THE DANIEL MAKINDE

Medical school takes about 6 years—if there's no strike. Please immerse yourself into more than just books.🙏 Learn communication skills, marketing, web design, microeconomics, game theory, business, etc. Just absorb. Anything! Life is beyond our "Medicine and Surgery."

stop trading your intellectual ambiguity for the comfort of binaries. reality doesn’t only run on absolutes. there’s black and white, just as there’s grey too.

a lot of us see the world exactly the way we’ve been conditioned to see it.

a lot of times, i hold back my opinions upon realizing i can’t fix this person's fundamentally misaligned perspective with a casual conversation, coupled with the sheer volume of context, unlearning and learning required to bridge their knowledge gap.

xy in med school, if you sight a girl and take an interest, the very last thing that you should have in mind to say when you engage is that you are a medical student. it isn’t the flex you think it is. it is very low bar. and it is social laziness to play that card. do better!

idolizing politicians, celebrities, religious leaders, or public figures is a sign of low iq.

i really wish the handiwork i learned was one that could be invested in for mass production if there’s capital, rather than one where you have to wait for a customer before you can render your service— talking of crafts like shoemaking, carpentry, fashion design, and the likes.

and it always comes from those very dear or people older than you... it’s either they believe your love for them is so blinding, or you being younger implies you are stupid. even though it’s expected of human behavior, it still breaks me every single time. not you again, my God!

i hate manipulative people. or should i say, i hate the fact that you try manipulating me and i can see right through it. it’s more like a double betrayal: first because of the manipulation itself, and second because of the underlying condescension.

it is very rare to find someone who is deeply religious and also radically independent-minded. and i say this from personal experience.

resist the path of least resistance.

for in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ecclesiastes 1:18

there comes a time when patience stops being a virtue.

people often test boundaries not because they are inherently malicious, but because they seek to know the extent of your boundaries. when they see there's no pushback whatsoever, no cost to their behavior, and no friction, they’d keep coming at you. and no, they don’t hate you.

i once had a friend who can’t bring himself to say sorry when he’s wrong.

love yourself enough to leave toxic relationships.

when i see your posts consistently and it has a pattern, theres no denying that isn’t who you are.

educating your children on sex is in no way indecent or immoral; no, your silence doesn't protect their innocence. in fact, their ignorance is far more dangerous in this age of wrong social constructs and misinformed media. don’t leave their sex education to the streets, please!

i so love the northern control of the english accent, it sounds so refined and british. it is amazing how slow cadence, deliberate consonant articulation, and some dental fricatives can trick the ear into hearing a completely different accent, despite the purely local phonology.

islam is grossly misogynistic!

we collect books, adopt the lexicon of deep thinkers, take aesthetic pictures of anything and everything that seems productive, but leave our core beliefs entirely unprovoked. we’ve traded the ugly, uncomfortable work of self-development for the comfort of instant gratification.