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[A Must Read] The Ordeal of the Only Brilliant Boy in Class

I remember that epic moment at school as a brilliant lad when I answered a question which nobody else in the class could answer correctly. Consequently, the teacher handed her cane over to me and commanded me to flog everybody in the class. If you'd got this same experience while in school, I believe you know what the feeling is always like especially if you'd got some enemies to thrash in the class. But I was a different kinda person with regards to having some enemies in the class to thrash the hell outta their asses. So, I collected the cane reluctantly from the teacher and began to fiddle with it. Then the teacher shouted at me and commanded me to execute her orders with immediate effect. At this juncture, I had no other option than to do as I was told. "Just do as you're told but be very lenient with them." That was my mind ministering to me. The first person I was to flog happened to be a very close friend of mine. As it's the case of dealin...

Why You Should Not Be Afraid of Feedback

"A Man Will Do Nothing if He Waits Until He Does it So Well that Nobody Finds Faults in What He's Done." This quote has gone a long way in helping me realize that I don't need to be afraid of feedback, most especially the negative ones, if I ever wish to put my ideas and plans into action. Lets face it, whether we accept it or not, there will always be some set of people who criticize our efforts. Fact is that, most of the times, humans expect perfection from themselves and others even though they know quite well that the human race had fallen short of perfection starting from the very day the first human parents (Adam and Eve) disobeyed God. However, that shouldn't be an excuse for failing to be the best that is expected of us in our various areas of specialization. The scriptural knowledge about the imperfection of the human race shouldn't dominate our reasoning faculty such that we feel that we just couldn't do anything completely right. God himsel...