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Incuriousity will kill you!
As a young person, it’s a crime to not be curious about your world.
When @jordanbpeterson said the greatest skills you can have are reading and writing, I thought it was an oversimplification until I took stock of my trajectory. I realized that most of my ideas and opportunities have jumped at me in the place of reading, writing or reflecting on a concept I had just read or listened to.
Read books that discuss concepts, ideas, essays written by brilliant and accomplished people. Read beyond your comfort zone. Read for the sake of knowing.
In some cases, at the intersection of your primary field and another field you are reading about, you may develop a niche career out of it. You are privileged to be born in an age where you have YouTube, Google, AI. Act like it.
How badly do you want to be extraordinary?
If you are curious enough, you’ll have no need for mentorship. Knowledge is not scarce, source for it.
You can be a master at anything if you devote 10,000 hrs to it.
You want to write beautifully? Read
If you discipline yourself enough to want something, If you’re tired of being mediocre, you will fight to get out.
Be curious!
So happy for Harry Kane. At least, years from now, even without any serious cup win, the Ballon D’or winner would be written under his name.
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Screenshots from my piece, “The Primacy of Ideas”, for @thezeitgeistnow’s Praxians.
Read the full piece here: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
We had a culture of conquest. We were not self-sufficient. We didn’t even have writing. But that isn’t even my point.
If we must grow, we need to change our mode of inquiry. It is not ‘what’ we have but why we have what we have.
Ask the Greeks, the progenitors of Western civilization.
Especially Thales in the 6th BC. He said why say the gods caused the earthquake, for instance, when we can find out if we can explain it through natural principles.
That our “harmattan” that has suddenly changed character may have been predicted with this mode of inquiry and we would have thought of inventing the air conditioner.
"Someone" here 👋🏾
The heat today wasn't always there. Climate change has done a lot to the climate we all grew up in. Heck, our harmattan that used to feel like peak autumn is nearly completely gone. We had no use for ACs because these heatwaves weren't a thing. The people who needed the ACs invented them.
My argument was that we were sufficient and had no culture of conquest, and there's bountiful evidence that we were developing at our own pace technologically. It'd be wrong to argue that there'd never have been a technological leap that caught us up without interference.
Welcome back Ifechi, I missed our small small arguments, even the ones you still laugh about
Luke in Acts. 17 said that the Bereans were most noble because they listened to Paul’s teachings and went back to search the books to check if they were correct.
Those Bereans were Greeks.
Little wonder they codified thinking and logic, the foundation of every human invention.
Sometimes you see a name like Aristotle come up in different fields like Biology, Politics, Poetry, Astronomy because they valued observations.
The Greek society never stopped at myths. Nothing was too sacred to poke at. If you claimed something, be ready to come before the people armed with questions.
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Norway uses its oil wealth to support public services, including education. Young Norwegian students can attend public universities without tuition fees, while children benefit from free public primary and secondary education. Nigeria is also an oil-producing country, we should borrow a leaf from Norway and turn our oil wealth into better schools, affordable university education, and opportunities for young people.
Our natural resources should improve the lives of our people, not just enrich a few, stop defending the politicians who are impoverishing you with their inhumane policies.
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3/3
Most Black folks are talented and they thrive individually but fail repeatedly as a collective. Most of them want to eat today and rub it in the face of their neighbours.
Rap this up. Stale.
This is what happens when you swallow western propaganda whole with no attempt to educate yourself with their internet. Have you heard of a not so little thing called colonialism and the human trade that disrupted our development? Was air-conditioning made before that? We don't plant trees? With all our forests and sacred groves that law, religion and culture demanded remain inviolate till same western laws and culture dictated they be cut down? Now they are the ones teaching us to plant trees? Before they stumbled on the science of conservation we were there. They stole these things from you, destroyed yours, then taught you to worship them for it. Same people with the over industrialized, smoking, noisy, stinking cities, literal concrete jungles that polluted the world, ushered in the era of climate change and destroyed the ozone layer. "Writer." Try to do some reading first ehn, so what you write won't be regurgitated centuries old propaganda missionaries were selling
Again, you miss the point.
Vision
Ancestors didn’t project a population bulge?
Didn’t prepare against seasons water bodies would recline?
You think on a hot afternoon if Okonta came back from hunting and into a pre-AC chilled hut, he would not offer all his game to his Ikenga in thanksgiving?
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That’s why children need siblings. Siblings will be in each others lives longer than anyone else
“Electrical engineering Project defense in an auditorium with no electricity.”
How is this normal?
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Even among educated Nigerians, trees around (no matter how harmless) means an undeveloped neighbourhood.
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Said same elsewhere:
Professors of public health living with mosquitoes and open sewers.
Electrical engineering Project defense in an auditorium with no electricity.
Hospitals with dirty toilets and poor hygienes.
Doctors drinking sachet water.
Something is amiss!
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My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow.
“If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people.
In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.”
Read more 🫶⬇️
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Interhouse is live!
The Nigerian boarding school social network I've been building since 2024 is finally open.
I drew the house crests & sang the music myself 😩
Join a house, dress your Roomie, find your table
Let's meet in my boarding school world ♥️
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We need a new framework for learning in this country.
Table-stakes intelligence in this climate is tree-planting. But you see even ‘rich’ neighbourhoods barren and arid.
If you set an exam for the average Nigerian on how to combat our climate, they would write tree-planting.
But we never do it. Why? Performative intelligence.
We know how to say the right answers. But we seem helpless in reality.
Watched women sell palm oil to me from large peak milk tins. Much of the oil was wasted from transferring the oil to my jerrycan.
And I though about those gardeners’ kettles.
But they said using those tins is what they are used to.
We are not always that helpless.