Great morning to you readers. Trust your weekend went well. Remember we get what we put into life.
In continuation of nuggets from the last ‘Unleash the Giants’ seminar. I will be sharing nuggets from my session.
We started by discussing Lord Luggard’s description of Nigerians in his books ‘The Dual Mandate’ published in 1926 and how it sadly still aptly fits us 92 years after. Some of the excerpts are:
“In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person. Lacking in self control, discipline, and foresight…”
“His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future, or grief for the past…”
“He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility …”
We then proceeded to discuss some of the thought processes or mentalities responsible for this. These are:
1. Consumption Mentality: This is a Esau Mentality. Consuming rather Conserving. Common with individuals and in government.
2. Entitlement Mentality: The Prodigal Son Mentality. Focusing on the benefits, perks and privileges that come with positions or offices without actually adding value to the position or office.
3. Immediate Gratification Mentality: Craves for immediate satisfaction of desires even if it will be harmful.
4. Win the Battle Mentality: Focusing on fighting small battles and losing focus on the war. This thinking pattern favors small gains rather than focusing on the greater picture. Jostling for jobs or contracts that take you off your core areas of strengths.
5. Winner Takes All Mentality: This is a zero sum mentality. ‘I win you lose kind’ of approach. This thinking pattern is responsible for some of the inconsistencies and discontinuity in government policies once there is a change in political party.
So we need to start examining ourselves to see which of these apply to us and how we can begin to work on ourselves.
Nigeria can be great again if we all work on ourselves individually. We will continue the distillation of nuggets from the ‘Unleash the Giants’ seminar next week.
Good morning and have a great week.
Adewumi Oni
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