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Whilst this is a great initiative from our own queentessential entrepreneur, Abdul Samad. I see someone who's trying to gain access to Niger Market. You may not understand this but that's the reality.

Let's see how far we get with this. Time shall tell..

You have alot to learn about how company corporate and organizational structure are done, most especially at the level where you are operating from different sectors and industries.

I can give you access to a group where conversation like these are done, with tenacity and focus, you will get to grasp how this things are done and also build your business lingo.

Leave me a mail @ talk2bobugee@gmail.com

Brb

makydebbie:
Anyone here using Showmax to watch?

I’m unable to use my Showmax account.

I have used Showmax on my mobile device, but quit the App when I found Netflix has better offer, even when they charge almost the same amount. I hope they must have improved on their system.

Thank you very much for this wonderful message and may God bless you abundantly with more wisdom and knowledge to share more. It truely bless my soul.

One of the things we battle with as Christain is the enemy called FEAR! Which usually disguise itself in different ways like doubt, unbelieve and more.

I pray that God will give us the strength to believe and trust wholely in his supremacy and to know that he's the only one who can redeem us beyond men's expectations.

More details. Like Venue, nature of the seminar and price range..

You are smart!

placeofallure:
Yeah! I remember my job hunting days. I was part of a two-week training, a prerequisite for joining the insurance firm. The training was tough and challenging. At the end we would write an exam to determine who gets picked. During the training, you'd see a lot of foolish or unnecessary questions asked by youths who wanted to show off, some would even make more stupid assertions like that. Me, wetin concern me? I no dey ask questions and I no dey ever contribute or suggest anything.

After writing the exams, the coordinator who also doubled as our trainer called me to his office the next day. He asked me, "How did you manage to come tops of the class when you never said a word since you all came here?" He said he thought I never understood anything that was going on since I was a laid-back kind of. I smiled. This one doesn't know me. All through my school life, I was like that.

I never did pick up the job eventually despite being number one in the training. The man wanted sex in exchange for a slot, with a promise to facilitate my rise in the company by handing me ready-made clients. I refused.

Bravo, you have my respect for this single act. I cherish ladies who are highly determined to live by their values. What 8s yours will come your way. But keep the secret with you.

Yesterday, I published this post and was surprised how much engagements the post got. ICYMI, you can review the post via the link below. https://www.nairaland.com/7242277/easy-ways-identify-intelligent-people

So, today I want to write on a very interesting topic. Topic which I consider you will find to be helpful. It's more like a sequel to the previous post but this is much more detailed and precise than the former.

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1. Always view your life as a series of projects.

Most people view their life in terms of basic stages: Graduation > Career > Marriage > Children > Old Age. Well, there’s nothing wrong with that approach If you are comfortable with that, but a lot of your potential will be left unrealized.

Consider viewing your life this way: Internalize a habit > Learn a new skill > Create a prototype > Self-reflection > Experiment > Learn another skill. Or something similar. Your growth will be at least 3x faster than your peers. You can achieve so much more.

Projects can be any work, craft or skills you want to work on. You can create individual or group projects. Pick something you’re interested in. It’s even better if the demand out there is huge.

When I first decided to go for my apprenticeship service, I thought the biggest reward was to see myself making money. Well, I had an even bigger reward - seeing myself grow. I hope you will have the same experience too.

Being able to self-direct a project and work on it say a lot about yourself. Now, here’s the question: Are you willing to take action?

2 Construct your own mental library Here’s how:

Read a wide variety of non-fiction books, such as chemistry, philosophy, accounting, business, investing and mindset to build up your own mental library. The point of doing so is not to make you a nerdy bookworm, but to familiarize yourself with steep learning curve and the discomfort of entering uncharted territory.

Don’t worry if you can’t remember all the content - you don’t have to. The process of understanding the context at the moment is more important than remembering it. Information is abundant, the processing ability is scarce. After all, you’re a living human, not a pendrive.

I suggest reading books because it helps you cultivate focus. Anyway, you may also learn things from encyclopedia, education websites or YouTube channel. There are many great resources online. Just remind yourself to practice unwavering focus while learning online - the cost of distraction is huge.

What to learn? Self-learn topics that interest you. I am an business administration graduate, and I self-learn data science and machine learning online. While I’m far from being proficient at it, my thinking and reasoning ability have improved.

Don’t worry if you’re busy. Start small by doing this for 30 minutes a day. It would be great if you treat it as your hobby. In fact, that’s what I do. Do not interfere this process with short term profitability - we’re in for our long term benefits.




3 Challenge your own thinking.Here’s why:

According to my experience, we’re either improving or degrading. If we think we stagnate, we’re in fact degrading. And the best way to improve is to challenge ourselves.

Most people wait for the external circumstances to challenge them, but that’s not the best strategy. Be the one who challenges yourself. Become your own challenger. That’s how you raise your own bar, instead of depending on the benchmark set by people around you.

You can probably think about someone who seems to rise above the competition, enjoys doing his things and produces incredible results. I guess that’s simply because he doesn’t wait for the environment to challenge him.

In the past 7 days, I’ve challenged the way I balance discipline and flow, my understanding about capitalism and examined my morning rituals. I don’t go into the minute details here, but that’s literally what I did. I shared my insights of self-challenge with a friend yesterday, while we were driving around the town.

When you challenge yourself, you don’t have to announce to the world. Know your purpose. Growth happens internally, and improvement manifests externally. Don’t challenge yourself with the objective to impress people. Impress yourself instead. Over time, you’ll find challenging yourself fulfilling.


4 Experiment. Here’s what I mean:
We usually don’t succeed the first time we try. That’s the way it works. None of toddlers can walk smoothly at their first try. None of the entrepreneurs managed to build a multi-million/billion businesses at their first try, even if some of them tend to give you that impression. You get the point. I was stupid. I was naive.

I thought by preparing myself over and over again, I would execute something perfectly and achieve the grand results. HELL NO. It never works that way. I playfully laugh at myself whenever I reminisce about it.
But it doesn’t mean we don’t have to prepare. We still have to prepare. We still have to plan. We still have to equip ourselves with the right skill, mentality and team.

Then, experiment. Identify your variables. Fine-tune them. See what works best. Rinse and repeat. Experiment happens everywhere - in our daily life, businesses, relationships and of course the laboratories. For example, I’ve been experimenting different education styles and administrative process with my business. Over time, I produce better results.

The key is to experiment smartly. Don’t make foolhardy experiments. Resources are valuable, don’t burn all your resources prematurely. I believe you can see how conducting smart experiments make you smarter.


5 Spend time with people way smarter than you. Here’s why:
We are the average of five people we spend the most time with. Our subconscious is shaped by our surrounding, whether we admit it or not. Personally, I find this very true, even though I used to disbelieve it.
As long as you’re open-minded, smart (or wise) people pull you up to their standards. It’s a rather natural process - just like how spending time with calm people makes you calmer as well.
What if people around you aren’t as dedicated in personal development as you are? Spend time with great authors or mentors then. In other words, read or look for those people digitally.

To connect with mentors or high quality people, you basically have to do two things: be communicative and provide value. Give before you get. If you think you have nothing to give, upgrade yourself until you have something to give. For example, I’m writing here to attract like-minded people like you. English isn’t my mother tongue, Igbo language is. I practiced writing by myself until I can write smoothly here on nairaland.

You don’t have to passively accept anyone who enters your life. You have the power to choose your associations. Choose wisely.

If you can practice these 5 things well, you’ll probably become both smarter and wiser.

Perhaps I’ll make it into 10 someday.

Together we improve.

Cheers and happy reading.

Kingsleymax:
Please guys, am in need of legit ideas of business to invest in lagos, am new to the city, what profitable business should i venture into?

I don't mind learning it for some months, help a brother. Thank you.

Go to any commercial bank on Monday and seek to know what short investment options they have.

Although I would advise you put the money in a fix deposit account for little intwresr with your bank, while you hustle and understand how the city work. Don't get desperate and loose your money on a wrong investment that promise quick return.

Many have gone that way and get burnt. Don't try it.

Clint02:
What of me the reserved type, trying to become vocal. How do you think I go about that?

There's nothing wrong in being reserve. It should rather count to your advantage if you understand how to properly utilize the God given skill. Greater percentage of world leading billionaire are introvert...uncluding Dangote, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos etc.

It's not by accident. It's a skill many people want to acquire. Don't bother about you being reserve, seek to exploit the latent skill that goes with your nature.

CanadaOrBust:
Wrong. What is there to write in “skelewu”?
Most Davido songs are like that. What is there to write in “Fall”?

Perhaps, you are yet to understand how the music industry works. Most artist don't write their songs. They have team of well trained and sophisticated group of songs writers. Only few Nigerian artist writes their songs. Go figure right!

Juliearth:
Where is the lie?

Like begets like.

Other ways to tell are:
You would find screenshots of dictionary meanings and online captions on their phones, they move around with notepads and/or have them installed on their phones, they have an overly curious mind and like to associate with polymaths. As a matter of fact, anything short of being a polymath is a turn off for them. Ask them what they desire in their partners, they would dwell more on intellects rather than physical attributes.

I agree 100%!

lequama10:
intelligence is not by measure of the question you ask boss, you intelligent base on how decisive you are, and you can never be without proper level of knowledge, what makes a robot intelligence is the predictive analysis, making decision base on repetitive events... Acquiring knowledge and applying is simply intelligence... All the best to you oooo...

Don't you think we are still on the same page? Questionnairing is only but one reference point to how intelligent people acquires knowledge. There are many more other ways also.

Studies have shown that people who attended nursery school tends to be more disciplined and have the ability to finish what they started.

Same way kids who once lived or spent reasonable time with their grandparents during their formative years (3-7years) tend to be more naturally curious, environmentally conscious and aware and intelligent when grown up (18-27years)

Intelligence is a function of many things, questionnairing inclusive, but not exclusive.

onojaford:
A truly intelligent person (at his full or half potential) knows so many unrelated things. They also have a vast vocabulary (as a rule of thumb); so as you mention an obscure word, a truly intelligent person will almost know it. What is intelligence even? What you are nailing as intelligence, is not intelligence. It is called "Openness." And oh yes, it is a trait of intelligence but not as pivotal as your post asserts. Basely, intelligent has to do with how one processes information, and connect meaningful dots within a miraculous time frame or however. Intelligence is also different from learning, just as it is variable. One person may have literary intelligence, while another may have musical intelligence, or mathematical intelligence, while they are deficit in other areas. The overall kind of intelligence, which I suppose is what you meant, is gross intelligence - which can be called, "Common Sense." One may be high in common sense, but is not learned in any special field of knowledge. Potentially, they will learn faster and as well, if they are exposed because of the common sense they are endowed with.

Intelligence in its gross form, is what Common Sense is.

Beautiful comment. You have Just demonstrated to have one. But would you now say intelligence is innate or an acquired skills? If it's the latter, how then do you think one can be transformed from being a dollard to being smart?

CanadaOrBust:
You forgot to define “intelligent”. Example is Davido intelligent always coming up with hit songs? How about Ben Enwenwu coming up with great sculptures? China Achebe great novels. Are they intelligent?

Thank you for your contribution. I think I understand your points! For the record, there's a difference between talent and Intelligence. Talent is inate while intelligence comes with training.

The people which you mentioned are all talented people who was discovered on time and investment was made to develop and enhance their careers.

Take for instance, Davido which you mentioned is a very talented vocal musician just like many other Nigerians, he was spotted right on time, people with this understanding partnered with him and develop his career.

80% of Davido's songs are written by others. 30% of the revenue which comes from his music goes to his management team and that's how the industry works, most especially at the initial stage in their career, except for those you have the wherewithal to fund all their discretionary expenses from the outset.

There are many other more talented Nigerians who never had this understanding and how these things work and remain stucked.

This is one reason why I love this country. We don't look like what we are going through. What!? Damn! I love the vawulence.

My family!

Not married yet though, but my parents and siblings are the principal reason why I left home @18, two days immediately after my waec exam and dash out in to what has completely changed and revolutionalize the cause of my life and career.

2011, I set out with all the determination in my heart to conquer and break the jinx of poverty in our family.

I first searved 7 years of protracted and excruciating apprenticeship scheme, and later established my first business, now saw three of my immediate younger siblings through the universities. Employs nine(9) staff.

Set up business for mumsy, went back to University, got Bsc degree in business administration, now bought ticket from one of the leading private universities in Nigeria to pursue my MBA. Emerged 2021 most outstanding CEO of my industry.

Dreams do come true. To those who Believe, keep going for your dreams are valid. I turned 29 July 15th and I'm still planning ahead.

Johnlegacy57:
Wrong assessment.
I've been in different classes right from primary school to university level and I've discovered that the top students ask the least questions. Most of them go unnoticed.

Look beyond the classroom to have clear understanding of the what I mean. Academics is what happens in school, real education is what you get aside school.

khadaffi:
This your fiancee, how long has she been in the profession? Intelligent people don't get intelligent overnight. It takes years of practice, asking questions and sometimes the questions might appear foolish but the answerer have to understand what the student knows and understand why he/she is asking such questions before concluding it's a foolish question. I'm saying this due to my many years of experience as a teacher.

For example: the Bible says God created the world in six days and on the seventh day God rested.

The students question: Who was there to confirm that God built the world in six days

Teacher: That is a foolish question. You are trying to cause confusion when there is none

Conclusion: Who is foolish among the two? The teacher or the student?

I love this. How long have you been teaching?

omale88:
As you have pointed out,intelligent people are about their curiosity, the willingness to inquire about the unknown, intelligent people are able to sit have a view about a certain perspective directly from their point of view and them zoom out and look at it from an orbital point of view to have a proper understanding of a subject, any persons who do not limit their willingness to learn something new are considered intelligent, intelligent people do not think out of a box because with them the box doesn't exist,also they are aware that human potentials are limited by the society therefore they don't grade people by occupation rather by what you can offer,I can go on,this is the kinds of topics I love to see on naira land,this is good stay focused and remain curiouse for the greater good.

Your opinion is noble and I like the way you objectively put your comment, most especially the last line.

fman:
I don't ask questions (I meant be given a wrong answer).
It makes one vulnerable.
I rather observe and experiment.
And most importantly
I make empirical researches and
Findings.

How then do you make research if you don't ask questions? I think research comes from seeking to know what's not obvious to you by asking questions, either through Google, questionnaire, obsrsavation, introspection etc...

I can assure you that many people you see on nairaland got to discover her out of curiosity through questionnairing.

Fira09:
Why we visited Peoples Gazette’s office – Police



https://punchng.com/why-we-visited-peoples-gazettes-office-police/

Good move

Caleb17:
She couldn't bear the Trauma. The moment you are angry, punch the walls first for 70 times, after that, you can now launch the vauwulence.

I always bite my tongue as that usually help reset my consciousness.

Intelligent people are naturally curious people. They ask you questions upon questions.

When you answer, they ask you more. When you start using big words, they ask for clarification. When they can’t understand anything you’re saying, they ask for you to explain it to them as if they were a five-year-old.

When you say something intriguing, they write it down in their notebook or phone.
These people are not naturally more intelligent. They’re better learners which makes them more intelligent.

Why do they learn better? They’re genuinely curious and ask questions from a humble standpoint. I’ve met billionaires who’ve said, “explain it to me as if I were a five-year-old.”

This simple phrase has changed my life when it comes to learning. As soon as you stop asking questions, you stop learning. As soon as you stop writing down ideas, you forget them.

The hardest part of becoming intelligent is not bullshitting yourself about what you know; it’s being humble enough to ask questions. If you can do this, then people will see you as intelligent, too.

Let's hear from you, how do you personally identify intelligent people when you see them?

I hope He's going to face Rufai and Abati!

Those two men will drill him well. Can't miss the interview for any reason.

SimpleGuy001:
Always trying to justify sin. Go read your bible

Grow up kiddo.

Religion is still having a toll on your pysch.

Religion is man made, Bible was written by man to control the affairs of Christains. God has no religion. Even your pastors know this but won't tell you because he wouldn't want to lose his flocks.

When last did your pastor mounted the pulpit to preach against premarital sex? That's to show you how woke the world is becoming and how those Hidden knowledge is coming to the fore. Stop deluding yourself.

Okoroawusa:
Who is this David Hundeyin I keep hearing about?

His surname sounds like ' Nwude ehi " meaning " Catch cow " in Igbo language.

Chai, Okoro awusa!

SimpleGuy001:
With due respect, please keep your opinion to your self. Stop trying to justify nonsense, premarital sex is sin, avoid it.


Always trying to justify nonsense to suit their narratives

Funny how what's worrying fanatic religious Nigerians are things like whether premarital sex is a sin or not. All these things you see are the offshoot of poverty.

emmanuelewumi:
Outperformed in terms of what? Is market share, earning growth, profit margin, profitability, dividend growth, return on invested capital.

This exactly is the same question I wanted to ask.

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