Unstuff Your Head, Read More Productively
5 tips that help you profit more from your reading lists. I grew up in rural Nigeria where books are scarce. I was well past my sixth birthday before I learned to read. Afterwards, and…
Keeping the Hope – Because Your Sun Will Yet Rise Again
Hope is the sure anchor for your outstanding tomorrows. Barely three years after I bought the Dell notebook, its internal battery packed up. Getting a replacement was more challenging than getting water in a desert.…
Success Insights From a Late Night Speech
A handful of lessons from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Yale University’s 2019 Class Day Speech. It was late Sunday night. Both of us have been busy from late the previous night. The early hours of the…
Being Perfect Is Not a Viable Destination and That’s Okay
And other lessons from Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception In The Icarus Deception, author Seth Godin challenged the two conventional wisdom — don’t aim too high and don’t aim too low either. The account of the ancient…
While Excellence is Beckoning to You
25 rules to mastery in your calling As a reader, you’ve certainly heard of the wit, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” While in middle school, I couldn’t bring myself to read some books…