Someone Asked What Advice I Would Give My Younger Self. This Was My Response:

I would tell him; "Seek Knowledge Voraciously." I grew up in Nigeria and still live in Nigeria. So I know from first hand experience what it feels like to live in the darkness of the 3rd world and what it feels like to consciously experience discovery of "civilization." For example: Though I was blessed to have a computer and internet pretty earlier than others in Nigeria (thank God for my wonderful parents), I didn't have a computer and internet until I was about 20 and in university. Yet, because I didn't have the benefit of growing up in a culture or society with computers, I didn't understand what search engines were for. So I had Yahoo/Google in front of me but I would spend my savings buying books to learn "stuff" and the books I could afford to get which were the best available in Nigeria were old publications. Imagine that I was reading about marketing online from a book that was written 10 years previous to that time. I was consuming and planning on old dead ideas when Google search was right in front of me. But I didn't know what they were used for or how to use them for Year. By the time I realized their use, I had been walking miles in the opposite direction to my dreams. These days, I consume "current" knowledge like a hungry lion 🦁 thanking Jesus for saving me.