Please do not miss tonight’s session… you will not hear this anywhere in the world… you know I’m not bragging.

I’m the teacher, I’m the only one permitted to be late to assembly.

Just enter the classroom and wait for me.

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See you there.

— John Obidi

We’re live

It's my birthday again.

Yes, 9-9!

But this transmission is more about you.

For most of the year, I've been meditating on a quote from "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli.

That's a book that I generally ignored for most of my adult life because I could not yet see its relevance to me.

I assumed it was for politicians until I eventually reinterpreted its metaphors as I will do here.

It goes thus:

"_A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline;

for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank.

And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states_”

*Exegesis*

I think that in our time, there can be an overfixation on mental health such that you may start to idolize 'Peace' as the ultimate prize.

And might I add here to acknowledge why?

Life can get heavy at times.

The burden of survival, the wounds of everyday conflict and the weariness of struggle... *these are not small things.*

For many, the extended longing for peace is deeply human and understandable.

But hear me: though this may be the way of the average citizen, *it cannot be the way of Kings.*

If not peace, what then?

*CONQUEST!*

Medieval Kings and nobles did not necessarily relish peace.

Peasants and regular citizens did of course, but for Kings, peace was just a boring pause before the next campaign.

War was the only way Kings could seize wealth of rivals, expand their territory, and tax newly conquered territory.

As for the noblemen, they funded the Kings wars. You could call them the Venture Capitalists of their time.

If the King was successful, the nobles were rewarded with more land, castles and titles.

99% of the mental health advice out there was written for peasants, not Kings.

All that talk about perpetually protecting your peace, finding your bliss and living the soft life is 100% correct, for the average citizen.

*NOT YOU!*

As Kings, peace is not the end goal.

Peace is the boring break between campaigns.

If you are to rise in life, you must always be at war and constantly be a student of war.

Not in the literal sense as with swords and spears, but at war for domain expansion.

Take territories in your business, in your mind, in your relationships, in your world.

Your adversaries are third world demons, ignorance, poverty, mediocrity, timidity and the inertia that keeps your voice small.

Expand your dominion.

And when peace comes, do not let it make you soft.

In the absence of war, study war.

In the presence of it, practise war.

For in the words of Machiavelli:

"..._it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank.

And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states._”

*How To Gift Me*

You didn't think I would forget this did you?

Here is your opportunity to send me a gift.

See... I have been finding a nice way to say that I don't really like those pillows and mugs with my face on them.

I don't know who started that trend in Lagos, but I'm glad it died out with the pandemic.

Just send me money, thank you.

*Send in Naira:* https://obidi.co/birthdayboy

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It's not for God oh.

It's me that wants to eat your money!

But God bless you sha.

— J.O.

There’s so much turbulence globally, and perhaps their local versions will surface as well.

They’ll tempt you to lend your mental energies to their causes and you may want to vent your opinions online.

Resist it.

They’re not your friends. They don’t care about you.
They don’t love you.

They will use your psychic energies for nothing if you’re unguarded.

Focus! Your attention is the most valuable asset and they’re counting on you being careless with it.

Your only pursuit right now is the expansion of your territory - in business, in life, in influence.

What’s the status on your business trips, customer acquisition and strategic alliances?

Have you seen the movies I asked you to?

Your only business of concern right now is YOUR KINGDOM, not someone else’s.

Take advice only from Kings, not peasant influencers.

As another King wrote:

“_Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom._”

— Ecc. 9:10

I need you to succeed — not peasant success — but massive success.

Wild accolades. Bastard money. Earth shattering influence.

Maybe because I love you, but MOSTLY BECAUSE I WANT TO EAT YOUR MONEY!

I need to.

Talk soon,
— J.O

PS: See those em dashes (—)? It’s not ChatGPT oh. I’m well educated so I use them too. We bless God.

PPS: Please join the WhatsApp channel here: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9ERxI7dmeRx7pLG40Q

Due to lengthy international travels this weekend, I will be unable to convene Night School this Saturday.

In the meantime, I will continue to communicate my thoughts in writing, primarily on this channel.

God bless you and please have a wealthy weekend ahead.

— J.O.

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*5 YouTube Channels I Wish I Had as a Kid*

(_For parents whose kids who will one day lead nations, industries, and movements_)

1️⃣ Khan Academy Kids – Fun, animated lessons that introduce saving, sharing, and value.
📎 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ri4rEb8abnNwXvTjg5ARw

2️⃣ Learn Bright – Engaging videos on money basics, needs vs. wants, budgeting, and more.
📎 https://www.youtube.com/c/LearnBright

3️⃣ Crash Course Kids – Age-appropriate explainers on how the world works (resources, trade, production).
📎 https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids

4️⃣ Free School – History and world systems through stories of inventors, explorers, and empire builders.
📎 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCebMFnw6WxozGmqGekJHOJg

5️⃣ KidVestors – Financial literacy, investing, and entrepreneurship made kid-friendly.
📎 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSsduzeaL8j6KGeIl-rz5kA

——————

Some of these channels teach more than money matters, but yeah, their overall content and approach are solid.

“Let children be children” is hypnotic doctrine from “the other side”.

Instead, hand them the lead.

Heads, never tails.

— J.O.

Pornography, pop culture and endless scrolling through a hyper-sexualized social media feed.

None of it is accidental.

It’s the architecture of a system designed to keep you drifting. It's profitable to everyone in the loop, except yourself.

If you’ve been feeling drained, unfocused, or addicted to stimulation, this session will show you why… and perhaps suggest how to break free.

None of this is your fault.

Your desires have been engineered.

Your impulses monetized.

Your time converted into data and sold on the open market.

All this time, you've been up against corporations with PhDs on their payroll.

They know us better than we perhaps know ourselves.

It’s time to stop being the product... and start being the producer of your own thoughts, actions and destiny.

Please find your invite below.

Date: Saturday 25th October, 2025
Time: 9pm, Nigeria Time

Registration: https://obidi.co/eom

See you there.

— John Obidi

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☝🏼 What I’m sharing here isn’t about faith, though you can cull that if it works for you.

I’m focused more on just how much we take for granted in our modern world — what people of the past had to go through in order to accomplish the most basic human tasks - transportation, communication and trade.

How much legacy are you leaving on the table given the tools available to us today?

A worthy paradigm to meditate on would be Yuval Noah Harari’s book title, Homo Deus.

It means God-like Humans.

It’s not the future. It’s already here.

Some humans already live in that reality, and if you aren’t, they’re beating you.

There’s a reason it’s called the “Human race”.

I want you winning.

— J.O.

PS: Study notes for “Economy of Mind” will be sent out shortly. If you didn’t register but would like to receive it, you may still sign up here: https://obidi.co/eom

Better late than never, but study notes to “Economy of Mind” have been emailed to you.

If you didn’t register earlier but would like to receive it, you can still do so and get it in minutes here: https://obidi.co/eom

We go again tomorrow with the next installment in the series.

Talk Soon,
— J.O.

It’s almost Game Time.

All links are the same. See you soon.

— J.O.

We’re live. Get the access url in your email or register again and head straight to the session here: Registration: https://obidi.co/eom

We’re experimenting with weekly rebroadcasts from some old Night School episodes.

The Alchemy of Wealth is currently restreaming.

Please watch and let us know if you like the experience.

Access here: https://youtube.com/live/LOwhSHSQQh4?feature=share

Tonight’s scheduled meeting can no longer hold tonight due to operational reasons.

It will stream live tomorrow (Sunday), by 9pm.

As we continue with the 3rd installment of the “Economy of Mind” series, we will be examining a rather curious thought - the difference in men.

We may all look the same on a species level, but we are differentiated by our emotional/psychological/spiritual programming which in turn determines our eventual respective positions on the chessboard of life.

Regardless of how we were programmed by our human guardians, can one realistically renegotiate their place on the chessboard?

Is it achievable? Or just a fantasy we’re enticed to chase?

Of course it’s achievable but the ‘how’ is the bone of contention.

The so-called renewing of your mind begins with arming yourself with the most accurate version of reality.

We all see in part, but some do not even see at all.

Join us tomorrow (Sunday) by 9pm.

If you already registered for the series, all links remain the same.

If you haven’t registered, here’s the registration link: https://obidi.co/eom

Thy Teacher,
— J.O.

King Solomon wrote, “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children”

I think his definition of ‘good’ here was informed by his personal experience as a son (and successor) of King David.

Preparing succession was (and still is) a priority to Kings. They’d built a lot and wanted to ensure its preservation, even in their demise.

They also attached a sense of pride to their offspring and wanted them well set up and protected.

They were also under no illusion that life was fair.

This was a hyper competitive world and their kids had to have as much of an advantage as possible over everyone else.

Consequently, they educated their offspring differently than the child of the commoner cared to.

So when King Solomon refers to leaving an inheritance, it was more than material.

Just before Kind David died, he called Solomon to his side and told him, as we say, where the bodies were buried.

He told him whom to trust and whom to punish; who was a generational friend and who was an enemy; which other kingdoms they had agreements with and which advisers to lean on.

Kind David even contributed a couple of chapters to Solomon’s book of Proverbs.

Only after arming him thus did he send him into this cruel world to try to win.

And so it baffles me almost to the point of irritation when parents choose to breed with little thought to what weapons of war their kids are engaging reality with.

No superior knowledge of the world they can use, no connections, no advantages, no capital, nothing.

Just “I brought you into this world”

Who asked you to? It’s a dark, dangerous and exploitative planet.

Or at most “You will succeed. I’m praying for you”

That’s not how it’s done, o peasant.

Anyway the deed has been done.

You’re here now… figuring out late in your life… that the world isn’t what you were told it was, especially those of you born into a Third World concentration camp.

You must wake up and sit up or be food for those who see.

The inheritance you weren’t given, you must learn to seize.

You must learn how to be free… *_IN THE WAYS THAT MATTER._*

☝🏼Read this line again.

Night School holds tonight at 9pm.

Be disciplined. Show up early, not begging for a replay or a recap.

Teachers like me only incarnate once in a generation so it’s funny to me when you’re lazy to access what is free of cost.

It’s the Economy of Mind series.

If you’re not registered, please do so here: https://obidi.co/eom

See you tonight.

— J.O.

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Side gist from yesterday’s *Night Meeting*…

☝🏼yeah, that was intended to sound spooky 👻 to my very African audience 😂

Anyway… it was this… that the Secrets to Life (and indeed our Universe) are hidden in Secondary School science subjects.

One of such secrets is locked up in a Physics term - ESCAPE VELOCITY.

You may’ve heard me teach on this before.

Here’s what it means scientifically…

When launching a rocket into space, a lot of energy (fuel) is required due to:

- the weight of the rocket (how heavy it is)
- ⁠the gravitational pull that the earth exerts on the rocket, forcing it to stay firmly on the ground

In order to supersede these forces of natural law, scientists have to calculate the exact amount of energy (fuel) required to lift this heavy rocket off the ground and into space.

This would naturally require unimaginable amounts of energy (fuel), but…

Scientists also know that another aspect of natural law is on their side - Escape Velocity.

It’s the speed that the rocket needs to reach in order to ESCAPE the earth’s gravitational pull, such that it doesn’t require more energy (fuel) to keep accelerating.

And so a lot of effort, resources and calculations are vested in ensuring this ESCAPE VELOCITY is achieved, knowing that nature will handle the rest once we do our part.

_Your Escape Velocity_

I think a lot of people underestimate the inhuman amounts of courage, tenacity and selective deafness required to get some dreams off the ground.

You’re dealing with:
- the unbelief of your friends
- ⁠the uncertainty of being original
- ⁠very likely originating from a Third world country with a comparatively less stable economy

You cannot afford the ‘love and light’ vibe of 1st world influencers.

You’re not in your ‘gratitude’ era.

You’re like the biblical Nehemiah, who when given permission by King Artaxerxes I of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, faced attacks from Sanballat, Tobias, the Ammonites and the Samaritans.

Nehemiah’s response to the builders wasn’t “God will fight for us” or “keep high vibrations”

The response was lethal, more like… “Okay, niggas finna die now”

Nehemiah 4:17 - “Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other… and each had his sword strapped at his side while he built.”

If there was ever an instruction to ‘stay strapped’, it’s to you Third World native.

Your self esteem will come under attack.

Monitoring spirits will spy on your work just to see if you’ve given up yet.

And don’t forget the enemy within, as your own worst vices and unsolved traumas will try to trip you up.

It will be a dog fight, but only at the beginning… remember you only have to achieve escape velocity and then you’re untouchable.

No superstar you respect has been able to avoid this path.

Cast laziness and procrastination aside.

There’s much work to be done.

Build with one hand, make war with the other.

— J.O.

PS: Study notes to last night’s session will be sent out in a few hours. I’ll be including the MBA resources, movie recommendations and book recommendations for the newcomers. You can get on the list if you’re not there: https://obidi.co/eom

PPS: I found a song today and I think some of you might like the vibe. It’s “Time of my life” by Kenyan musician, Nyashinski

It’s a good one. Just get your headphones. Trust.

You’ve got mail! Afterthoughts and study notes have been beamed out.

Meanwhile, stream Nyashinski’s “Time of My Life” on repeat: https://youtu.be/cWT9AlCu3Bw?si=eXWZHtQQg4C5gQI9

— J.O.

Most people use AI for content creation, but my biggest dividend so far is that it tells strangers worldwide who I am.

Our yearly AI Income Accelerator classes will resume shortly.

Please watch this space.

— J.O.

On social media, you will hear some public figures say that it makes no sense to go to Universities or Business Schools to learn about Entrepreneurship from lecturers who never built a business.

They are categorically wrong, but I understand how their logic computes.

They only see the first layer of our shared reality, hence the hasty assertion.

It is indeed true that you can learn about business from those who have been successful at business.

However, the current economic framework in which those same businesses play was first designed on paper by Bankers, Economists, Statisticians, Bureaucrats and other stakeholders, at the behest of their various Governments.

It is the job of high level academia to study and progressively document the status and evolution of the respective country’s business environment.

Hence they have access to reports, case studies and historical data.

They also know how to interpret this data for the actual students of entrepreneurship to take action.

The top 1% send their kids to acquire this carefully curated treasure trove of generational wisdom.

They therefore engage the market with more data than the average hustler is working with.

These are not people trying to simply make a living.

Their parents sent them into the world to take over entire supply chains, distribution lines and production processes.

While the average man wants to make 6 figures to post “God did it” on instagram so he can impress Canaanite baddies, the Harvard graduate is entering the system to control the future flow of Capital.

They are not the same.

Don’t believe people who explain reality by their success in dropshipping.

By all means, with as much as is available to you, acquire the tools and education of Capitalism *at the level that the Architects of our civilization created the system*.

This is why I sent you free MBA materials.

Don’t let them just sit in your inbox just because they’re free.

I’m even curating another list of resources to send across to you.

Please allocate time in your schedule to consume them.

Rooting for you.

— J.O.

PS: We’re still creating the materials for our coming AI Income Accelerator. Please watch this space and *turn on notifications*.

The trend of being attached to our phones is almost inescapable at this point.

What’s worked for me is to replace short form content consumption with VALUABLE long form content.

Less Instagram, More YouTube Lectures.

We’ve curated 8 YouTube Channels that will Massively Upgrade Your Life - across finance, life skills and world knowledge.

Access here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRCZc8hjN_a/

— J.O.