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Cerebral Thrust Podcast
by Cerebral Thrust
A podcast that addresses issues ranging from life lessons, personal development and effectiveness, motivation, spirituality and secularism, mental musings, critical thinking and problem solving, education and learning, entrepreneurship and business, leadership and so on.
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WHY YOUR GOALS [SMART, DUMB, BHAGs…] ARE NOT GOALS
Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realised – Richard Branson How you view your goals will determine the attitude you will adopt towards attaining them. If you see them as ends, you want to make sure that the end justifies the means, right? Do...
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BLAME IT ON YOURSELF; NOT ON OTHERS
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn’t like what he has built, and looks for someone or something to blame, instead of changing himself – Sydney Madwed Quite a number of…
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6 WAYS TO REDEFINE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT SUCCESS AND WINNING
The path to success and winning is not the same for everyone. Opeyemi’s model may be quite different from Emeka’s. You may have to unlearn, relearn and learn your own way to succeed in your chosen path or industry, and that is exactly what it means to redefine your thoughts and mindset about...
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WHAT IS THE MAKE-UP OF YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE?
Be yourself, because an original is worth more than a copy – Anonymous To thine own self be true... Thou canst not be false to any man – William Shakespeare From times past, one statement I have heard people make is “Self-confidence makes a man.” Another one is that, “A man needs self-confidence…
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COURAGE, THE DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY YOU REQUIRE TO WIN
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared – Eddie Rickenbacker Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear – Ambrose Redmoon Let me start by relaying the source of the inspiration to write...
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WHAT IS YOUR MOST VALUED ACQUISITION?
Spend time and learn to develop your personal resources – Alexander Reid Martins In the game of impact and trying to position oneself for value, different persons have different yardsticks for measuring success, and how they wish to exhibit same. Such varying parameters include the number of...
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REJECTIONS OFTEN LEAD TO ONE END: ACCOMPLISHMENTS
I have been at zero a few times; came back a few times and done it over and over. I’ve had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed; sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition; sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just...
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PREPARING THE YOUTH FOR A FUTURE OF EXCELLENCE: 12 INVALUABLE INSIGHTS
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future; act now, without delay – Simone de Beauvoir In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists – Eric Hoffer The transition between...
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THE ROLE OF MENTORING IN DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
For almost two decades, I mentored high school students formally and informally [in and outside the school system]. Many of these mentor-protégé relationships have blossomed beyond school and otherwise, as the beneficiaries (mentees/protégés) still seek guidance in different areas of life,...
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WHAT IS ARGUMENTATION?
For clarity’s sake, argumentation is not about the winning of arguments. We do not engage in arguments because we just want to open our mouths. Well put, an argument is a cerebral or mind engagement that involves reasonable interactions between or among the parties involved. Thus, it is an...
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KEY SURVIVAL SKILLS TO DRIVE AND SUSTAIN VALUE IN THE WORLD OF WORK
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future – Brian Tracy We live in a time where skills are the key requirements for...
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WE NEED TO URGENTLY RETHINK OUR EDUCATION
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world – Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela’s quote is a statement of fact. But like the oft-mentioned saying, “knowledge is power,” it is potential. This is because while education is truly the most powerful weapon by which change…
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THE ART OF QUESTIONING
The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing – Albert Einstein. The mind that is both preoccupied with questions and often asks same, is in constant search for answers. Answers are solutions to problems. With every solution, there is value added. We…
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12 WAYS TO ENCOURAGE CREATIVITY IN LEARNERS
To live a creative life, we must first lose the fear of being wrong – Joseph Chilton Pearce How Do I Encourage Creativity in Learners? How do I make my child, pupil, student, mentee, protégé, understudy, follower and tribe/community members creative? Giving an answer to the foregoing appears…
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WHY WOULD A GREAT BRAND LOSE ITS EDGE?
“Successful companies tend to fall into three traps that make the glory days fleeting. First is the physical trap in which big investments in the old systems or equipment prevent the pursuit of fresher, more relevant investments. There’s the psychological trap, in which company leaders fixate on...
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PAY ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE YEAR 2022
As we ventured into the year 2022, I shared 10 ideas that I think young people out there should pay attention to as the year begins. Now, as the year unfolds, I wish to expound on the thoughts to help us navigate through the 2022 terrain. Though it is not an exhaustive list as no one can exhaust…
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BEING COMPASSIONATE AND MORE - THE ENTREPRENEUR'S POTENCIES
It isn't only that leaders are made, self-made mostly and not born; it is that continuing leadership is a matter of behaviour and practices; and not a gift or charisma. It is a responsibility – Peter Drucker. The entrepreneur’s journey into fulfilment is by no means a walkover. Many hurdles dog…
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ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH FOR BUSINESS LEADERS
Good business leaders create vision, articulate the vision, passionately hone the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion. Those were the words of Jack welch.
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PROBLEMS, A SOURCE OF WEALTH. HOW?
Robert Kiyosaki said "Inside of every problem lies an opportunity. Solutions to problems make us rich. The lack of problems make us poor". How deeply ironical both a title and quote are?
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HOW DO I COMMUNICATE MY VISION TO MY PEOPLE?
Getting someone else to link with your deep recess and feed from it is a rare feat that requires perceiving with the mind as oppose to looking with the eyes. True disciples and followers must catch the vision of their leader and run with it before they can be adjudged loyal and sincere.
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A Drop from the Ocean
If you take a drop of water from the ocean, the same properties in that drop is in the larger body of water. The only difference is in the quantity. We are one with the Creator. We are made in His image and likeness. The Fall, however, left us continuously seeking the mundane and vain things...
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Random Thoughts About Content
When you see pictures, motion or otherwise, you both hear words and take a trip or many trips with images. The medium could be the television, it could be face-to-face, or any other. It does have the power to transform if it resonates with you or if you adopt and own it. This transformation could...
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The Power You Seek Resides in You
Oftentimes we seek strength and power from all the wrong places. We look to people to do for us things that we have been equipped to do for ourselves. We seek interdependence before independence, putting the cart before the horse; and by so doing, we depend rather than be independent. While many...
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What it Means to Have a Healthy Mind
Oftentimes we hear of the need to have a sound and healthy mind and I think that this fact cannot be overflogged because the mind is the seat of sanity and an absence of a sound mind means the absence of a healthy mind. This spells doom, regardless of the angle we look at it from. A clarification...
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How to Develop a Healthy Mind
A sound mind is a healthy mind and a healthy mind, a sound mind. The ability to build the mind and sustain its soundness through continuous development guarantees it against rust. Such a mind would save and deliver the owner in critical and otherwise moments. What you feed the mind determines its...
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Discourse on Do You Find Fulfilment in What You Do? (Part 2)
An engaging conversation between Emmanuel Olusola and Joseph Ayeni on the concept on FINDING FULFILMENT in what you do (Part 2). The discourse centres on: Envisioning the benefits of the present The possibility of envisioning the wrong benefit. Is Competition healthy? Difference between…
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Discourse on Do You Find Fulfilment in What You Do?
An engaging conversation between Emmanuel Olusola and Joseph Ayeni on the concept on FINDING FULFILMENT in what you do. The discourse centres on: How important finding fulfilment is How to identify the inner/unusual voice that speaks in times of desperation. Finding your path The concept of…
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Do You Find Fulfilment in What You Do?
Often, I talk to people online and offline about a wide range of issues: family, relationships, job satisfaction, business, just name it. Quite a number of issues are thrown up in the process, and while some of the characters hold on well, some others, indeed the majority, are not able to hold it...
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It is All About the Choices We Make
Proverbs 22:2 KJV The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. A friend shared a post on Facebook. It was about the marriage of the son of Abubakar Atiku to the daughter of Nuhu Ribadu. One statement from the post is: How many times have you heard their kids marry the…
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Why You have to be Intentional
As a human being, you are born with specific senses. As you arrive on the scene, you can see, hear, smell, talk or feel touch automatically because you are a living being. There is a surety to this except there is an impairment or handicap of some sort. These are mere human attributes. Now, just…
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A Dysfunctional Society
According to dictionary.com, dysfunctional means not performing normally as an organ or structure of the body, having a malfunctioning part or element, behaving or acting outside social norms. This last thought, 'behaving or acting outside social norms', is the focus of our discourse because it…
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Thoughts on Prayer
Prayer is a communion between earth and heaven. It is a request made by man on earth to the Divine who dwells in the unseen. But this man on earth follows the will and promises of heaven on earth: 'Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' On the question of heaven, you have to have Divine...
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What is the Worth of Your Investment?
Your investment is the seed you sow today to ensure that you reap fruit tomorrow. What you sow today is what may guarantee what you can get in return tomorrow. The good seed that you have today but refuse to sow because you did not want to lose it will never die and so will not return anything to...
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Good Values are a Prelude to Great Character and Culture
Lao Tzu said: Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
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Slaves Enslave Others
As I learn each day and each time through observation and paying close attention to things, ideas, events and activities of creatures, I find that slaves enslave others, the hungry peddle hunger, the one who plagues others with one form of bondage is actually plagued by a kind of disease which...
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Desires: Your Power of Attraction
When you desire power, when you desire growth, when you thirst for accomplishments in life, when you express strong hunger and zest for something, you are activating the law and power of attraction. Oftentimes you do not know that you are activating those laws because you are truly oblivious of…
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The Discipline of Conviction
It takes the discipline of conviction to stay focused on goals even when you are not seeing the key results you envisaged when you set the goals. While persistence is a great value, it is usually tough when you begin to imagine that you are actually doing the wrong thing or you are doing the…
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Execution Takes Activated Will
According to Seth Godin, "There's no shortage of remarkable ideas. What's missing is the will to execute them." In the world of productivity, nothing can be truer than these words. What is the benefit of supposedly good or great ideas without execution? No idea is really either good or great…
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How Do We Earn from Learning?
Oftentimes, I hear thought leaders, business leaders and others make statements like, 'The more we learn, the more we earn', and it gets me thinking because I do know that there is a difference between the art of learning and the acquisition of knowledge, which is about the first call of the...
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5 Attributes of a Disciplined Mind
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterwards." Napoleon Hill A disciplined mind is a sound mind and vice versa. The mind is disciplined because…
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The Changing Face of Leadership
"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions." Bo Bennet Leadership from the traditional point of view is often perceived from the angle of the position one occupies. This means that everyone looks up to the man at the top for direction and control. This Top-to-Bottom...
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What Is The Right Path For Me?
This is more than multi-million dollar question that many of us deliberately avoid and would rather not have anything to do with. Unfortunately, for the majority who avoid it, this is the one question they should focus their attention on. It is the only question that unlocks the fundamental but...
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What is a Need in My Space and Who Can Meet It?
Everyone needs help and support at different times. There is nobody, however advantaged, that would not use some form of help or support one time or the other. No great leaders, businessman or entrepreneur can achieve their vision alone. They need collaboration and support. Any idea that must…
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You and Your Goals
Most of the time what we have and work hard at manifesting are desires, not exactly goals. And these desires are almost as endless as wants because they are not specific. We desire almost every good thing that we see, so much that, at some point, we can become confused.
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The Code of Uniqueness
No two fingerprints are the same. No one individual has identical palm marks. No two tigers have the same stripes. Why would you want to be anything but original? Why would anyone desire to be anything but authentic? Why would you pay attention to being regular when you were made unique? Why…
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The Strength of a True Vision
The concept of vision is highly misunderstood by many. Vision is just more than dream. It is not just trance. Vision is a knowing. Vision can be a compelling desire that impresses something to you strongly and may not leave you for a long time. A vision can be a thought that persists in your...
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Know the Enemy Well Enough
In the world of warfare, one essential key that great and tactical warriors ignite is the acquisition of adequate and accurate knowledge of their enemies till they can guess the next moves of the enemy. Having accurate intelligence about the enemy is a highly priced achievement. It is premium.
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The World of Premium Value
The world of premium value is the world of cutting-edge productivity where industry accomplishments for service delivery is the measurement because it wins market share. Men who play and win are made of steel though always condemned by weak hands whose preserve is dealing in averages and playing...
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Some People are not Good for You and They are not Bad People
I saw the words, "Some people are not good for you and they are not bad people," on a friend's status on WhatsApp and they were quite fascinating I decided to share it. Still not content with sharing on my social media handles, I am pushed to write an article about the words.
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The Man Who Uses Self-Control
The man who is conscious and constantly applies his consciousness to the things that he is aware of has earned the premium development of the will faculty to live above the whims and caprices of his environment. Such a man has developed habits that bring down achieving but weak men who succumb to...
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A podcast that addresses issues ranging from life lessons, personal development and effectiveness, motivation, spirituality and secularism, mental musings, critical thinking and problem solving, education and learning, entrepreneurship and business, leadership and so on.
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