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The “HOPE” Experiment :

During a brutal study at Harvard in the 1950s, Dr. Curt Richter placed rats in a pool of water to test how long they could tread water.

On average they'd give up and sink after 15 minutes.

But right before they gave up due to exhaustion, the researchers would pluck them out, dry them off, let them rest for a few minutes - and put them back in for a second round.

In this second try - how long do you think they lasted?

Remember - they had just swum until failure only a few short minutes ago...

How long do you think?

Another 15 minutes?

10 minutes?

5 minutes?

No!

60 hours!

That's not an error.

That's right! 60 hours of swimming.

The conclusion drawn was that since the rats BELIEVED that they would eventually be rescued, they could push their bodies way past what they previously thought impossible.

I will leave you with this thought:

If hope can cause exhausted rats to swim for that long, what could a belief in yourself and your abilities, do for you?

Don't you ever give up on your life and business...

Bawal:
Straight to the point: Truly marrying a beautiful/sexy wife has its own challenges. My wife is to beautiful and sexy that we have se.x almost on daily basis or interval of two days and I don't like such. Bedides,she is too good in bed as well as love se.x. One may ask ,does it mean I(we) can't control myself (ourselves), definitely I try as much as I can but to no avail. Her facial look,sexy fair complexion body, let alone wearing mini skirt, boxers,or seeing her unclothedness will drive me to irresistible urge that no matter how I quench my manhood, it is out of control.

Several times I tried to stay away from her and hold myself but several time it failed. It's too much on me and that's not how it suppose to be and takes more of my focus.Se.x is not food. Even if we have misunderstanding atimes the way couple may have and I will use that opportunity and vow that I won't make love with her for some time, unfortunately even that same day I made such decision is same day we will make love. Atimes I will reason should we stay apart to reduce this kind urge.

Please I need advise on how I can reduce the rate of this frequent love making.

Sit your wife down and discuss this with her... Communication is part of marriage!

Can we do 60 million?

MickzyDonald:
This forum is a Family itself, it has helped most of us in different perspectives, The credit goes to the Owner, so we can't all say we haven't learned anything since we've been on this forum, sometimes there might be UP's and DOWN's but the forum will always be part of my family...

I've learned to always be tolerant, never look down on anyone, always be cautious an so on...

So you can add yours so that others can also benefit and learn from it...

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Mynd44

OAM4J

Rocktation

farano

r231

Freiburger

Nairaland has increased my tolerance for insults... Above that is the special connections and friendships I have made here over time.
I have also struck some few good business deals on this forum as well.
Nairaland has also become my google of some kind for information.

rotimioluwamuyi:
I really need help and strategies to handle this matter. My wife sister came three weeks ago to live with us. She is 22 yrs. My problems now is her dressing mode which my wife is not careful about.

This lady always wear see-through singlets and night gowns. She has big breasts and always displaying them. I don't know how I will tell my wife to talk her sister to cover herself. She may feel bad that I'm attracted to her sister.

During the sallah holiday, I was with her alone because my wife don't holiday in her place of work, I have to leave the house and stay in the accommodation given to me in my place of work.

This morning, I carried my undies to wash, she crossed me and told me to give it to her to wash, the towel she tied because she was going to bathroom before was removing and showing her full breasts and she never worry about that.

Our marriage is just one year and I never cheated on my wife and she trusted me but her sister is really giving me emotional trauma. Can you imagine, yester night, my wife went to a programme, I was with her. So I called her around 8 pm that we should pray and go to bed. This lady came with a see-through night gown with a push up bra that put all breasts outside. Even her pant color was visible. I tried to control myself....

Even this morning, she came for prayer with the same gown and my wife did not caution her.....
How can I handle this matter?
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Speak to your wife to caution her sister ...

Sunnyshinylight:
I remembered a story of a dear friend, she was chatting with the boy friend, they were planning their wedding weeks away, the guy lived and worked abroad, Canada to be precised.


He was planning to transfer her over after the wedding, they have never had sex together, but they speaks regularly on phone and visual calls sometimes, because of work pressure, there was this day they were chatting, all of a sudden she said " I had sweet sex today with my new boy friend, oh the guy is so very sweet, honey I hope you will be sweeter than him"

Wow! He was done!

He asked, what? At this time he's already vibrant, what's? What, what?, She was busy laughing, having fun, wow, in his mind, he already broken the relationship, she wasn't aware, he hang up the phone, she was still laughing so hard, so hard that she didn't know he already hung up.

Because you see, she never did anything close to such, she's missing him and imagining how sweet he'd be when they have sex together, and so she used jokes to catch cruise.

When she came back to her self, she noticed the other end wasn't responding

She tried calling back, lines not reachable, for days, into weeks and months and years, till this very moment, she saw only pictures of his wife and children

Why did I remembered this, the way most of you reply and jests as if you can not control the thought before it ruins your entire life.

Wake up people, stupid thoughts has been destroying humans from the days of Cain and Abel.

A simple thought said " I will kill my brother today" and he accepted the thought made it his and executed the plan. Shame, what happened next? You know the story.


Someone in this forum tried poking me with stupid thought, read my reply


Before you speak out the vapour which came out of you, you could have flushed the enemy of our fight out, before the thought became yours.


Next time before you talk, think, tell yourself the truth, in every generation we have fighters and players and offenders and destroyers.

In your corrupted world you called it" I just dey play with you nau" oh yeah, but you also spoke your thought.


Learn how to bring every thought to the obedience of goodness, if you never spoke those thoughts, they remain just a vapour which flashes on your mind

Who are you??

That was an expensive joke... You are very right about the message you passed across.

prof2007:
Commuters on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were on Sunday stranded for several hours as a fallen container on the Long Bridge caused gridlock on the road.

It was gathered that the driver of a containerised truck moving outward Lagos lost control on the bridge around 3pm and the container fell and blocked the entire outward lane, causing gridlock for vehicles going out of Lagos. However, some impatient motorists drove against the traffic and blocked the Lagos-bound vehicles.

Officials of the FRSC and Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps were on ground to control traffic flow. Our correspondent learnt the container was later moved to one side of the road around 6pm by the response teams, but the backlog of traffic was slowly easing as of 8pm.

A motorist, Simeon Akpanyi, who lamented the many hours he spent in traffic, blamed the contractor handling reconstruction of the road, Julius Berger Plc, for the slow pace of work. He said, “I got to Kara area around 3pm and met traffic around Channels Road; I spent almost 20 minutes without any movement, so had to take the alternative route, heading for Fatgbems, and spent another 20 minutes there, till I was able to follow the untarred road down to Mikano.

“It was at Mikano I discovered there was a fallen containerised truck that barricaded the road and disrupted movement. I noticed a towing truck moving towards the scene, but as of the time I left, the container had not been lifted off the road. The traffic I experienced today is unwarranted, but as a result of panic driving, impatience on the side of the drivers by driving against traffic, there was traffic on both sides of the expressway.

“One of the issues we deal with on this Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is the slow pace of work by Julius Berger; we expected that by this time, they should have finished the work they are doing between Arepo and Wawa, which is taking almost forever. I normally spend 10 minutes from Berger to Arepo whenever there is no traffic, but today (Sunday), I spent over two and half hours on that stretch and it shouldn’t be.”

Another motorist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent he was weak by the time he got to his destination, as a result of the traffic. “There was an accident on the Long Bridge, where a container fell on the road, and it caused backlog of traffic from Berger, but when we got to Fatgbems, we had to follow the untarred road till we got to Arepo. We spent about 40 minutes on the earth road. The traffic caused a lot of weakness to my body by the time I got to where I was going and I even got there late as a result of the traffic.”

A passenger, who was travelling from Akure to Lagos, James Famori, lamented how the traffic disrupted his plans to get to his destination early. He said, “We met the traffic before Ibafo and it was at a standstill for one hour before it started moving at a slow pace. I had the intention of getting to Lagos early to rest and prepare for work tomorrow (Monday), but it truncated my plans when we met the traffic on the road.

“We spent about 4 hours in the traffic before we were able to get out of it. The traffic stressed a whole lot of us in the bus, because it was sunny and getting stuck in the traffic was just unbearable, but we thank God we were able to get out of it; it was when we got to the Long Bridge that we discovered it was a container that fell on the road that caused the traffic.”

Confirming the incident, Ogun State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Ahmed Umar, said the container was pushed to the side pending arrival of a crane that would take it off the road. He stated, “There was a lone accident involving a containerised truck; the accident was caused by excess speed on the part of the driver, who lost control and blocked the road outward Lagos. It is a fully laden container and is causing a lot of obstruction.

“The drivers of these trucks enjoy excess speed and they are causing a lot of unrest and obstruction, and it is indeed a quite worrisome situation, but we have been able to get partial clearance of the obstruction and vehicles are now passing.

“We are still on the operation of the total clearance but in the meantime, we have created an alternative road for drivers and the container has been pushed to the side pending arrival of the crane to remove it from the road and it is based on this that we are going to sustain our operation against the menace of these articulated vehicles and containers. Anybody involved in excess speed will be dealt with.”

SOURCE (abridged): https://punchng.com/stranded-commuters-lament-as-fallen-container-causes-gridlock-on-lagos-ibadan-expressway/

These days, something must happen to cause girdlock on that expressway...it has become a norm.

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This is the best time for other drivers who refused to join the strike to make more money... It is a choice to be a bolt/uber driver and not by force. The drivers are not employees.

Inasmuch as i do not consider him wrong for coming out to clear his position with Eedris... I consider it inappropriate to share his phone number publicly (As a SAN, he should know better).

1Mozinga:
Hello People. What do you think are the reasons for the incessant fail and fall of crowdfunding Projects in Nigeria? Either they don't pay investors or they go incommunicado. .... And what do you think are the solutions to these problems.
The funding options for startups and businesses in Nigeria are very few( traditional bank loans with exorbitant interest rate and government fundings are not reliable.) So crowdfunding remains a very viable option/vehicle for raising money for entrepreneurs in this part of the world. Let's learn from the failures of others and be better for it.... Let's interact and be better for it.


What is crowdfunding??

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

Most of them fail because they refuse to place a cap on the limits of funds to be received from investors. This leads to having an excess of idle funds on which returns are to be paid to the investors.

The poster above me is pathetic... He/she needs Deliverance from his mindset.

Tuchel is really proving his credentials right in Chelsea... He is doing well.

readone25:
good day great people of nairaland,pls I need your help,pls which business can I start with 110k in Ibadan that can guarantee me 500 to 1000 naira profit daily,pls

Online business or real-time venture?

Since you both are not yet married, make up your mind if you can live with it or not...

I wonder why humans can't just agree to live in peace...

We were crossing an expressway after buying stuffs from the market. The polythene bag i carried gave way in the middle of the expressway. He literally stood in between me and an oncoming speeding vehicle for me not to get hit!

It costs little or nothing to start a war but, it costs millions to regain the peace which was once had for free...

Ghost worker...

It is well, the vaccination went wrong for her.

The situation in Chad is tensed right now...

This is pretty impressive...

This is terribly sad...

Compliant:
Where is the economy of my country heading to please?

South Africa: Rand 1= ₦79

Angola: 1Kwanza = ₦12

Botswana: 1Pula = ₦28

Cape Verde: 1Escudo = ₦8

Algeria: 1Dinar = ₦12

Egypt: 1Pound = ₦35

Eritrea: 1Nakata = ₦18

Ethiopia: 1Birr = ₦19

Ghana: 1Cedi = ₦56

Gambia 1 Dalasi = ₦9

Kenya: 1Shilling = ₦6

Liberia: 1Dinar = ₦8

Lesotho: 1Loti = ₦19

Libya: 1Dinar = ₦156

Morocco: 1Dirham = ₦176

Madagascar: 1Ariary = ₦14

Mauritius: 1Rupee = ₦16

Malawi: 1Kwacha = ₦21

Mozambique: 1Metical = ₦24

Namibia: 1Dollar = ₦32

Seychelles: 1Rupee = ₦22

Sudan: 1Pound = ₦42

Swaziland: 1Lilangeri = ₦19

Tunisia: 1Dinar = ₦150

Zambia: 1Kwacha = ₦28

Even the worst economies of Africa now have more valuable Exchange rate than us.
As at today $1 = ₦480?
€1 = ₦560?
£1 = ₦660?

₦1,000,000.00 is less than $2,100.00.....and some think that we have not reached the breakpoint??

Putin (Russia): Lawyer

Biden (America): Lawyer

Merkel (Germany): PhD Physical Chemistry

Xi Jinping (China): Chemical Engineering and Doctor of Law

Ghanian President: Doctorate holder

Buhari (Nigeria): WAEC not found

Yet, somebody wants a growing economy under this administration we re just playing is time to say Goodbye if we must tell ourselves the truth this country can't be Giant of Africa again.

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If all the money you make is in Naira... You are still operating in a local economy. It is easier to make $10 daily than make 4,000 naira daily in Nigeria!!!

Eeeya... He ought to know Nigerians are intolerant to such things as cross-dressing.

The severity of the hard life some children came into...

Believe their words at your own peril...

Danabu:
O understand that yomicracis lbadan choice for taxisabd very popular there. Can anybody tell me where and how I can get a good one in Ibadan? 08033313838 is my WhatsApp number.you can send pictures and prices.

There is one displayed for sale around oluyole extension... That is before you get to Bovas filling station at Aare.

Ukpaka:
Soludo commissions new security van aftermath of attack, tells others to wait till after his tenure
http://247ureports.com/2021/04/soludo-commissions-new-security-van-aftermath-of-attack-tells-others-to-wait-till-after-his-tenure/
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The security van was procured by Ihuekili village, Igboukwu in support of Governor Willie Obiano’s efforts at ensuring that Anambra remains the safest state in the country, despite recent security challenges.

Soludo who performed the ceremony during a Grand Civic Reception organized by the Ihuekili Progressive Union, IPU, Igboukwu, in honour of their illustrious son, Hon. Eche Ezeibe, the incumbent Chairman of Aguata Local Government Transition Committee, however did not mention the attack on him but rather showered abundant praises on the leaders of Ihuekili village for a well thought out programmes of procuring the security van and conducting a grand civic reception for their son.

Soludo means business in the forthcoming election... I hope he will perform well (If he wins the race).

Jokers! All that is important to us, is to watch entertaining football.

nurudeen181:
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I wonder how many years Nigeria has to catch up with basic technology .