THE DANGER OF BEING OURSELVES. TRULY BEING OURSELVES

It is the naive that tell you 'to be yourself'. The premise of this advice is naiveté at its worst. Because it assumes that all humans are the good guys. The reality, though, is that we are not all good guys. Telling a terrorist to be himself, an axe murderer to be herself, an anti-Semitic mass shooter to be himself, a pedophile to be himself, is not good for the overall well-being of the human race.

Dictators, nuclear weapons scientists, drug barons, child traffickers are being themselves as well as astronauts and missionary doctors and kindergarten teachers. The blanket statement ‘be yourself’ is a loaded weapon, capable of immense good or of unthinkable disaster.

The solution then, is to tell the human race to be the good version of themselves. Or be someone else other than their evil selves. For if the devil were to get hold of that advice and take it seriously, we'd all be in trouble. 

On second thoughts, I think he has.

Why Boko Haram is the best recipe for economic boom in Nigeria since the discovery of oill

Why Boko Haram is the best recipe for economic boom in Nigeria since the discovery of oil
War is horror. There are few things more destructive than he carnage that results from war. Natural disasters, for instance. But sometimes, war can be the solution to a booming economy.

Before America joined in the fight against Hitler in World War 2, her economy was wilting. Unemployment was at a record high, the effects of the Great Depression were present in the minds, stomachs and businesses of the people.

But immediately the Empire of Japan bombed Pearl Harbour and forced President Roosevelt to declare war, the machinery of economic boom kicked into place.

For you see, to keep the troops fit for battle, American businesses began to organise and manufacture. Women, for the first time in the history of the country, joined the workforce; increasing human capital by nearly 50%! Intel. Weapons. Food. Uniforms. Entertainment. Medical Supplies. These and more were needed to win the war, not counting the aid collaboration that flowed in and out from allies
 The Stock Exchange began to thicken with activities and the dollar indeed strengthened. At the end of the War, Hitler was dead and America was alive. Her economy, that is.

And this is the reason for the title of this piece. That the Nigerian Government is yet to realise that the terror threat on hand is the perfect opportunity to create jobs.

Recruiting the troops, their uniforms, their foods, medication, their intel and equipment, amidst others are a key employment tools.

No, I don't mean the selected companies to whom weapons sales contracts are being awarded to.

I mean if indeed the government made the fight against terror the collective fight of all, then citizens will care enough to volunteer information, give their bio-tech ideas on how to smoke out the enemy. Then people will care enough to come forward with their machines that can detect explosives and/or neuter them ere they explode. The farmers would have gone to their farms earlier to harvest food for the troops. We might have explored technology to render our military planes more stealth. Satellite tracking might have managed to predict the movements of the terrorists. That 17 year old kid might have found a way to track them from their latest Youtube upload. Doctors might have been on hand to treat wounded men and rehabilitate shell-shocked ones. Etcetera.
If the government had involved us, made this war ours, then we would have said, the troops need us, need our expertise, our loyalty. Let's unite to fight our common enemy.

If the government had made this fight our fight, then we would have cared enough to engage in creative ways to rid our land of this enemy and by so doing, inadvertently, creating more jobs and an economic boom that's non-oil related.

But sadly, the rhetoric behind the war on terror is this: 'we know the people behind Boko Haram. They are in my government and their aim in to destabilise my efforts so that everyone will say I have run an ineffective government.'

When citizens begin to say 'ehn, let them kill themselves in the north, nothing consign me, I'm a Southrrner', then the collective resolve needed to weed out terror while growing our economy is lost.

The green is lost.

NAPOLEON HILL WAS WRONG |THINK AND GROW RICH|

The book 'THINK AND GROW RICH' is arguably the world's premier manual on wealth accumulation. Everyone from residents of the Forbes' list to aspiring entrepreneurs swear by Hill's exposé. 

Revolutionary though Hill's work is, it contains an error. An error in declaring that success usually eludes its pursuer until the age of forty due to an inability to rein in overactive sex drives. ‘Sex transmutation’, is the phrase he used. 

Here are his exact words, excerpts from Chapter 11 of Think and Grow Rich.
I discovered, from the analysis of over 25,000 people, that men who succeed in an outstanding way, seldom do so before the age of forty, and more often they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of fifty. This fact was so astounding that it prompted me to go into the study of its cause most carefully, carrying the investigation over a period of more than twelve years. 

This study disclosed the fact that the major reason why the majority of men who succeed do not begin to do so before the age of forty to fifty, is their tendency to DISSIPATE their energies through over indulgence in physical expression of the emotion of sex. The majority of men never learn that the urge of sex has other possibilities, which far transcend in importance, that of mere physical expression. The majority of those who make this discovery, do so after having wasted many years at a period when the sex energy is at its height, prior to the age of forty-five to fifty. This usually is followed by noteworthy achievement. 

The lives of many men up to, and sometimes well past the age of forty, reflect a continued dissipation of energies, which could have been more profitably turned into better channels. Their finer and more powerful emotions are sown wildly to the four winds. Out of this habit of the male, grew the term, "sowing his wild oats." 

The desire for sexual expression is by far the strongest and most impelling of all the human emotions, and for this very reason this desire, when harnessed and transmuted into action, other than that of physical expression, may raise one to the status of a genius."
Hill was limited by the technology, the available information of his time. He couldn't have foreseen Justin Bieber, Honey Boo and the sour-faced cat who has more money than most senior executives. Hill couldn't have foreseen the fact that teenagers, babies really, are Youtube phenomena who pull in 7 figures monthly. Hill couldn't foresee Bill Gates.

Like Roger Bannister who broke the barrier and paved the way for others, Bill Gates shattered the billionaire glass ceiling that Napoleon Hill and his research set in place for the rest of humanity. Dude was worth billions before he turned 40. Zuckerberg, Facebook founder did it by 23. Silicon Valley is full of guys like this. Guys who are giving Hill's research the middle finger. Who achieved worthwhile success before the big 4-0, men whose sex drives were still roaring like the revved up engines of those autos in Fast and Furious movies, men who have barely outgrown their boyhood.

Not just in technology and science, but in advocacy. Teenager Malala (she's so famous she needs no surname) is the youngest human ever to win a Nobel. Critics say it's because she was shot by a world-famous terror group and survived. Critics also don't realise there are millions of gunshot-wound survivors. The fact remains, Malala is not 40. 

Hill, you were wrong. 

Goes to show that the best profound-sounding philosophy is at best limited by the technology; the available information of its time.
So in business and in relationships, in life and even in death, challenge the status quo, no matter how highly profiled the upholders of said status quo are. 

It is always right until proven wrong. Hill was wrong. In that particular philosophy, at least. The choice then remains with you and me. Who will we be: the person that is limited by the Napoleon Hills or the person that will shatter the ceilings set in place by the Napoleon Hills?
Disculpa, Napoleon. This one, you got wrong. Thank you though, for the rest of your book. 

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