Past success (or failure) is not a predictor of future success (or failure).
Day: April 19, 2020
Cue 68 – Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
“Society does not just lie to you. It programs you to beat yourself up when you transgress one of its truths. Guilt is society programming you so effectively that you become your own warden. Guilt is society’s voice speaking in your head.” – Naval Ravikant
What can you teach?
When someone comes complaining to me about how difficult life is, and how impossible it is to find a job, a question I always ask is – “What can you teach?”
Most times, these people automatically think I am being mean. They take the role of being a teacher as either too stressful without the required pay, or as being beneath them. For clarity, these are people that currently have no means, yet they refuse any means that has teacher as a header. Ego rules their lives. Blind ego actually.
Sometimes, they respond with vague answers, such as, “I can teach how to succeed in life” or “I can teach how to make better decisions”.
Then I ask a follow up question – “What can you teach, that people will pay you for?”
That is when longer conversations start, mainly revolving around how everyone else is to blame for not appreciating what they have to offer.
The reason I ask these questions is not because I want them to be school teachers (By the way, we are all teachers, whether you carry the name of teacher or not, because we are always teaching ourselves and those around us, knowingly or unknowingly). I ask these questions because within what you can teach is your passion. Exploring what is within it that will attract revenue, is a practical way of exploring your passion and going through the pain that is always associated with any undertaking.
A passion that no one will pay for is a hobby. A passion that people will pay for is a venture.
We all have something we can teach. If you are alive, you have something you can teach. There are people out there that will pay for what you can teach. A puzzle you are yet to solve is how to reach them.
Someone is currently paying for your upkeep. Start with them. They are already paying anyway. Bringing extra value cannot be a disaster.
What can you teach, that people will pay you for?
– Osasu Oviawe
I believe
John 20:19-31
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe.” Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.” Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Homily:
I believe.