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Continue reading →: On continuity, failure and a start poor than expectedWhen one writes an article “How to become a computer programmer” he does this, more or less, having imagined a target audience. Earning less than $2 a day, a cobalt miner in DRC, although contributing to the tech industry, does not make the grade. Thus, when he puts himself on…
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Continue reading →: How to set goals? Lessons from a poor dreamer.Take note: Goals are not for people who have gone far with this life. Even when living under dollar a day, having goals can improve your life. Some are rich. They inherited millions of dollars. Buy they don’t set a goal. So goals are not for endowed people. You don’t…
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Continue reading →: Things to consider before adopting adviceI believe that you are vulnerable when you need advice. It is, therefore, vital for you to investigate closely your sources of help, inside and outside. If an advisor is telling you to adopt one strategy over the other, you need to have known and questioned: Through advice, we have…
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Continue reading →: On consciousness as a cause of success and my saving strategy.Once again I reach the end of the month. It is the end that cannot be given an ever-happily after. So it demands a new month, a sequel that whenever I am still alive the theatre of life does not hesitate but to give me another. But this is not…
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Continue reading →: Why do I blog?I wrote a detail on how I became a blogger. On someone’s website, I came across an About section telling us about his journey and I adopted the same approach. Shortly, I will edit my About section if I make any new advances. I am looking forward to attracting as…
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Continue reading →: A thing that makes intercultural relationships hardI think what makes intercultural relationships and marriages hard is some of the issues you face in relationships do not require your lover to tell you about them. You have to know the cultural and historical origin of the issue. I give an example in an article I wrote when…
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Continue reading →: Why do I struggle to call him “honey” or display affection publiclyI visited a former workmate and I asked her to give me a list of things she finds harder for her to do for her boyfriend. She rather chose to start with her background and her culture. What she said (normal text and my thoughts (italicised) resulted in something like…
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Continue reading →: On indirect misinformation and social mediaWhen we are misinformed on social media we do not see it coming in most cases. We find ourselves in a discussion that needs experts but everyone eventually participates assertively like a professor. Participants are confident that the information they are providing is accurate, relevant and true. Thus, in this…
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Continue reading →: Discover unique insights on what causes success!In the book Outwitting the Devil, on the cause of success, Andrew Carnegie to Napoleon Hills speaks of “a force so intangible in nature that the majority of men never recognized it, a force which might be properly called ‘the other self.’ This other self, the legendary capitalist continues, stays…
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Continue reading →: On circumstances, planning, intuition, decisions, teaching kids and Alexander the Great?Allow me to introduce my hero before I write about intuition and decision-making: There was once a king who, unlike most of his opponents who failed to defeat him once didn’t choose where and when to fight. Alexander the Great who named the city of Alexandria in Egypt would have…
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Continue reading →: How does poor communication destroy the relationshipSince by the aid of speech and such communication as you receive here you must advance to perfection, and purge your will and correct the faculty which makes use of the appearances of things; ~Epictetus (55-135AD), The Discourses of Epictetus, On The Power of Speaking Poor communication starts when you…
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Continue reading →: On goals, infrastructure, achieving and failure to address goals“Have some goals man”, I say to myself waking up depressed as I would when the month is nearing its end or on its eve—this slot I’ve given depression making it appear like my month is like a cyclone with two vortexes on each side and a calm eye on…
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Continue reading →: Game changing origins: A single event that defines destiny, rewrites future entirelyFor Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) it was, definitely, his parents deciding to have him adopted and disappearing out of his life, erasing all the evidence that ever sired him. His “sperm and egg banks” (he calls his parents that while sharing with his biographer, Isaacson) also wanted Steve’s adopters to…
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Continue reading →: Deprivation: I am not sleeping and it’s taking a tollPsychology of my deprivation of sleep: It’s like I am keeping a locomotive, without servicing replacing it, running up and down the tracks. It runs out if it’s tracks. Thanks to my negligence, I blame the weather for softening the ground causing a sagging of the tracks. The tracks may…
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Continue reading →: On how to teach kids independent thinking, my name and identity
The best way to teach a kid to be an independent thinker of the future is to let them float over bodies of knowledge early than to fix their attention to curriculums. That opens up a fertile environment in which not only high grades are achieved but also genius is…
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Continue reading →: Blogging is an ordeal at an expense of own privacyIn 2016, November, I joined this cult of online content creators. My first upload on AfroContinuum was an assignment. It didn’t do well and was somehow graded as a pass because the tutor showed mercy to first year students, for they do not know what they are doing. In April…
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Continue reading →: My life’s senseless demand of progress. My sister is my biggest worry.It doesn’t matter whether I like it or not, I must make daily progress in this life on planet Earth. My life needs that progress at any cost. Sometimes I feel like I am a hostage negotiator and my life is a villain making demands which I am feeling to…
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Continue reading →: Separate who you are from what you do for a living/progressMost of us fail to reach our potential because we don’t separate who we think we are from what we must do for a living, progress, survival or to earn our freedom and happiness. The things you do for a living, progress and takeoff etc. are not designed to be…
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Continue reading →: Setting problems apart and finding the truth.
The reason we always run away from the truth is it projects an image we are not willing to take. So, we instead live opposing the reality and its requirements. We run from the truth through, and not sorely: I read Plato: The Last Days of Socrates, a translation by…
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Continue reading →: What do I love most about creative writingAlexander the Great used the Anvil and Hammer tactic and was so successful with it that he emerged to be the one of the undefeated generals known to have existed. A few centuries later another Greek went to war against Romans who were under the command of Cesar. Pompey the…
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Continue reading →: On strength: Seneca’s “plant which is often moved can never grow strong”Seneca in a letter to a fellow, Lucilius, wrote, “A plant which is often moved can never grow strong. There is nothing so efficacious that it can be helpful while it is being shifted about.” Strength is found in resisting to run away from unpleasant situations, much like that of…
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Continue reading →: What do I love about where I live?
This a broad question I would say, since I may answer it by stating the name of my continent and my love for it. Speaking of the continent, Americans when they visit, do not seem to notice the difference between an African country and Africa. So they bid farewell to…
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Continue reading →: How to lead as the mission you gave followers evolve? Lessons from Alexander the Great.The first thing a successful leader does is give his followers a vision and a mission. It must be Alexander the Great who preached the great times coming after they fought and won a war against their troubles, the Persians, to his Macedonian army. The followers, the Macedonian army, must…
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Continue reading →: You are more vulnerable when you need advice than when you don’tWhen you’re seeking advice and there’s an abundance of it, you might be more susceptible to manipulation, confirmation bias, and second-guessing compared to someone who can’t find advice. For instance, if my sister asks for my opinion on her dress before going out, my answer remains the same even if…
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Continue reading →: What positive emotion do I feel most oftenInspired! Even from the great things that seek to invite my anger and mental crisis. I have realised that the bigger part of my world is not made up of the things that makes its reality. It is in imagination. I have powers to bend my thoughts than to change…
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Continue reading →: The Metro’w Bird • An Inspirational Story • Part 2“The gaunt raptor is immobilised,” quoth one of the fledgling pigeons. The Elder Pigeon, now bespectacled, cast his gaze upon Leosandra, who swiftly returned his glance. Thus, the venerable gentleman secured the cage to forestall any further scrutiny. “What course of action remains? It is evident to me, and perchance…
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Continue reading →: Botoni Cichilids: A problem-solving lesson they have for usFor the male Botoni Cichlids, the spawning season is one of proving how attractive it can get. It performs a solo tango in front of the bride, releasing pheromones. In layman’s terms, one commentator classified pheromones as a love potion. Catfish happen to be scaleless for a reason. Their skins…
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Continue reading →: Do you feel you’re not contributing to your relationship?My girlfriend confessed that she felt that way. She said she thought to make me consider her valid she was left with no choice but to use her body, and bypass complaints to make me happy with her. Being a student she couldn’t afford to call whenever I failed or…
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Continue reading →: The best advice given can be a toxin, a thing to ruin you.I sat down with someone whose words from that session inspired the article “Growing money vs injecting money“. Writing the article, I was quite convinced that “passion misses practicality”. Thus apart from writing the article, I became convinced that it was safe to stop injecting funds and time into my…
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Continue reading →: Follow up blunders with good actions to turn them into good decisionsTo transform blunders into positive decisions, take appropriate actions afterwards. I have learned early that I am not going to make good decisions every time I would want to. It is impossible to guess whether a good decision is good enough. But it is easier to follow up with positive…
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Continue reading →: Human desire is activated by challengesI hate to reach conclusions. More than such, I feel answers, and before them, questions are the power source my progress feeds on. But here I was having concluded, a mere mortal whose existence is a matter of an ongoing struggle in which questions are asked and answers are found.…
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Continue reading →: Chaos is a protocol our abusers use to abuse us.An abusive man or woman intends to always gain an upper hand over the victim—to have his opinion accepted as the father and mother of all opinions; his preferences override all those of the others. To fulfil the demands of this intention so many strategies are pursued. Growing up in…
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Continue reading →: Unforeseen Discoveries: A Lost Dollar Sparks New DirectionsAt 10:34hrs I was still in my blankets, having slept late only to wake up at 06:00hrs. I had to force re-dial my eyes to sleep without results until the time stated above. I had washed all my clothing two days before and my shoes a day before. If there…
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Continue reading →: How best can I make diversification work for me?When I think of diversifying to increase my revenue I first give myself a “what” sort of system I must create. Big established giants have a system that utilises their diversification approaches—I give an example of Amazon and Netflix. To have movies on their streaming platforms both giants first relied…
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Continue reading →: Flexible workplans: Partial vs absolute break from workI hinted that one needs a work plan that can only give him an absolute break from work in the article: How to become rich from scratch? I gave two examples: A teacher and a security guard. The former has a job which some kids in a class have been…
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Continue reading →: Do dating women like men who give them highs and lows? Manipulative guide for men.
Do women like men more when given highs and lows? This is the question I had to ask a workfellow who happened to have attended the same lectures me at the University two years ahead of me. She (30), just like me (28), was locked in the dire straits of…
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Continue reading →: What is the meaning and function of death
“For we mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands.” Above are the words are in the first letter from Seneca to Lucilius. The stoic, in the same letter, rather treated time as a…
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Continue reading →: The priority conflict
In an article on choices and priorities, I touched a little bit on this topic. A priority is, as I believe, a choice within a choice or a minor choice. A choice will make you a parent. While some can, this kind of a choice can’t be reversed. Priorities will…
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Continue reading →: What are choices and priorities? How do they work?
Deeply engraved in how we think, a choice (main choice) is a simple thought and ensuing act of deciding what to have and do. How much you have chosen to do and have will be done and possessed by you is a matter of choices to follow under the main…
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Continue reading →: Maya Angelou’s Wisdom: Changing ways we think to change our lives.
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution. Maya Angelou I hit the screen unlock button only to find these words above, deposited on the lock screen, fired through…
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Continue reading →: How to make patience work for you
To be patient on one does not mean that you don’t look sideways and borrow a stepping stone from a completely unrelated another. The things you are going to borrow will have to include ways of thinking and doing. It is, therefore, essential to separate who you are from what…
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