This is one of the questions I used to find very dumb until 2020. Why? The truth is, I am just like the other guy — nothing much, expecting magic after school.
But living a whole year at home; then, altered my perspective. More than the environment of magic and fairy thinking, I became more realistic with it. I don't really want to attribute it to me being 20 years old in that year, rather, I think it's the reality of life and how things will be after school.
When everyone saw 2020 as a year of global retardation, I saw it as a leap into opportunities.
But that's not the reason for today's letter. Chill abeg, calm down.
The truth is before you can find anything tangible in your hand, you must have something (I really tried to showcase my rap talent here, but turns out..) in your mind.
Do you get the gist?
Take a look at this equation;
Mind=Growth.
There's no reason for + or - neither dy/dx.
Now, the big question is how do you position your mind towards growth?
Growth doesn't come overnight? Think about your throwback pictures, you see the way you look like one who is homeless (I mean, judging from mine), then you'll agree with me that growth is not an overnight magic.
Growth is the deliberate intention to accept failure, learn from mistakes and execute new ideas learnt from failure.
Notice how failure surrounds my conceptualization of growth. Growth deals with rising and fall, the baby that innocently touched a hot pot will never try it again unless it is a mistake.
The reason is that he has developed growth (from failure) to be able to distinguish pain and pleasure.
About your mind;
The mind is very complicated and has a world of its own but you can still control it.
You can't have anything tangible in your mind if you're in the family of intangible friends. One of the sayings I grew up with is; a ram that walks with the dogs will eat poop.
As funny as the saying may sound, it reveals so much about whom you walk with.
Diagnose those who you call friends, bring up important topics and see their reactions. If they cared less, perhaps you should start looking for another group of people that conforms to your ideas.
Read books. Imagine you have a seed, sown in a pot. It sprouted but you never bothered to water it. It dies sooner or later. That's how a mind that is thirsty about growth but really works.
The system works much in a way that you can't have something in hand if there's nothing in mind.
That's the principle of thinking and reality. To Plato, this is the theory of forms; that, "everything we have in the physical realm is a mere copy of the mind."
Now ask yourself, what do you have in mind?
It may not be digital skills, it may be knowledge in a special field. It's the time you learn to maximize it.
Wawu
This is a nice breakdown about growth.