so that people start seeing you not as a deliverable machine but as a person who creates understanding.
Understanding is political capital.
Executives hear about people who create understanding.
Careers move around those people.
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Let me be even more explicit: doing important work in silence is romantic, but in reality, silence gets mistaken for irrelevance.
Be an high achiever, but don't be a QUIET high achiever.
Narrate what is true: do it with restraint, precision, and respect for the craft.
I wrote a chapter in "Beyond Slides" with more suggestions on how to "self-promote without looking like an asshole", so have a read at the below extract!
All the best!!
So idk this may sound odd but I saved a clip from
This interview and it’s in my favourites marked gallery .
Whenever I lose hope or low I’ll see that clip it throws hope at your face and says you to get up and believe in everything you do
As you start today with all the motivation in the world, remember this: it won’t last.
Build a routine. Do it no matter what. When you really can’t, don’t quit or beat yourself up, just do it the next day. Show up, over and over.
It is the only thing that works.
Now to the business of the day, as promised.
Many people have asked me to share the principles highlighted in these stories. These principles are not limited to owning a car or relocating; they apply to any desired goal you want to attain—healing, a life partner, a job, and more.
These are the same principles I used, the same ones I shared with others, and they worked for them.
I sincerely pray that as you read, truth will be revealed to you.
To avoid a long read, I will send them by numbers.
Mark 11:23
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, “Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea,” and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.
1. Remove Doubt
Your desire for a car, a life partner, healing, relocation, or any life goal must be burning and unshakable.
Eradication of doubt is the birthplace of miracles.
Speak it as fact, not as a distant wish.
Say it until every nerve in your body vibrates with belief.
When you declare with conviction:
I am destined for greatness
I am destined to own a car
I am destined to relocate
I am destined to be married
I am destined to work in XYZ company
and many more declarations spoken with the fire of conviction, you summon unseen forces - opportunities, people, and circumstances - to align with that command.
In 2008, I told my fellow artists - Chubuike, Lawunmi, and another colleague in the graphics section - that a day would come when I would become Tony Elumelu’s personal graphic artist, and that he would move me to his floor.
We joked, laughed, and even dramatized it.
On February 6, 2010, I was already in Tony Elumelu’s house for meetings as his personal graphic artist. By the following Monday, my office was relocated - by the order of the GMD himself - to the 18th floor, the Chairman’s floor.
Warning:
Never speak against yourself.
Do it even once, and you weaken your power.
Doubt is poison, and it spreads fast.
Doubt weakens your signal.
That is why I always beg those whose stories I mention: please do not doubt.
Remember what Jesus said:
“…and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
So today you will say
I speak with authority, and my words carry power.
I do not doubt in my heart.
I believe what I say, and what I say comes to pass.
I have whatever I declare in faith.🙏🏿
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