Member Of Parliament For Chegutu West | I measure my life not by titles or trophies | Hobbies: Reading And Thinking 💭
Chegutu Zimbabwe
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Africa suffers from inferiority complex syndrome, wasn’t this going to be the greatest Mashemeji Derby in our motherland Africa 🌍
There are industries in which technical expertise, intellectual competence and physical courage alone are not enough. In sectors such as oil and gas, mining, construction, aviation, maritime operations and underground engineering, one encounters realities that challenge the boundaries of human understanding. What I can say is certain experiences defy conventional explanation, which I’ve concluded that’s its reminding us that not everything that governs the physical world is necessarily visible to the human eye. In such environments, spiritual consciousness is not merely a matter of personal belief; it becomes a profound source of discernment, humility and reverence for forces greater than ourselves. There are dimensions of existence that machinery cannot detect, science has yet to explain, and human intellect must approach with humility.
An addition to my ever growing library
Today, after seven years of work, The Law of the Sublime is out in the world.
When I started this book, I had an ambitious plan. I would go down the Amazon, find chimpanzees in the wilds of Africa, and cross the Gobi Desert, then write about those experiences of awe.
Then, on a hot August afternoon in 2018, I had a stroke while driving in Los Angeles. A blood clot cut off oxygen to my brain, and within seconds I lost consciousness. When I woke up in the hospital, I learned how close I had come to the point of no return. My left hand was frozen into a claw, and I could barely feel my left leg, but something strange happened.
On the ambulance ride home, I looked out at the people on the street, and for a moment I felt I could be inside their bodies and hear their thoughts. It was marvelous and weird, and I knew it was time to write this book.
I couldn't type, so I wrote every page by hand, dictated it, printed it out, and edited it all over again. I couldn't take the long hikes that had carried me through my six previous books. Then one afternoon I woke from a nap in my backyard to find a grasshopper inches from my face, and I understood that this small backyard would have to be my Amazon jungle. The lizards, the hummingbirds, the insects became my teachers.
My limits turned out to be a blessing. They forced me to find the Sublime in the simplest things, and that is what this book is about.
Most of us live inside a circle: an everyday consciousness shaped by culture, convention, and, more and more, technology. That circle keeps shrinking, and we grow bored and restless. Just outside it is the Sublime, a realm that is frightening and exciting at once, pulling us out of our comfort zones and opening us to a much wider reality. The book maps 12 points outside that circle, and each one is a different face of the Sublime.
Inside, you'll find stories of near-death encounters, astonishing discoveries, and radical changes of consciousness, along with exercises and meditations so you can feel the Sublime yourself, not just read about it.
The Sublime doesn't require travel or exotic adventures. It only requires a new pair of eyes for the reality all around you.
The Law of the Sublime is available now in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.
Thank you for your support of my work. I hope you enjoy reading this book, and I look forward to hearing your feedback.
With gratitude,
Robert Greene
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There are political leaders one studies because of their philosophy, others because of their achievements, and a rare few because they compel us to reconsider our understanding of the State itself.
Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, has increasingly become a person of profound interest in my political studies and research.
Here is a leader who confronted a deeply entrenched system of organised criminality, not through the familiar gradualism of conventional political reform, but through an extraordinary concentration and exercise of state power.
The consequences have been remarkable and deeply contested.
A country once synonymous with gang violence has witnessed a dramatic collapse in recorded homicides. Yet the same transformation has involved mass incarceration, prolonged emergency powers and serious questions about constitutional liberties, judicial independence and democratic accountability.
And therein lies the intellectual paradox that fascinates me.
Can extraordinary political power restore the authority of a failing State without eventually becoming a threat to the very society it was mobilised to protect?
Political philosophy teaches us to fear the concentration of power. Political reality, however, occasionally confronts us with circumstances in which fragmented authority appears incapable of confronting entrenched disorder.
Bukele’s experience forces a confrontation between these two realities.
I am particularly interested in understanding whether his approach represents an exceptional response to an exceptional national crisis, or whether it reveals something more fundamental about the relationship between political authority, institutional effectiveness and national transformation.
But another question troubles me even more:
If a nation becomes safer under extraordinary powers, what institutional guarantees ensure that those same powers will never be turned against the innocent?
As I continue studying comparative political systems, statecraft and the challenges of governance, I find Bukele’s experiment increasingly difficult to ignore.
Not because every method deserves admiration, nor because every criticism deserves dismissal, but because serious scholarship must be willing to investigate uncomfortable political realities without becoming captive to ideological prejudice.
Perhaps the deepest question is not whether Bukele has changed El Salvador. The evidence of significant change is difficult to dispute.
The deeper question is whether the institutions of a nation can become stronger than the extraordinary individual who transformed them.
For what ultimately constitutes successful statecraft: the ability of a leader to impose order, or the ability to construct institutions capable of preserving that order long after the leader has departed?
That, to me, is where the real conversation begins.
Can a State become secure without becoming less free? And can extraordinary leadership produce enduring institutions without making those institutions dependent upon extraordinary leadership?
I am studying Bukele precisely because these questions deserve more than conventional political answers.
One truth I have come to appreciate more deeply with the passage of time is that my library is perhaps my most treasured earthly possession. What fascinates me most is that, unlike material wealth, whose value may diminish with time, the intrinsic worth of my books continues to multiply as my understanding deepens. Each time I return to their pages, I discover not merely what the authors knew, but something new about what I have become.
It’s been a beautiful 17 year journey of learning knowledge and wisdom through the tapestry of devious book study
That’s my brother
🇿🇼 Chichi and her dad came all the way from Zimbabwe to see Lewis Hamilton 🥹😍
#F1 #SSMotorsport
Time does not negotiate with ambition. It advances indifferently, rewarding neither intention nor potential, but the disciplined conversion of opportunity into meaningful accomplishment.
Strength needs no witness, and a thought can ripen in silence. Wisdom knows when to reveal the one and give voice to the other. The strength you keep in reserve is still yours to command. The word you release is yours no longer.
The greatest achievement of a man’s existence is not that he becomes known by the world, but that he comes to understand why he was placed in it. For ambition without purpose produces restless achievement, while purpose governed by wisdom produces a life whose significance outlives its owner.
Today’s Philosophical Reflection
“The greatest tragedy is not that a man’s time on earth is limited, but that he may spend his limited time pursuing things that possess no enduring significance. Wisdom begins when we recognise that every morning is not merely another day to live, but another opportunity to justify the privilege of having lived.”
The complexities, contradictions, and unpredictability of human nature never cease to astonish me.
A new world record for the YANGWANG U9 Xtreme. 503.17km/h.
YANGWANG U9 Xtreme has done the impossible, surpassing 500km/h to set a new world speed record in Abu Dhabi.
The fastest production car on the planet just got faster.
#YANGWANG #U9Xtreme #WorldRecord
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The more you learn, the more you discover the limits of what you know; and the deeper your understanding becomes, the more you realise that wisdom is not always found in speaking, but often in the discipline of silence.
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💭 Today’s Philosophical Reflection
“Every sunrise is a quiet reminder that the future is not built by the magnitude of our ambitions, but by the discipline of our daily decisions. A man may possess extraordinary dreams, yet it is what he faithfully does with ordinary hours that ultimately determines the architecture of his destiny.”
