I remember being younger and confused about why the “older people” were so interested in politics. I get it now o abeg

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The ultimate proof of intelligence lies in whether or not it can be translated into creating and/or managing wealth. Smart people eventually figure out that understanding money is non-optional.

I don’t believe in Bad luck.

If you landed your job before 2023, please lead with perspective and empathy when advising people in the current job market. They're in a different battlefield and failures are usually not from lack of trying.

unreasonable man Mastery of the core concepts; then ability to communicate them to both experts and laymen alike.

The #1 most important thing to understand about learning: Exposure is not skill. You can consume endlessly and not make any progress in your ability to produce. Happens all the time.

A semicolon is used instead of a comma and a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so -- remember FANBOYS) Instead of: I like coffee, but I don't drink it every day. you can write: I like coffee; I don't drink it every day.

When you identify people who are smarter than you, resist the urge to compete with them or prove you’re smarter. They really don’t care if you’re smarter than them. The dick-measuring contest distracts you from the opportunity to learn from them and become better. You fail to

The tragedy of passive consumption is not just lost time. It is also the gradual erosion of your appetite for more difficult, and more fulfilling, things.

One of my “go to” lines for years has been that the sign of success for a country isn’t that poor people drive cars, but that rich people ride the subway…

I’ll just sit on the floor and watch them 😭

If you never train retrieval, do not be surprised when you can't remember anything you supposedly learned.

If you want to really, really stay at the top and flawlessly eat in the financial services industry, you need to have a very solid knowledge and understanding across these four cardinals: ✑ Understanding macroeconomics ✑ Knowledge of finance ✑ Understanding how businesses

Be mad about your mornings. Mad about your routines. Mad about the life you're building. That kind of mad changes everything.

Game theory explains why working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system. Because a system is never truly broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not. Working harder

Guysssssss work on your public speaking skills. If it doesn’t change your life, you didn’t do it properly.

If someone influential inside a company is backing your CV, that’s even more reason to come prepared & blazing, like everything depends on it. Deliver a standout performance so their judgment is validated to HR and executives. Don’t slack, outperform every other candidate.

This is going to be a long thread. But I'll try to summarize. And I'll be br*tal a bit 🙃 First thing first is that, most people don't fail to build wealth 'cos they lack money. They fail 'cos of lack of framework. No plans at all. How do you go about this? Firstly, try to

It's actually very important that ambitious college kids be explicitly told that some prestige careers have low pay *by design* to reserve them for the wealthy, and if you aren't wealthy and want that career you had best believe really hard in it bc you will not be affluent