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I disagree with this. Reason why most intelligent kids fail to translate their intelligence to sucess in their adulthood Is because they grew to become over confident in their intelligence believing it will automatically birth sucesss for them, which in most cases doesn't turn out so

Mcslize:
Exactly. I don't really believe anyone can block one's star. Everyone carries his/her own individual grace, star and luck in life from God. And I don't think anyone else, just anyone can take it from one.

Many day to day living factors can be responsible for one performing badly either in studies or in one's career. And that shouldn't be linked to anything spirituality.

Yes , you might not believe but I pray you never fall victim........ What you know is now, what happens next few mins after you don't.

Question is how wealthy, how much connections and how many connected relatives do the parents of a brilliant child have? If you want your child to be great, then be great.

If your parents are wealthy, your future will automatically be secured. It doesn't matter whether you were a good or a poor performer academically.

When a brilliant child becomes a struggling adult, check his/her parents.

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 bro! Please don't give up! We will all smile in the end!

Acidosis:
Question is how wealthy, how much connections and how many connected relatives do the parents of a brilliant child have? If you want your child to be great, then be great.

If your parents are wealthy, your future will automatically be secured. It doesn't matter whether you were a good or a poor performer academically.

When a brilliant child becomes a struggling adult, check his/her parents.

You are correct to a very large extent, I read a book some years ago in which the author buttressed your point, can't recall the name of the book at the moment but would revert. It was recommended to me.

You see, no matter how good you are at playing football, if you come from a poor home or underprivileged background, your chances of playing in big clubs in Europe and other great continents are very slim...note the word slim....it doesn't mean it's impossible but chances are slim. It's easier for a JJ Okocha, Zidane, Pep, Torres, Musa, Henry, Messi, Ronaldo, Salah, Kanu's etc wards who are not as good as you are to play in Europe than for the poor dude. Why? Privilege....and this applies to every area of life, Music, Acting, Sports, etc including getting jobs and running businesses.....good thing is, education is a leveler and once you get it, you stand a better chance. Providence also has it's role to play....that's why we have people like MKO Abiola, GEJ, Jack Ma and the likes, attain heights their parents never dreamt of.....

Let me conclude by stating this popular quote: The race is not to the swift, the battle is not to the strong...time and chance happens to them all.

ozoneymcm:
You described me. I thought you knew me

oh
we humans are so alike

davillian:
The thing is that life doesn't present everybody with the same opportunity.
Such people might not have the opportunity to even attend the university.
I have people who lost their sponsors in the university and had to work while schooling and in most case it will affect their grades that doesn't mean they dont know anything.
I believe its by opportunity ,connection and Gods favour one can be come successful .

Exactly. That's the point.. Tell them

I have a problem with this post.

1. what about the ones they weren't smart in school...does that mean they dont deserve assistance??

2. Being book smart just makes you handicapped without that book...what you dont realize is that the so called "dull students" were busy experimenting other ways of living without that book...they would have been book smart if they wanted to but it was probably boring for them.

3. street smart >> book smart any day...what happened to those first class and 2.1 students in school??

4. Anything destined to be will be.

5. self education still the best form of education ..learn to train your self and take your own selected courses.

#note to self: Never take school work too serious, because you might will end up disappointed..Even when you are given a position you still feel you didn't get what you deserve.

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

No body, i repeat, no body blocked anyones star. Read books my people.
Have you read the book Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students by Robert Kiyosaki? My life changed when i read Rich dad Poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki back in my secondary school days. It is all about your thought pattern. School teaches you not to make mistakes and if you take only that skillset to the real world you will perform below average. That is the reason most school smart kids dont make it in the real world. They are thought to take it easy, make no mistakes, be careful, get a secured jobs. Most successful people took risks and learned from their mistakes. These are skills schools dont teach you and it explains why most school smart kids dont do well in real life.

M3A16:
Yes , you might not believe but I pray you never fall victim........ What you know is now, what happens next few mins after you don't.

So many weired things had happened to me but I never for once had the notion that it's someone from somewhere that is doing me. I still live my normal life. Some of those things people believed make them to be filled with so much fear of the unknowns. Nobody is doing anyone. If you fill your mind with the notion that someone somewhere is operating your destiny from somewhere, you will always live with fear of such notions in your mind day in day out.

Why do we see people being hypnotized in our today's world? I can show up and tell you that one of your person in the village is planning your evil. He doesn't want you progressed. They want to take everything from you and instantly you will be filled with fear. And at that point, I can brain wash you and extort you just because you believe what I said that truly someone from your village is after your destiny.

That's the point I am trying to make here. Nobody is after you. Don't believe those stuffs. When you believe stuffs like that, they make you become more vulnerable in your emotions and thinking. You will look like a prey that can easily be preyed on any time.

But when you don't bother your mind with those kind of stuffs, you will live your normal life and no one will ever have the thought of preying on you or using your beliefs as your major weak point to instill fear of the unknown in you. When some stuffs happen in your life, don't be too quick to jump into conclusion that it's someone that is doing you from somewhere. See it as part of life. And clear your mind off every form of spiritual beliefs and the like and you will see that you will live like a free man without filling your mind with the thoughts of the unknowns coming after you.

franchasng:
For your info, I am a confirmed introvert, so when I speak, I speak from experience.

I am that book worm, that most intelligent student or guy you can ever imagine. I read 4 novels a day while growing up and even after graduation. I rarely go out, I bury my life inside books, reading everything readable back then, from textbooks of all subjects (science, arts, commerce, history), I finished reading Oxford English dictionary from cover to cover in 3 years, almost did same for Bible.

I started solving calculus in secondary school on my own without anybody teaching me, I broke record, my maths teacher got marveled. I was teaching JAMB students that senior me further maths, integration, etc while I was still in SS2. I helped lots of people pass WAEC and JAMB by helping them sit for exams, even while in first year, I was helping people in 300lv write their department exam, they just bring their textbook close to exam and I read and that's all. I am born genius to the glory of God, so I know what I am telling you, you won't understand it sha.

There is no novel written between 1990 - 2010 I haven't read; foreign and local.

I have participated and won so many local and foreign competitions. I have done things you will hear and marvel. I have friends but I hardly go out to visit them, they visit me at home instead.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't womanise, I started responding to ladies not long ago, I never had a girlfriend growing up. I was over religious growing up that I feared girls nearing me.

The only bad habit I picked up after graduation was masturbation.

So when I speak to you, listen to me.

I have all manner of friends you can think of; good and bad, cultists and pastors back then in school.

I am that kind of brainy student you know that because of his being too good, even cultists befriend me and come to me to confess their sins and ask me to pray for them.

I saved some student neighbors back in school from being forcefully initiated into cults as some cult leaders in my school will come tell me some of their plans to forcefully initiate some neighbors and I will plead on their behalf and they listen to me.

I have friends who are like me, some graduated with first class from OAU, UNN, etc, so I have all manner of friends u can think of; both those from rich family and those from very wretched family.

You seem to be talking based on hearsay, but I am talking to u based on personal real life experience, most extroverts make it faster in life after school than most introverts, its a fact.

Introverts also end up successful, but it take them more time and effort. It took me a lot of determination, consistency and perseverance to overcome my introvertic life which seemed to hold me down a lot in the past.

As for rich kids, from my personal life experience, children born by average and poor parents tend to make it more than rich kids.

Maybe you are considering Dangote's son inheriting his father's companies as being rich.

Go and check, if Dangote is worth $10billion before he dies, after he dies and his son inherits his wealth, check after 10yrs, the wealth will reduce to like $4billion, yes he is still rich but he has become poorer than his father left.

Most rich parents fail to inculcate hardwork, financial management and money wisdom skills into their rich kids, and this affect the kids later in life when their rich parents are dead and gone, that's why you hardly hear the name of children of former rich people becoming richer, especially in Nigeria, why

Their kids either kept eating and selling off their parents properties and investment to live luxury life, without knowing how to brainstorm, hustle and make their own money to increase their family fortune.

Most rich kids can't stand on their own without their rich parents connecting them to top paying jobs, and making them company executives which they most times run down, or haven't you read the viral news of Diamond Bank Plc founder Edozie whose rich son has managed to run down Diamond Bank of recent

Its always like that, so your assumptions are not entirely true, look at them again

hmmm... 4 novels a day. I'm sure they were big novels too. It's even more impressive that you have read every book written between 1990 and 2010.

Tell me, which in your opinion is the better Sheldon book between 'Tell me your dreams' and 'Are you afraid of the dark'? Also, what do think of 'Dog eat dog' by Niq Mhlongo?

Pseud...

millionboi2:
datz is just ur opinion.


We are Africans and things like dis hapns here,we call it black magic.

Free your mind from fear.

Basiljoe:
African black magic is overrated, it's a derivative from the African Traditional Religion, my maternal grandparents are practitioners of the African Traditional Religion.
Their spiritual values are a lot better than foreign religions, however the concept of juju, blood rituals and what not (black magic), is grossly overhyped by the media (Nollywood).
Free your mind from fear.

lol
Ok

What a load of _dung?

African man very stupid, useless and archaic mentality.

CreepyBlackpool:
There's no such thing as star being blocked

no village people involved.


He stopped reading and started failing, simple as that!

You are spiritually illiterate, and daft. Does reading get you a job after performing exceptionally well in the interview?
What of those who score high in UME and still struggle to secure admission?

if you know nothing about spiritual matters, please shut up and stop deceiving people.

CreepyBlackpool:
There's no such thing as star being blocked

no village people involved.


He stopped reading and started failing, simple as that!

exceptional and articulate response.
I wish I could have given you an e-handshake.

MyGeneration:
Sometimes it's when the child looses focus. I am a living example of that sha genius from primary school I was a big fan of dexter from Cartoon Network and jimmy neutron from nickelodeon I was practically a nerd that people made fun of because of my way of thinking. I started reading chemistry and physics text books when I was in Jss getting admission was beans but once I got to university distractions finished me girls in particular because when I was smaller and seen as a nerd no girl ever looked our way so once we were in uni we wanted to do it all. We fell down the ladder graduated with poor grades and had to struggle but someone who is great is destined to be great it's always in you just find your way. I refused to work coz I know I am a problem solver I went into business when my mates were getting jobs it wasn't easy but we are still going up that ladder

I will like to hear the full gist I’m in similar fate now