Formal Education Chapter : Closed(Dedication – Dahunsi Olanrewaju, Vice President,UNILAG JCs)

It is another great week,a week filled with so much greatness that I can feel it as if I caught a cold and here I am yet again with another dose of quoteable quotes,inspiration and motivation.These past few weeks has been quite funny,I remember back in the days when I size up my friends to spend cash and they tell me they don’t have a dime,I always laughed because I don’t know whether to believe them or not. How can u tell me you don’t have a dime? Interesting enough they might have been telling the truth. Right now,as a I make this post I don’t have a dime (I can’t lie to myself now can i?).It’s a phase that will pass so it’s no big deal.

I was talking to a friend of mine Dahunsi Olanrewaju (Vice President,UNILAG JCs)last week and I saw his passion for football (he is a Manchester united fan by the way).He was saying that the best footballer award was going in favour of messi according to votes but that it should go to C. Ronaldo instead.He gave some reasons and analysis to support his point but I don’t expect anything less,he was supporting his own, no doubt. Anyway C. Ronaldo won.As the Vice President you answer to a female President,I wonder how that works,you should tell me about it some other time.

Barack Obama just finished his speech on tv and I picked up something from the transmission,not necessarily from him,it came from Jesse Jackson Jnr. – I will rather fail rightly than succeed wrongly.I have to admit Obama is what Americans have been waiting for.

To the core talk for this week, convocation of the 2007/2008 set comes up tomorrow and I am not even eager to be there,they want N8600 for graduation gown and invitation amidst some kind of agreement.If I get that money right now, the gown and invitation won’t even be on the list of things I will get with the money,come to think of it I just finished reading rich dad poor dad by Robert kiyosaki (Highly recommended). Take a look at a cross-section of the book.

"It is foolish to assume that the education the school system provides will prepare your children for the world
they will face upon graduation. Each child needs more education. Different education. And they need to know the rules. The different sets of rules."

"Get with the times! Look around; the richest people didn't get rich because of their educations. Look at Michael
Jordan and Madonna. Even Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard, founded Microsoft; he is now the richest man in
America, and he's still in his 30s. There is a baseball pitcher who makes more than $4 million a year even though
he has been labeled `mentally challenged.' "

"Today, the most dangerous advice you can give a child is `Go to school, get good grades and look for a safe
secure job,' " he likes to say. "That is old advice, and it's bad advice …”

Please don’t get the wrong impression about school,because if you do I wonder what you will do when you read his other book – if you want to be rich and happy, don’t go to school.After reading the book (rich dad,poor dad), I didn’t regret going to college/university because I know that somehow somewhere, college opened my eyes to this new path that I have found and I have decided to follow and no,there are no masters and phds on the path just financial literacy (it is a path of freedom, a path of investing, a path of being my own BOSS!).

A few quoteable quotes (sometimes I wonder if any post is complete without it!)

1. Freedom is the potential to challenge yourself far beyond the constraints of traditional rules.

2. Never give up to find a way because that is what winners do.

3. If there is a rule you can bend it,if there is a law you can break it,if you can change the rules on what controls you can change the rules on what you control.

So sad,convocation is here, and I won’t be there(as if I care),don’t you want to celebrate? Celebrate my foot, I celebrity success not mediocrity.Another dose of motivation for us all.

P.S : I was listening to the radio during the week and I heard this about the power company –
NEPA PLC : Never Expect Power Always Please Light Candle
PHCN : Problem Has Changed Name
Seeing the relationship I couldn’t help laughing.We (Nigerians) are truly the happiest people on earth but we had to be told by a foreign entity before we saw it,what a shame?