Wilfred Wright

Fond of Learning and Freetown.

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

Everyone has learning difficulties in some form or another.

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@ChifeDr @gechife Wise man. Better late than never; I learnt this lesson a long time ago, arguing with my daughter. 😀

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@hackSultan @AltSchoolAfrica What are the entry requirements?

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@hackSultan @AltSchoolAfrica Congratulations and Well Done. Onwards and upwards !

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

@docrodwong 🙏- my wife died of pancreatic cancer; 9 months between the diagnosis and her death. It was published as a case study because it was rare: https://t.co/lJ9mzzPx0g

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

@ChifeDr Porto sounds tempting. Had a lovely holiday there with my late wife a couple of years ago and we contemplated buying something there too.
If you do choose Porto, don't forget to invite your Saro brother o (only 2 and a half hours from the London 😀)

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@ChifeDr Because our "value" system is messed up and many think in one lifetime, rather than generations. My two cents.

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@MGM_BLVCK

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@ChifeDr Well Deserved even though you're looking rather smug 😀

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

"Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true."

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.

The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.

At. All.

The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.

So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.

Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.

That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.

If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.

Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.

Them no really send any part of your papa at all.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I love to remind the silly Nazis that their God was an Arab Jew. Makes their blood boil.

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

@ChifeDr Maybe have a lower level requirement (GCSE, O'Level, Functional Skills Maths) for Arts, Commercial and Vocational and a higer level (A'Level) for science, computing and engineering?

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@tonkolili 😀

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.

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@youngchaponese @asemota @kenju254 How very dare you ! Cassava Leaves is our national dish. 😀

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@georgeluke @itvnews @africaoye Well Done !

[Mark Essien @markessien]

A society needs something like 70% well educated people to accelerate development. You can speed this up by just being a very attractive location for well educated people.

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

@minabilkis Well Done! Maggi not needed. I think someone should do a recipe book of our dishes without maggi and use just salt and pepper and very little oil/palmoil.

[Wilfred Wright @wilfredw]

As Marcus Aurelius said, it’s insane to tie your wellbeing to things outside of your control. Success, mastery, sanity, Marcus writes, comes from tying your wellbeing “to your own actions.”

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

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