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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by gypsyking01: 9:09pm On Jan 06, 2019
Hardwork,focus and discovering yourself
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by hadjboy(m): 9:13pm On Jan 06, 2019
monimekaz:
I used to be this bright child but I must confess I have not achieved anything as an adult .Dreams are turning nightmares .They said we should get skills that certificate is not enough,got some IT skills etc but none is getting me close to my dream .My talent just there wasting ,depression setting and no one seems to believe in you anymore .It is heartbreaking.
Same pair of shoes...,irony of Life.
I do weep whenever I set my eyes on my old school's pictures like "this was real me"...sigh!!

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Nobody: 9:19pm On Jan 06, 2019
If one calls the OP illiterate now,he will take offence.
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by olawrite: 9:21pm On Jan 06, 2019
aboyaji:
Spiritual attribution to some natural happenings can't be much emphasized. I am a victim of all these aforementioned and a lot of friends I have are too.

Inhibition itself should not be ignored in this regard. Fear of the unknown, self constraints, very spiritual family background. All the listed play a very big role in a child's disposition.

Almost 3 of my friends are facing this same fate. Very brilliant, highly knowledgeable. I'm not exaggerating. They are all graduates with 2.1, 2.2 and all but nothing much on their side.

Is it English or laws of physics and mathematics and all Albert Einstein's notations we come this world for?

Is it watching other people's car zoom pass us or looking at big mansions and salivating that we come to see?

Is it solving university problems for undergraduates and correcting every m]stakes and impressions and following the main Oga behind like dog in a bid to get daily chopins like 1k or 2 we come for?

Most times, it's the extroverts that make it in this world. Parents should balance the weighing scale they use while raising a child.

Thanks.


Thanks man...
This is nothing but a case of reality, what is happening in our immediate enviroment.

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by olawrite: 9:23pm On Jan 06, 2019
monimekaz:
I used to be this bright child but I must confess I have not achieved anything as an adult .Dreams are turning nightmares .They said we should get skills that certificate is not enough,got some IT skills etc but none is getting me close to my dream .My talent just there wasting ,depression setting and no one seems to believe in you anymore .It is heartbreaking.
Gentle man, you need to pray, get closer to people who are successful in your field of expertise. Try out feelancing
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Nobody: 9:26pm On Jan 06, 2019
ikorodureporta:
Have you seen someone you knew back then in your elementary & secondary schools who was among the top students; brilliant & very promising, but now living in their past glory?

Some of them got to the university, struggled out, & for years they ain't got any meaningful job, whereas those average to poor performers then are doing very well with family, cars & houses..

This could be as a result of their star being blocked!
When a child is seen with such a promising talent, a number of people will be envious: friends, family members, neighbors, especially if that child lives in a populated face-me-i-face-you compound. Others that didn't show those early signs of greatness were never attacked, & they're still living their normal lives...just as the king saw the star of Jesus Christ & never wanted him alive
Parents should ensure that their 'gifted' children are adequately protected:
* Stop bragging with your neighbors or family members of how intelligent your child is
* Hard work should be rewarded. Any of your child doing exceptionally well should be encouraged with gifts
* Pray for your child. They also require your blessings of protection

If you are in this category of adults, just know that your life has been hacked, & you need a divine intervention



this talks about my vice prefect. he got hacked after his sec school. he impregnated a girl and that was how he was settled.
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by TEYA: 9:27pm On Jan 06, 2019
monimekaz:
I used to be this bright child but I must confess I have not achieved anything as an adult .Dreams are turning nightmares .They said we should get skills that certificate is not enough,got some IT skills etc but none is getting me close to my dream .My talent just there wasting ,depression setting and no one seems to believe in you anymore .It is heartbreaking.
Don't give up. Keep trying. I have a similar story. The challenge with some of us is we don't try other options, we fix our gaze in one direction and refuse to adapt.

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by franchasng: 9:36pm On Jan 06, 2019
CreepyBlackpool:
There's no such thing as star being blockedsad

no village people involved.


He stopped reading and started failing, simple as that!
Shutup! Some things are beyond your stupid understanding, this poster made pure sense.

While growing up, I was the brightest star from nursery to higher institution level, I graduated as 3rd best graduating student. I got offers, and sometimes to last stage interviews in top oil firms and blue chip firms, at the end, I won't hear from the HR departments again for no reason after excellent performance at interviews.

I never failed any job aptitude text or exam, Mobil, chevron, total, nlng, shell, Schlumberger, DHL, NNPC, globacom, NBC, just think of any top firm u know, I passed their aptitude test and interviews, and some I stopped at aptitude test no hearing from HR again.

People I was better than back in school got good jobs, mine was different.

If not for the excess star and favor from God Almighty, I may have ended up a pauper begging others but my star is too much for enemy to stop, they only delayed my progress but couldn't stop it entirely cos I later found my blessing in self development and entrepreneurship and today, I am a startup company owner with greater potentials by the awesome grace of God.

So not everything you argue or try to act western when u are born black monkey in a black African nation filled with wickedness.

You better wake up and embrace your God before enemies use your life to play ludo.

If your parents are rich, its not a guarantee that u won't suffer cos I have lots of people that their parents used to be rich while growing up but today, they are struggling, so open your eyes on time and stop arguing stupidly undecided

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by KardinalZik(m): 9:37pm On Jan 06, 2019
CreepyBlackpool:
There's no such thing as star being blockedsad

no village people involved.


He stopped reading and started failing, simple as that!

This is all you can say when your whole life revolves around a fixed paradigm, "reading=success".

FYI, the Op isn't talking about school.
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by CreepyBlackpool: 9:41pm On Jan 06, 2019
franchasng:
Shutup! Some things are beyond your stupid understanding, this poster made pure sense.

While growing up, I was the brightest star from nursery to higher institution level, I graduated as 3rd best graduating student. I got offers, and sometimes to last stage interviews in top oil firms and blue chip firms, at the end, I won't hear from the HR departments again for no reason after excellent performance at interviews.

I never failed any job aptitude text or exam, Mobil, chevron, total, nlng, shell, Schlumberger, DHL, NNPC, globacom, NBC, just think of any top firm u know, I passed their aptitude test and interviews, and some I stopped at aptitude test no hearing from HR again.
olodo own your sh!t.

accept resposibilty for your failures and quit blaming village people that give no fvcks about your pathetic existence!
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by franchasng: 9:43pm On Jan 06, 2019
monimekaz:
I used to be this bright child but I must confess I have not achieved anything as an adult .Dreams are turning nightmares .They said we should get skills that certificate is not enough,got some IT skills etc but none is getting me close to my dream .My talent just there wasting ,depression setting and no one seems to believe in you anymore .It is heartbreaking.
Don't just quit, IT skills is not enough cos it seems u got the IT skills hoping to use it to secure a good job, there is no enough job in Nigeria and the few good jobs, the connected Nigerians are taken them up and fixing their people.

You need to embrace business.

Remove pride and shyness, enter street, find anything sellable and start to sell it asap. It doesn't matter what it is, just find anything that people need a lot, whatever it is, go into reselling it without shame.

Trading saved a lot of Nigerians and Africans.

Trading and selling are the fastest ways to become financially successful in Nigeria and Africa and anywhere in the world.

Forget your graduate level, assume you are not a graduate and hustle street wise like non graduates. If you are Igbo, it will be easy for you, if not, it won't be so easy but still try okay

God in His infinite mercy will change your story before 2020 if you work diligently in the things I suggested above without pride. Go and prosper, God have heard your cries and seen your tears, I release you tonight to your destiny.

Whatever the enemy snatched from you, God of 7th hour will restore it for you and you will be like they that dream. Cry no more.

Just that I have lots of projects like this I have taken up, I would have added yours, but let me see how it goes, join me in prayer too, once things pick up more like I project this year, I am going to help as many nairalanders as I can carry to get started in life, God please help me

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by CreepyBlackpool: 9:48pm On Jan 06, 2019
ozoneymcm:
Do you know me?
should I?
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by pressplay411(m): 9:49pm On Jan 06, 2019
Uyi168:
And we have been praying these prayers for aeons now..
Na where we dea, we still dea..
Abegii

Please, don't lose faith in prayer.
The truth is every problem in the physical has a spiritual undertone.
But are you born again?
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Vello(m): 9:56pm On Jan 06, 2019
CreepyBlackpool:
There's no such thing as star being blockedsad

no village people involved.


He stopped reading and started failing, simple as that!
Dottard!
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by monimekaz(m): 9:59pm On Jan 06, 2019
franchasng:
Don't just quit, IT skills is not enough cos it seems u got the IT skills hoping to use it to secure a good job, there is no enough job in Nigeria and the few good jobs, the connected Nigerians are taken them up and fixing their people.

You need to embrace business.

Remove pride and shyness, enter street, find anything sellable and start to sell it asap. It doesn't matter what it is, just find anything that people need a lot, whatever it is, go into reselling it without shame.

Trading saved a lot of Nigerians and Africans.

Trading and selling are the fastest ways to become financially successful in Nigeria and Africa and anywhere in the world.

Forget your graduate level, assume you are not a graduate and hustle street wise like non graduates. If you are Igbo, it will be easy for you, if not, it won't be so easy but still try okay

God in His infinite mercy will change your story before 2020 if you work diligently in the things I suggested above without pride. Go and prosper, God have heard your cries and seen your tears, I release you tonight to your destiny.

Whatever the enemy snatched from you, God of 7th hour will restore it for you and you will be like they that dream. Cry no more.

Just that I have lots of projects like this I have taken up, I would have added yours, but let me see how it goes, join me in prayer too, once things pick up more like I project this year, I am going to help as many nairalanders as I can carry to get started in life, God please help me

Thank you so much sir
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by aboyaji(m): 10:02pm On Jan 06, 2019
Ozkar:
yes, opinion not fact. If you state opinions like they are facts, the least you can do is back them up.

There are more introverts in the top 10 richest list, yet extroverts are the ones that make it in the world. Well done sir.
remind me, are there Nigerians in the top 10 list?

There are places where things work than others. If you're an introvert in Nigeria and wish to vie positions with others in Nigeria, you'll be stamped and trampled on.

I use myself as example so much because, I'm facing life in its full capacity.

I'm now into pneumatic engineering. An apprentice in his 29. I'm facing life squarely because I'm the autobigrapher of my life. I'm pushing all angles to learn a skill or two. I don't want to give flimsy excuses to my unborn kids and the living family why I have not made it till this moment. I'm still squatting in my bro's house. This my bro didn't go to university but has a two bedroom clean house that reeks of opulence. He hustles for real. Has his car and married with two kids. He's an extrovert to the core. As I'm typing, we're at a bar and I'm finding it hard coping with wild life or this type of lifestyle due to inhibition. It pulls me down and I fight it with whatever strength I have. The inhibition started from home training.

But talk about business sense, whatever one can do to get money, I'm always alert and alive to churn out a handful of lists.

Different strokes for different folks.

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Martinez19(m): 10:04pm On Jan 06, 2019
You people should stop this nonsense, very brilliant children become shadows of themselves, academically for various reasons:

1) hard drug addiction.

2) alcohol addiction.

3) porn and masturbation addiction -- also a time wasting addiction.

4) naivety and bad friends. Naivety makes kids in school, especially in the university, try to belong and they get carried away by vanity and being in vogue. As a result, they lose focus and instead of thinking about what's important and building their future, they get caught in living fly and high not knowing that school won't last forever and what's in vogue today would be tomorrow's rubbish. Bad friends too can cause one to lose focus in the way I described and lead one into cultism and other vices.

5) studying the wrong course in the university. A fish cannot climb a tree.

6) no inspiration; motivation to study and not discovering their passion

Please OP, the instances of children being a shadow of themselves academically is a serious issue and depending on what the cause is, it can be traumatic and devastating to the parents of these children. Please, this situation is critical that only realistic solutions should be applied. Do not spiritualise it.

It should be noted that academic brilliance does not equal financial success --- that's common sense. How can passing WAEC with straight As mean that you would get a job, especially in this Nigeria? How does it mean that you would be like Otedola? I don't blame you, I blame our society for propagating this myth of academic success equaling financial success, it doesn't happen in all cases. People should stop this entitlement, the universe doesn't owe anyone anything. Education is to educate the mind. If your field of study is applicable and marketable such that you can get a job, good for you. Mtewwwww.
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Nobody: 10:06pm On Jan 06, 2019
I will share this yoruba proverb : E ni ti ko ba mo biti egbe tin la a sare ku ni, =meaning : person who doesn't know where he/her mate make it, will run to death. That's my comment,i reserve the rest.

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by ikorodureporta: 10:08pm On Jan 06, 2019
GeorgeTheCoder:


This article was written by an idiot.

Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by tutuonye: 10:13pm On Jan 06, 2019
Buhari the Mumu and illiterate with an IQ of near zero is today presiding over d smartest Nigerian scientist and most brilliant academic as president in Nigeria. Whatever a fate. Op is not far from d truth believe him or not. I will have mercy on who I will have mercy said the Lord.

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by fweshdisney: 10:15pm On Jan 06, 2019
In the words of j.cole.....A's can't stop strays..

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Sarang(f): 10:19pm On Jan 06, 2019
CreepyBlackpool:
There's no such thing as star being blockedsad

no village people involved.


He stopped reading and started failing, simple as that!

Do you mind op.. star my foot
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Sarang(f): 10:22pm On Jan 06, 2019
aboyaji:
Spiritual attribution to some natural happenings can't be much emphasized. I am a victim of all these aforementioned and a lot of friends I have are too.

Inhibition itself should not be ignored in this regard. Fear of the unknown, self constraints, very spiritual family background. All the listed play a very big role in a child's disposition.

Almost 3 of my friends are facing this same fate. Very brilliant, highly knowledgeable. I'm not exaggerating. They are all graduates with 2.1, 2.2 and all but nothing much on their side.

Is it English or laws of physics and mathematics and all Albert Einstein's notations we come this world for?

Is it watching other people's car zoom pass us or looking at big mansions and salivating that we come to see?

Is it solving university problems for undergraduates and correcting every m]stakes and impressions and following the main Oga behind like dog in a bid to get daily chopins like 1k or 2 we come for?

Most times, it's the extroverts that make it in this world. Parents should balance the weighing scale they use while raising a child.

Thanks.

Please don't bring introvert and extrovert stuff into this.. Where you born rich? At least 95 percent of people born rich will always be rich and same applies to poor. Only few people manage to scale out of poverty and that takes planning, hardwork and smartness. And for God's sake their are some dumb introverts as well
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by aboyaji(m): 10:27pm On Jan 06, 2019
Sarang:


Please don't bring introvert and extrovert stuff into this.. Where you born rich? At least 95 percent of people born rich will always be rich and same applies to poor. Only few people manage to scale out of poverty and that takes planning, hardwork and smartness. And for God's sake their are some dumb introverts as well
check well. I said MOST. And not all.
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by franchasng: 10:27pm On Jan 06, 2019
monimekaz:


Thank you so much sir
welcome my brother

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by franchasng: 10:33pm On Jan 06, 2019
Sarang:


Please don't bring introvert and extrovert stuff into this.. Where you born rich? At least 95 percent of people born rich will always be rich and same applies to poor. Only few people manage to scale out of poverty and that takes planning, hardwork and smartness. And for God's sake their are some dumb introverts as well
That guy you quoted made some valid points.

It is not entirely good for a child to be raised being introvert. Extroverts tend to make it faster in life during adulthood than most introverts and its because extroverts learn to mix up with life and overcome real life challenges faster than introverts.

Even in girl child, extrovertic girls get married to more promising men than introvertic girls who confine themselves in the house without mixing up and making meaningful male friends.

And not all rich kids end up rich, I have some as mated who are struggling today while the ones born poor and in average families are very successful today.

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by ikorodureporta: 10:33pm On Jan 06, 2019
Denikayan:
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You watch too much Nollywood movies and stayed too long in the village

Is this counseling or religious preaching, either of both, you are completely off point.


Devil, spirit, life hacked, gifts and sort of gibberish!

I know that other factors could lead to a drop in one's career, but I'm examining the spiritual side. That's why it's under d religion section, inspired by today's Gospel Reading by my priest.
Have you ever heard of the spirit of rejection?
You may be brilliant, smart etc, but get the opportunity let's see. That's the logic
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by MChaze25(m): 10:43pm On Jan 06, 2019
Success is what you call it.
For some people in this country, pushing drugs in Malaysia and cashing out is success.
For some Yahoo is success.
For some too, a job of 150k salary or 250k is complete success.
The real success is you developing your own business and minding it till it grows to global recognition.
Africans rarely define success.
Some will call Bubu a success but is he?

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Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Kira290(m): 10:46pm On Jan 06, 2019
monimekaz:


Good at HTML/CSS ...elementary JavaScript/Php ..Good with Photoshop /Coreldraw (graphic design) ..
I understand how to create database with SQL ...I can handle WordPress quite well .

See, I'm currently struggling to set up my linux vps.

Can you fix it?

I will pay.
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Nobody: 10:55pm On Jan 06, 2019
sad sad sad sadThese people are making me scared of my future.
Since life ALWAYS turn out this way for this category of kids,, what is my hope??
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by 1Natty(m): 11:03pm On Jan 06, 2019
God help us
Re: When A Bright Intelligent Child Becomes A Struggling Adult by Sarang(f): 11:05pm On Jan 06, 2019
alphawg:


I pray you'll never believe!!


I just pray you'll never jam some experiences that'll make you believe!!!

Because you keep believing.. it keep happening

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