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☝🏽 Watch the above video and continue reading below 👇🏼

☝🏽 Cont’d… Poor kids start out life with a lot of optimism and intelligence, but often fail to reap the expected rewards from said intelligence due to poor world knowledge.

That is, poor education on:
- the nature, systems and power structure of the world (and country) you were born into
- ⁠what specific activities are most highly rewarded in your country and time period

The above topics won’t be taught in school otherwise those your financially strained teachers wouldn’t be teaching you in the first place.

And the poor kid grows up to deploy their intelligence in ways that are poorly rewarded, and/or in a society that is (mis)configured to reward something else (like thuggery for example) because it’s what they know.

Elites are not naive about real world realities and they raise their kids with this in mind.

Their moves and decisions are rooted in ruthless pragmatism, not sentiments or blind hope.

I’ll continue this write up on this week’s study notes for the Trade Winds series.

If you didn’t register for The Trade Winds Series specifically, you will miss it.

You can still register to get it at: https://obidi.co/tradewinds

Please note that you cannot slide into my DMs to beg me for it.

I will answer with “😊” if you’re older than me.

If younger, I will just leave you on read.

— J.O.

Sending out afterthoughts, study notes, and resources for the Tradewinds series in 3 hours.

If you did not register for the series, but would like to receive them please do so here: https://obidi.co/tradewinds

I will not be responding to any requests outside this window.

— J.O.

PS: Here’s the url again: https://obidi.co/tradewinds

You’ve got mail!

We’re all set for The EXCLUSIVE BUSINESS BREAKFAST MEETING cordially hosted by Rev. Edwin Biayeibo of House On The Rock Church, Enugu.

It’s free to attend but you’ll need to register at https://hotrenugu.org/johnobidi

Due to its exclusivity, I’m not certain it will be live-streamed, but I will update you here with relevant links if otherwise.

I’ll also be speaking/teaching/preaching/ministering the very next day (Sunday) as well.

Sunday services are always streamed, so at least there’s that.

Consequently, Night School will not hold this weekend.

I know I’m pretty much Superman, but thou shalt not out the Lord your God to test.

Happy weekend 😊

— J.O.

PS: My instagram DMs are open, only to those who do not intend to stress me.

I’ve confirmed that this meeting will be live streamed.

Please standby for the link.

— J.O.

Here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/live/uZiwRyi0X1k?si=Cpr-hEYn8QwDso2T

We’re on break now. I’ll buzz you here when the second session begins.

We’re back:

https://www.youtube.com/live/uZiwRyi0X1k?si=2CmxWwWH6uhf6N3F

The feedback from House on The Rock Enugu has been exceptional.

Thanks for joining us in-person and online this past weekend.

I look forward to doing and sharing more through this platform, Night School and others.

Have a great week ahead.

— J.O.

When you are this close 🤏🏼 to figuring it out, ‘the system’ will send you a diversion - a phone call, social media update, maybe an unsolicited knock on your door.

It’s not random.

The system profits off of a critical mass of people remaining disconnected from their true selves, living perpetually in fight or flight mode, never reserving sufficient mental energy for catching synchronicities.

It will keep you too busy to think.

But you absolutely must think, and read, and learn, and grow.

The road to destruction is broad. I must admit that ‘destruction’ does seem a tad bit dramatic.

More like the road to more emptiness, chasing meaningless adulation/awards so you have a brief feeling of being special, constant fear of loss, etc.

Yeah, the road to all that… is broad.

The game of life is out here catfishing everyone else.

But the way to life… life on your own terms… the one that endures and really feels like life… one without fear of existential threats… no debt, chasing nothing but attracting everything…

Yeah, the road to that particular life, is narrow.

Few will find the narrow road because it won’t be advertised.

Pause and think.

Study, journal, course correct.

Improve. Find others doing the same.

There is no other way.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

And one more thing…

When you find your oasis, your paradise, your heaven, your little village by the sea…

Shut up about it.

The masses will destroy what they cannot possess.

Shut up and take in that suntan.

You’d have earned it.

— J.O.

Financial anxiety and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) on life can cause you to chase people who are in reality going through exactly what you’re going through, or worse.

It’s the status equivalent of make up filters and fake lashes that happens in most big cities of the world as a survival strategy.

Everyone is catfishing everyone with the illusion of having the secret sauce knowing damn well they’re just as lost and empty.

Sit your anxious ass at home and be faithful to your purpose.

Commit to executing on the same boring plan that gets you closer to your goals.

Read, plan, execute.

And oh, watch John Obidi on Night School.

Can you at least manage that?

— J.O.

This week’s Night School will hold tomorrow night (Sunday), instead of tonight.

See you then.

— J.O.

What have we learned today, boys and girls? 😊

Unfortunately, network conditions after the rains make it impossible to live stream anything currently.

Today is out of it as well. Let’s make it work for Tuesday.

— J.O.

I’m speaking today at the Money Matters Conference in Lagos.

Asides me, there’s a great lineup of teachers you can learn from.

I should be coming up around 1 or 2pm but here’s the streaming link meanwhile:

https://www.youtube.com/live/lI1OmAhkCLY?si=5_DhCnaU739EO-cB

See you there.

— J.O.

I’m here. Lock in ☝🏽

See this picture? Some of you sent it to me and said it’s confirmation that I should open a church.

Listen carefully.

I don’t collect 10% tax… I mean… tithe oh.

My own is 40% last price.

I want your signed consent now make I screenshot am.

📸 *CHAKAM!*

Before you change mouth later, come dey call me end time J.O.

Me, I will not use your money for any kingdom work oh.

I will use it to buy Ferrari and I better not hear pim.

If you agree, then let’s proceed.

Sign below 👇🏼


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HAPPY SUNDAY!

— J.O.

Do you realize that one of the reasons most young people struggle is FREEDOM?

You don’t realize how much simpler life was when your ‘authoritarian’ parents dictated whom to befriend and what to study.

Without those strict rules, you befriended any and everyone, having to learn from scratch, your own rules for who’s safe and who’s dangerous.

It’s the same with career and lifestyle design.

Problem with learning everything from your own mistakes is that each lesson takes time, a lot of time, plus wear and tear.

Some of you have 100 equally clueless friends/followers cheering “You go girl!”

Not a single wise person in your corner to say, “Don’t post that”, “Don’t be seen wearing that”, “This career is a dead end, pick something else”

You’re losing aura points in ways you don’t recognize.

The spirit of the age is patient - waiting to feed on your unhappiness after you might’ve prematurely eliminated your options with what you think freedom is.

What will you do about it?

— J.O.

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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times” – Bruce Lee

Thought for the day: What’s your one kick?

It better not be something weak that cannot produce bastard money.

A kick that can’t make you rich is merely a tickle.

Learn a better, stronger, wealthier kick… and practise that one kick 10,000 times.

Got it?

So I ask again.

What’s your one kick?

— J.O.

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