Gbenga Adebambo
Your Degree Is Just A Piece Of Paper, Your Education Is Seen In Your Behaviour
Your Degree Is Just A Piece Of Paper, Your Education Is Seen In Your Behaviour “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education”- Martin Luther King, Jr. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America once said, “Nothing can stop the man with the right character from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong character”. Your degree is just a piece of paper, your education is seen in your behavior, attitude and character. One thing graduates need to understand is that your employer is employing you and not your certificate! No matter how educated, talented, connected or rich you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Elon Musk said, “My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent an...
You Are Not Here To Gain Acceptance, You Are Here To Fulfill Purpose
MARK ZUCKERBERG: YOU ARE NOT HERE TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE, YOU ARE HERE TO FULFILL PURPOSE “The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own”-Steve Maraboli Geoffrey Albert once said, “When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask for permission, you give someone veto power over your life”. It is appalling how we have been programmed by societal expectations and other people’s opinion. We can actually re-program ourselves to unleash our full potentials. Stop waiting for something to happen or for someone to give you permission to do things; the need for permission is a barrier we create or an excuse we make to prevent ourselves from living the life th...
The Dangers Of Over Protective Parenting
THE DANGERS OF OVER PROTECTIVE PARENTING “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men” – Frederick Douglass Rick Joyner said, “If our life is always easy, it’s because we are called to a lesser purpose”. So many times, I listen to parents boasting pompously that the reason why they struggle so hard to get to where they are today is simply because their children wouldn’t have to pass through what they themselves went through. Such parents quickly forget that the main reason why they are comfortable, rich and stable today is simply because of what they went through! I am not disputing the fact that there are some unnecessary ‘sufferings’ that must be avoided in life, but we must all come to realize that we are simply the outcome of the processes we have been through. Each...
Work Harder On Your Dreams Than You Do On Your Job
WORK HARDER ON YOUR DREAMS THAN YOU DO ON YOUR JOB Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs”- Farrah Gray Kevin Ngo said, “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” You must discipline yourself to work more on your dreams, vision and passion than you work on your job. I learnt something long time ago about loyalty that has guided me in my journey: Your full loyalty must never be to a job, a system, a group of people, an organization or a nation. Your full loyalty must be to your dreams, vision and passion. If you will have to change a job, leave a system, leave an organization or leave a country in order to be loyal to your dreams, vision and ...
The Other Forms Of Intelligence: A Motivational Article By Gbenga Adebambo
The Other Forms Of Intelligence: A Motivational Article By Gbenga Adebambo “I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft”- Bill Gates School rewards people for their memory. Life rewards people for their creativity, resilience, ability to network and ability to solve problems. School rewards caution; life rewards daring. Life exalts those who break the rules and set new ones. School supports the fact that we should all have a common approach to a problem; life requires diversified thought patterns to solve a problem. Life requires multiple points of view, schools only teach one! Being top of your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be at the top of life. The society makes us believe that it...
Mentoring Is The Highest Form Of Education!
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”-Zig Ziglar Hear this: Before you look for jobs, look for mentoring. When you run after money more than you run after mentoring, you will be poor! The problem of jobless graduates is not joblessness, it is lack of mentoring. Our greatest problem is not money but mentoring. We should stop looking for money and look for mentorship. Unknown to many degree holders, your earning increases with your learning and exposure. A year spent with a mentor is worth far more than a graduate degree followed by post graduate study! That mentor can reduce your learning curve by ten years for every year spent working and learning in his shadow. The earlier a person recognizes this concept, the more advance...
A Country That Rehabilitates Terrorists But Shoot And Kill Peaceful Protesters. We Will Never Forget!
A Country That Rehabilitates Terrorists But Shoot And Kill Peaceful Protesters. We Will Never Forget! “Those who make peaceful protest impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”- John F. Kennedy The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people. In the award winning and epic book written by George Orwell in 1945, “Animal Farm”, a group of farm animals revolt and establish their own society because they were tired of their servitude to man, only to be betrayed into worse servitude by their leaders, the pigs, whose slogan becomes: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” I may not be responsible for any leader that comes to the minds of the reader of this piece but I am in no doubt that Ge...
The Skill Revolution
“Skills matter more than degrees”- Elon Musk The basic truth of life is that the skills that are needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. One of our ‘afflictions’ in Africa is that we put so much premium on certificates, titles and degrees instead of acquisition of skills to solve problems. Hear this: graduates that cannot solve problems, no matter how much certificates and degrees they’ve accumulated, are liabilities to their communities. A college degree is no longer the main ticket to success: skills and continuous learning matter the most. The future of work won’t be about college degrees; it will be about job skills. The skill revolution has already started, and it is just a matter of time before i...
Mike Tyson: You Can Be A Genius In Your Career But A Financial Imbecile!
Mike Tyson: You Can Be A Genius In Your Career But A Financial Imbecile! Hear this: You can be an academic genius but a financial imbecile! You can be a graduate and still be financially illiterate. Likewise, you can be uneducated and employ graduates because of your great financial skills. Academic qualification is different from financial sense. I have seen a man working as a personal driver building his own house while his boss was still living in a rented apartment. This explains why we have more ‘illiterates’ as landlords and graduates as tenants! Your financial future will put a great demand on your financial intelligence. Your financial habits, and not necessarily your degrees and certificate, will determine whether you will be rich or perpetually poor. Many graduates don’t have fin...
The Ikorodu Bois: Never Wait For A Perfect Condition
Edmund Burke once said, “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” Most times the little we think is not necessary may turn out to be the key to our breakthrough. The greatest hindrance to destiny fulfillment is waiting around for a perfect condition. Wesley Snipes once wrote on his twitter handle: “Some people pray for cake but when the Almighty gives them eggs, oil, butter, batter, a pan and an oven, they get frustrated and leave the kitchen”. Maturity is the ability to stop waiting for perfect things and instead make do with what we have. Start wherever you are with whatever you have to make impact in your community. The Ikorodu Bois, a Nigerian online comedy group made up of a group of Nigerian boys have become social media sensations by ...
People That Will Make Maximum Impact In Life Make Minimum Excuses
PEOPLE THAT WILL MAKE MAXIMUM IMPACT IN LIFE MAKE MINIMUM EXCUSES. “Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure”-Don Wilder and Bill Rechin In life, the winning side has result while the losing side has excuses. Champions make adjustments, not excuses. Until we cultivate the habit of living above our excuses, we will continue to live inferior lives. George Washington Carver said, “99% of failures comes from those who have a habit of making up excuses.” In order to influence your generation, you will need to quit excuses to live a life of impact; quit making excuses to live the life that you want. Excuses will always make you feel better at the present but makes your future bitter! It is easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success. So many people, by...
Character Matters More Than Degrees And Skills
15.4Kshares 0 15.4K 0 0 0 0 0 Character Matters More Than Degrees And Skills “A bad character is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it”-Zig Ziglar You can never get through your degrees and certificates what you should get through character! I have come to realize in life that until we give the right character its place in our life, we will always end up bankrupt regardless of how buoyant we are in every other areas of life. Peter Schutz, the former CEO of Porsche once said, “Hire character. Train skill”. Skills needed to meet needs vary in different organizations but all organization do not vary in their need for people with good character. I may not really know the skills that will be in high demand in the next 20 years, but one thing that I know is that there is no...
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