{"id":10824,"date":"2016-11-21T22:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=10824"},"modified":"2017-05-25T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:16:03","slug":"pii-041-avoid-intellectual-laziness-learn-how-things-work-to-achieve-success-hint-a-culture-of-making-your-own-things-is-key-to-individualnational-development-see-photos-of-home-made-ankara-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/pii-041-avoid-intellectual-laziness-learn-how-things-work-to-achieve-success-hint-a-culture-of-making-your-own-things-is-key-to-individualnational-development-see-photos-of-home-made-ankara-s\/","title":{"rendered":"PII 041: Avoid Intellectual Laziness, Learn How Things Work...to Achieve Success [Hint: A Culture of Making Your Own Things is Key to Individual\/National Development - See Photos of Home Made Ankara Slippers and Shoes Inside]"},"content":{"rendered":"

All over the world people who excel in life ahead of their peers in any area of endeavour, most times succeed because they devote unrelenting time, energy and effort to MASTERING<\/a>\u00a0one or more vocations.<\/p>\n

Without mastery, you are unlikely to be anything more than average or mediocre.<\/p>\n

Yet, mastery itself cannot be achieved unless one develops sound understanding of how to do whatever it is one wishes to excel at.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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PII 041: Avoid Intellectual Laziness, Learn How Things Work...to Achieve Success [Hint: A Culture of Making Your Own Things is Key to Individual\/National Development - See Photos of Home Made Ankara Slippers and Shoes Inside]<\/h1>\n

All over the world people who excel in life ahead of their peers in any area of endeavour, most times succeed because they devote unrelenting time, energy and effort to MASTERING<\/a>\u00a0one or more vocations.<\/p>\n

Without mastery, you are unlikely to be anything more than average or mediocre.<\/p>\n

Yet, mastery itself cannot be achieved unless one develops sound understanding of how to do whatever it is one wishes to excel at.<\/h3>\n

Societies in which the leaders and people agree on the above are often those that end up developing ahead of others.<\/p>\n

Over the past 3 decades of my life, I have remained deeply intrigued by the subject of success and how it is achieved across various groups of people, societies and cultures.<\/p>\n

We have witnessed many countries start out on the same or even lower rankings with others in terms of being underdeveloped, and rise to become leading nations.<\/p>\n

The so called Asian Tigers are a good example.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the above nations, some countries in certain geographical regions, like Africa, especially Black Africa, seem to be jinxed where achieving sustainable development is concerned.<\/h3>\n

I use that word (jinx) for lack of a better adjective.<\/p>\n

For some strange reason, many (but of course NOT all) Black African peoples seem lacking in the ability to look inwards and gain the required understanding of how things work (to paraphrase a preacher in a video I watched - see below).<\/p>\n