In science, you must show your work, not just the conclusions (answers).

It helps provide insight into your assumptions, data, logic and decision making.

It does not matter whether your conclusions are right or wrong, if the assumptions, data, logic and decision making do not support your conclusions, the conclusion is dismissed.

Your conclusion might be right, yet you can still get less marks than the one whose work is more reproducible.

In science, the “what” only matters, if the “how” is reproducible.

Life as we know it, is becoming more and more a celebration of “what”, with any questions on “how” either taken as an affront to the achiever or as boring to the listener.

This is why success is so difficult to reproduce.

More and more people want to get full marks for the answers, without a need to show their work.

– Osasu Oviawe

You were supposed to go through life’s lessons, not carry them with you.

Now you see every new person and moment through the lenses of old lessons.

The old lessons served a specific purpose. Sadly, you now use it as a measure for all new experiences.

Some of the old lessons required you to move on from some people or places, but you stayed with them and now hurt everyone that comes around you, including yourself.

Some old lessons required you to cross some hurdles. It did not matter whether you crossed the hurdle cleanly or with bruises, you just had to cross it. Instead, you decided to carry the hurdles with you. Now you wonder why the race is significantly harder to finish.

Are you seeing your present circumstances for what they are, or are you using your favourite old lenses?

– Osasu Oviawe