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What are you doing?  

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You need this gist-ful hangout with Wale Davies

Made It Here Podcast · Episode 3 - Wale Davies

Episode 3 of the "Made It Here" podcast: 
"Wale Davies, popularly known as Tec and also one half of the rap duo, Show Dem Camp; opens up in this conversation and shows a side to him very few know. He takes us through growing up in Lagos, schooling in Dublin and the UK, moving to Amsterdam and coming back to Nigeria and doing music. This conversation is a gem and there are lots of lessons and anecdotes in listening to Wale tell his truths. Enjoy."

ALL THE EPISODES ARE HERE at MIHpodcast.com hosted by Kelo.   

I just found out about it, and now I have listened to four full interviews (out of twenty) so far.  

How about you?  Which one(s) did you choose to try first, and why?  

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What could be better than #winning ?

Good question.

Studies show that increased salaries are not making people happier https://t.co/irUL4PbLGY

— xoNecole (@xonecole) January 11, 2019

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You Can

Baby steps. 

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Is anything wrong with this picture?

57 years after "independence", a white man supervises Nigerian subordinates as they work on a road repair project in Lekki, Lagos,Nigeria pic.twitter.com/JhwaIo5oEC

— Ike Anya (@ikeanya) July 4, 2017

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Tell Me Your Dream

He travelled across the world and asked:

Bonus: 
You tell me your dream, and I'll tell you mine - is a classic song and jazz favourite.  

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Bonus 2:
You have to see this 4-minute clip of life in Nigeria. It would seem that the traveller saw everything. Almost.  ?

But WHAT is success?

1. The effort is the prize. 
I've always loved this quote:

Source: popular

In the end the great truth will have been learned: 

that the quest is greater than what is sought, 

the effort finer than the prize - 

or rather, that the effort IS the prize - 

the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigour of the game. 

- Benjamin Cardozo

2. Chill.  Don't target success directly. 
I screen-grabbed an 'obliquity' quote just now from - of all places - a business course online.
I didn't know business education had time for the warm-and-fuzzy. 

Source: Managing the Company of the Future, Coursera + Julian Birkinshaw @ LBS

Don't aim at success.  

The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.  

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, 

and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.  

- Victor Frankl

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A Potential Lifesaver

How to deal with burnout,
in Awake (and JW.org) Magazine September 2014

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Think Agric

First thing on Monday mornings, 9:30 am on the radio: 99.3 NigeriaInfo , Oluwaseun hosts the inspiring programme Think Agric.
This morning I almost cried to hear the vision of the guests for Nigerian agric-driven dignity and prosperity.
The programme is rerun on Friday evenings too, in case you miss it. 

Meanwhile, here's an introduction to Agricultural transformation in Nigeria, by a young lady named Tola Sunmonu who I've showed on upnaira before.  Please check it out (Tola Sunmonu: Agriculture - Nigeria's food for thought)

Other really important stuff:
Last night, we won at AFCON.  Oh how wonderful.  Nigeria, that didn't even qualify last year, slayed the giants, chickens, and eagles, and emerged the champions.