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[Assistant] If millennials can solve all the problems, then the world will end in their generation.


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[Assistant] The reason why Gen Z are relevant is because of the imperfection of the millennials and of my generation. Gen X, right? So, you don't criticize the imperfection of a generation. Let me speak to young people here.


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[Assistant] Because everything in life, it's marriage I'm talking about. Everything in life, your watch, your car, your ring, you know, your necklace, everything in life is in a state of existence, yes, but a phase of development.


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[Assistant] So your watch looks so perfect. This watch looks like perfect engineering.


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[Assistant] But in the excellence of this watch, not in the mediocrity of it, the future doesn't slip in mediocrity, it slips in excellence as an imperfection.


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[Assistant] The next level of this watch is inside this watch already as an imperfection. What tomorrow's people do is to find the loophole, to find the imperfection.


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[Assistant] The incompleteness in this watch builds solution blueprints around that to define the next level of this watch. So iPhone 14 was in iPhone 13 as a loophole.


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[Assistant] Create the next level of iPhone 14, which is iPhone 15. That's true for a car. It's true for a human being. It's true for everything. So the idea is that nothing is perfect. You and I will never be perfect. The husband that can supply perfect behavior will never be born.


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[Assistant] The wife that can supply prophet behavior will never be born. Now if you insist that only through prophet behavior will you have peace,


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[Assistant] If you say that you are going to hold your environment down to the standards of perfect behavior, then you will never have peace.


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[Assistant] Because nobody in this world will ever supply perfect behavior.


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[Assistant] So imperfection is not flawed. If the garden was perfect, what is, what is the serpent doing there?


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[Assistant] If Adam was perfect, evil would have been unnecessary. Think about it.


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[Assistant] It is the imperfections in things, in places, in people that defines the engagement and continuity for tomorrow's people. So I will have nothing to do.


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[Assistant] Yes. First of all, we need to stop seeing imperfection as a problem.


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[Assistant] We judge imperfection. We should see it as a door.


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[Assistant] We should see it as a pathway because everything in your life, the internet, healthcare, uh, machines, the plane, the car, everything you see in this life were people who were masterful in their ability to question the excellence of today. Find the loopholes in that excellence to form the next level of it. So as we are here today,


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[Assistant] No matter what I see in you, my maturity is to understand that everything you can't master is feedback for how I can help you or leave you alone.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be Agbaro. Ah man, that's my vision. Normally I say when I grow up, guess what, I'm gonna be poor. I'll be poor, then at 54 I will now die.


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[Assistant] It happened to people. People dreamed. They had hopes. Everybody saw positive in their own journey. Nobody ever thought my life would end in jail.


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[Assistant] Nobody said when I grow up man, I'm going to be an armed robber. Nobody said that. Those things happen to people.


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[Assistant] It wasn't what they planned. Now this is what I say to people. You don't become a thief because you stole. You steal because you are a thief. I'll take that again. I'm coming to marriage.


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[Assistant] You don't become a thief because you stole. You steal because you are a thief. Such that if you don't ever have the misfortune of stealing in your lifetime,


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[Assistant] He doesn't make you less a thief, if you are a thief, whatever made you a thief.


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[Assistant] So, so, so when you step on a cockroach, blood cannot come out. Because it doesn't have blood. When you squeeze a car, milk cannot come out.


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[Assistant] It's water, metal, fuel, gas that will come out.


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[Assistant] So when you put pressure on a theme, what will be revealed will not come from outside into the theme and then show up. When you put pressure on a theme, the content of the theme is revealed.


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[Assistant] So if you raise your wife, if you slap your wife, you say, why did you slap her? Eh, because she said so, so, so, so, so, and so to me. And many, many use that line a lot. Because she said, she said she got me angry. True. She got you angry. Right? She got you livid because of what she said.


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[Assistant] If you slap whatever made you a slapper, you are a slapper. That's why you slap.


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[Assistant] When you get into government, people say, oh, when he got into government, he changed. That guy just changed. You know, he used to be a social critic. He used to criticize everything. He now got into government, started stealing. I said, you don't understand.


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[Assistant] When he was telling you, I'm going into government to help you, he meant it. He's talking about his known knowledge.


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[Assistant] He's talking about the knowledge of himself at the level that he knows himself.


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[Assistant] Now government is a pressurized environment anywhere in the world. He got into government, government put him under pressure and decided to steal. What people don't know is that both him and us


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[Assistant] Such that if you never stole, it doesn't make you less a thief. If you are a thief, whatever made you a thief.


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[Assistant] Whatever made you a thief is somewhere in your background. In your upbringing. Because all adult behaviour is evidence in


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[Assistant] So, you can be a thief and never steal.


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[Assistant] Somebody else will hear the same thing. It doesn't feel like criticizing. You feel like criticizing because usually.


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[Assistant] So principles are universal, but experiences are peculiar.


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[Assistant] Because what, what truth is, what fact is to everybody, fact is fact, this is right.


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[Assistant] But truth at that level is relative. What is true is what is the truth.


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[Assistant] So when you are criticizing somebody, you are speaking to what is the, what is true. The truth, right, of what you are dealing with is inside of you. So go check it.


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[Assistant] All the guys who said, my father married two wives, my father was this, it was useless, that somehow they married three wives.


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[Assistant] A friend of mine criticized his dad to the last. I would never marry a second wife in my life. I would never marry two wives. I would never. He said all of that, all the way when you were young. We are in our fifties now. He's still married to one wife, but he has three girlfriends in two different countries with children. One day we were talking and having a drink as old friends and he said, so far for your father with two wives, here we are now. Because,


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[Assistant] You criticize and lean into your destruction from your own wretchedness. We underrate how much we have peaked from the history we have known.


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[Assistant] And how aligned we are with those things, such that when life started happening and puts us under pressure, I was talking to somebody today, and we made the conclusion that zero to 25, zero to 25, your face will look like that one your mom gave you and your dad gave you.


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[Assistant] 25 into your 60s, they're going to look like the decisions you made.


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[Assistant] And so we need to learn to be told judgment. I wish we can get to social media and emotions and reasoning. That will come in there. If we can get there. Let me land on this marriage thing. Let me land on this marriage thing.


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[Assistant] If you understand the imperfections of life, that everything we call genius is the masterfulness of imperfection,


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[Assistant] So, the, the loopholes, and I have the whole law on this, I call it the law of the loopholes.


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[Assistant] The loophole. This is how inventors happen. This is how innovation happen.


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[Assistant] Now imperfection, what you call that is the same word incompleteness. That is what imperfection is. Incompleteness. So if you see rubber in the plantation, it's incomplete. Things need to be done still.


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[Assistant] And we need to pause to be able to gain understanding. So bring it to marriage. Since you are not perfect yourself. Because it's interesting.


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[Assistant] It's interesting that you are not perfect. And you expect perfection. So you are not perfect. To start with. You know what human wretchedness is?


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[Assistant] Part of what human wretchedness is, the ability to tolerate our own wretchedness.


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[Assistant] Without being able to live with somebody else's treatment for a minute.


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[Assistant] So somebody owes you money. And I tell people this every time because I was owing. 2007, 2008, I was owing millions. At that time, the dollar wasn't a hundred naira.


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[Assistant] I was only millions, hundreds of millions. Everybody was looking for me. Anybody in uniform. Boy Scout, Guest Brigade, Police. Anybody in uniform was looking for me.


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[Assistant] People were sure my life has ended. I beat it, paid all my debts. But in that history, I learnt a lot. Part of what I learnt is people come and harass me, pay me my money. I didn't do anything wrong. It was just business failure.


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[Assistant] I didn't commit any crime. It was just business failure. Things didn't go as we planned it. We were not too wise in our judgment and things went wrong. And people came for me, brought police, harassed you, do all kinds of things. Then I told one of them one day, I just got a shift. And I said, this money you are harassing me for. If armed robbers had collected it from you, what will you do? Will you arrest yourself? Will you jail yourself? As a matter of fact, you will go to church to share testimony.


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[Assistant] So it's not this money that is your problem. It's your humanity that is your problem. So, somebody gives you a shoe to wear. And then your company gives you his car to drive. You drive the car and you bashed it.


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[Assistant] There is a wretchedness inside you that will tell you that eeeeh, it's because you drove it. If you have driven it.


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[Assistant] You'd have been more careful. You'd have been more careful you won't bash it, but you could have died. Mmm. Well, what's actually can naturally happen to you. But that is human wretchedness.


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[Assistant] The ability to imagine everybody's wretchedness but yours. So think about it.


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[Assistant] You can live with other people's, you can live with yourself.


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[Assistant] You mess up every day, you don't report to anybody? You don't call anybody?


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[Assistant] You can live with anything you do. You just can live with other people.


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[Assistant] So this complain and a lot of what you are throwing out is a shield to mask your own wretchedness. So come to think about it, I'm not perfect. Why should I hold my wife to the standard of perfect being? So this is what I say to people.


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[Assistant] Peace is superior to justice. The pursuit of peace


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[Assistant] Young people should learn to say no. Adults should learn to say yes.


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[Assistant] As an adult, you have to get skilled in your ability to use yes, particularly in the marriage contest. And the way that works is, your husband comes to you on a million things. Once they are not the major things, just get used to saying yes.


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[Assistant] Get used to saying yes. You know why? Because every yes you say empowers your no in the day of usage.


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[Assistant] So, make your yes generous. Because every generosity with your yes empowers your no in the day of using. You will use your no. You will put your feet on the ground, but it will be easier. Because your environment is already used to your default yes.


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[Assistant] The family environment is not popular culture.


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[Assistant] As in man, you are a warrior outside. You are a warrior in the womb.


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[Assistant] So you can't bring your warrior mentality into your home, you will destroy it.


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[Assistant] Right? So when you get home, you leave your shield, your sword, your gun, you leave all of them by the gate. You come into the house defenseless.


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[Assistant] As a matter of fact, I can tell you for free that there are no two similar marriages.


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[Assistant] So what is God when I tap into it? I want this.


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[Assistant] The, the, the idea of the home function is not even the communication of values. It's deeper than that. It's the culturing of independence. So your home, with due respect, cannot instruct mind.


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[Assistant] Not one instruction. In fact, I say to people, what is the role of a mentor in your life? A mentor should not tell you what to do.


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[Assistant] A mentor giving you instruction is either over benevolent or oppressive.


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[Assistant] When you are my mentor, your job is to increase my view. Give me a helicopter view, expand my options. You sit in my war room.


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[Assistant] On my own, I'm seeing three angles. With my mentor, I'm seeing seven. What makes me to make a decision.


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[Assistant] Leave me to make that decision. Right?


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[Assistant] And that is how we have to deal with marriage as well.


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[Assistant] But it begins with understanding that every stakeholder in the home is imperfect. Your children are imperfect. You are imperfect. Your husband is imperfect. Your wife is imperfect. So there is a humility that should breed. Right?


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[Assistant] So for me, the biggest words in the home are words like forgiveness.


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[Assistant] What's like tolerance? What's like grit? Endurance? You will need them. I mean, take a look at this. My mom is now 80, I think 84. I think 84 years old. My father died many years ago at 83.


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[Assistant] I'm 53. My mom and I still disagree sharply. We still disagree sharply. My siblings, we grew up together. We lived together for decades. We still disagree sharply at times. How do you now bring a woman into your own life?


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[Assistant] You and your mom, that has, that give birth to you, you still disagree.


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[Assistant] Sharply, how are you now shocked that your wife and you and your wife are disagreeing? Or you and your husband are disagreeing?


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[Assistant] All of those things are just smallness of understanding.


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[Assistant] So, the predicament for me is situational. That's what, that's what you're talking about. Those are situational.


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[Assistant] To keep your life going, you need positioning. I started with that.


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[Assistant] Right? Not so that situations become, you know, simplified when you have a position.


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[Assistant] Most people don't have a position. So for me, there are eleven ideas that keep your marriage going.


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[Assistant] Because of time. I'll share some. So they're like, they're like software. Right? They're like software. What happens when a software is outdated?


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[Assistant] The ideas, the assumptions and the principles that started that relationship are now outdated.


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[Assistant] And I live two faces. I live three faces. Faces with my parents. I'm going to a boarding house and living with my friends. Then a face where I was not spiritual and living now the pain of the years with friends and family.


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[Assistant] Just know what she likes. Now, once you get what she likes, it doesn't matter what you like. Posture for what she likes. She likes roses, give her roses. She likes cards, give her cards.


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[Assistant] She likes to go to a restaurant, dinners, make dinners. Do what she likes, just forget about yours.


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[Assistant] And if you stay there long enough, you get into a hut. That's what we were told. We did that. Except that we got married and suffered relapse.


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[Assistant] We're doing it because we're not to get into our head. We're not negotiating our own heart.


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[Assistant] Now, that did not say two cannot work together except they are similar.


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[Assistant] So I have a problem with compatibility on many levels. Because similarity is not the goal of this agreement.


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[Assistant] We don't need to be similar to agree. The Bible did not say two cannot work together except they are dissimilar. Except they are dissimilar. Except they agree.


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[Assistant] So, we can be two different, it's agreement that created this room. Yes. It's agreement. That I'm here as a guest, that you guys are together, that we are, it's agreement. We don't need to be similar at all to agree if we agree on how we are going to live together. This is what we are going to do. The problem is there is no agreement. So even if you marry an angel without an agreement, you are going to suffer, you know, the challenge of updates.


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[Assistant] Whatever assumption that brought it together will go, will expire and you will need updates and you don't know, you didn't even know the software, the operating system that was on ground before. How much more to take the updates?


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[Assistant] You see what I'm saying? So it comes back to understanding what are the ideas that define the peculiarity of our exchange. I'll give you one of those rules. Whether you like it or not, you are going to offend each other. Oh, obviously. It's not about if, it's about when. And in a year, with all humility, it's going to happen almost 300 times.


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[Assistant] Or luau. And some of them will be intense than the other. We are going to refinance. If you don't know how to manage that, it's only a matter of time.


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[Assistant] One of the ideas is how do we handle conflict? How do we handle conflict? I'll give you an example. Both of us are offended. The force to apologize, sorry. The force to apologize, sorry. The force to complain is the recipient of the apology. Yes. What that means is that both of us are offended. I'm the one that said I didn't like what you did. You too, I didn't like what you two did, no?


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[Assistant] So, I don't like what you did. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just an attitude. You don't just say I'm sorry. Apology must come with declaration, which is I'm sorry. Reason, which is why are you sorry.


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[Assistant] So you have to come and say, I'm really sorry about that. I know, you know, this is how your mind was working. I think I shouldn't have done this.


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[Assistant] There are some other things that I feel I should talk about, but I don't think this is the time for that. I think I should just focus on...


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[Assistant] Once he complains first, or she complains first, you have the right to present yours.


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[Assistant] Right? Now, these things, if it's not, these are skills, though.


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[Assistant] These are not things you are born with. You are not born with the ability to be a doctor. These are skills. Now, you don't need, you know, parenting, husbandhood, wifehood. They are not gifts of nature. They are skills.


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[Assistant] You know, punishment is an embarrassment of nature. Any fool can punish somebody. It's your ability to offer the next person a weight of your feeling.


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[Assistant] To pass how you are feeling to somebody else. That's easy. Right? So any fool can get angry. You don't need to go to a classroom to know how to make a fool, but to correct somebody. That's a skill.


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[Assistant] Punishment is an embarrassment of nature. Correction is a skill.


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[Assistant] And research has shown that over 90% of parents don't correct their children in their lifetime. They only punish.


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[Assistant] Over 90% of parents don't correct. Let me take it deeper. Research has shown that over 90% of parents don't correct their children for doing what is wrong. They correct them for doing what they don't like.


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[Assistant] By the time you put what they are complaining about in context, it didn't do anything wrong. You just don't like it. If it goes to the home of the Jamesons.


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[Assistant] Did we celebrate what she did? What she did? Yeaah. What are you punishing him for?


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[Assistant] You don't like it, it doesn't make it wrong. Unfortunately, you are not training your children for your house. You are training them for the world. So if they keep all your rules in the home,


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[Assistant] And you don't understand the science that works in society. They are going there to malfunction.


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[Assistant] They will make promises to you. They will make promises to themselves. They will break as many as they have made.


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[Assistant] These are ideas that must govern it. For example, thought parties.


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[Assistant] That's another rule. Thought parties, 11 ideas, thought parties.


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[Assistant] What is the role of your dad, your mom, my dad, my mom, friends?


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[Assistant] Where are their voices? We have to determine all of these things, clearly.


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[Assistant] Right? Under that conflict management, how do we resolve? Let me give you a situation.


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[Assistant] Now, I say this humbly, in a year as a couple, it's a research we have done, in a year as a couple, you are going to have at least seven opportunities to be in this situation. I want to describe that. He sincerely believes this is the way out of this room, not this way.


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[Assistant] And he believes sincerely. He's not trying to prove a point. He's not trying to be mean. Sincerely in his heart, this is the way out, not this way. And he believes that if we go this way, we die. We die. If you want to live, this is the way out. Sincerely. Sincerely. I also believe this is the way out.


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[Assistant] If we go this way, we die. Sincerely, I don't hate him. I'm not trying to fight him. I'm not trying to prove any point to him. Sincerely in my heart, I just believe this is the way out. This is the way out, not here. And if we go out here, we die. He says if we go out here, we live. I say if we go out here, we live. He says if we go out here, we die. How do we resolve that? In a year.


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[Assistant] But both of you are going to sincerely hold completely two different views with a threat at the other end of the decisions. How do you resolve that?


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[Assistant] That's why marriages crash. One of the key reasons marriages crash on a daily. Because whether you like it or not, you are going to gravitate towards that.


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[Assistant] So when people say equality in marriage, I understand it. But I say define it. Because how do you get out of that?


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[Assistant] How do you get out there with your children? You're going to get out there with your children, in fact, more than seven times.


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[Assistant] With your children. With your children. They're going to get into that situation many times.


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[Assistant] How are you able to resolve it? They don't think you are superior to them, but they think you are dying. You've been here for a while.


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[Assistant] You know, some kids believe their parents are not smart. If you keep punishing your children for doing what you don't like, not for doing what is wrong, they will soon find out that, oh, that is not smart.


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[Assistant] Because everything he punishes me for, the Ajais reward me for it.


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[Assistant] Their friends reward me for it. They praise me for it in school. It's only in my house that they punish me for it. After all, so, daddy is not a smart person.


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[Assistant] And then your conflict begins. When you are talking, the second guess in it is scrutinizing it. I know he's not smart. I know kids who believe their dad is not smart.


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[Assistant] I know kids will believe that their mom is fun, fun, fun, she's not smart. I know kids will have told me, but you know my mom is not smart.


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[Assistant] My mom can dress well, she can shop from head to head but she's not smart. She's not intelligent at all. Kids have told me that.


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[Assistant] If it's not resolved as a position from the beginning, and you install this software into your system, with due respect,


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[Assistant] Once you didn't do it from the beginning, an intervention must come and install it. That would not be a problem because it's going to continue, right? You're going to continue to reinforce that path. Over and over. Over and over.


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[Assistant] So if you come down to it, from the beginning, we say, okay, like I said,


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[Assistant] They say mother. The problem with the message of equality, and I always say to people, freedom without rules is advice. The highest level of freedom is psychosis. When you are very free, you are naked on the street, walking away. That's the highest level of freedom. There's freedom of speech, but there's light bail.


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[Assistant] There's freedom of movement, but there's trespass. You are free to move, but you're not free to come to my house. If you come into my house, I'm going to resist you, right? Do you have freedom of movement? So, freedom is like emotions. Freedom, like emotions, must be subjected to reasoning. Reasoning must be guided by truth before you move to action.


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[Assistant] You don't use your right, your freedom to take action.


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[Assistant] You don't use your emotion to interpret action, you will destroy the world. You have to subject them to reasoning and allow. So between E and A, emotion and action.


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[Assistant] Between F and A, freedom and action is reasoning and truth.


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[Assistant] And when you take those two out and you move emotion to action or freedom to action, they're gonna destroy your environment and destroy yourself. Interesting. So, part of that is to put a leech here. And slow down. And know that when it comes to equality, we are husband and wife. We are equal, meaning that you are not superior to me. I'm not superior to you. But we need a system. We are running a system. We are not living in our own cocoon. We are living in the world.


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[Assistant] Yes, now that because you are the chief executive officer.


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[Assistant] He doesn't mean you are a better human being than me. He doesn't even mean you are superior to me, but we are going to take decisions. And the irrationality of the human condition cannot allow that to be tabular. We just can't leave it.


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[Assistant] Excuse me. That we disagree is a constant. You have a different view, I'll have a different view. And that's fine.


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[Assistant] But when we get there, how do we solve it? So if you don't trust me now,


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[Assistant] So what are we doing? Because many times in a marriage, as my wife, you are going to come to me and say, let's do it this way. And I would agree.


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[Assistant] How do I express that? You also just, you just don't say no. Like I said, if you have also made yes, default, those kind of things would be easier.


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[Assistant] So, because he act wise most of the time, he has a reputation for wisdom. So they say he's a wise person. It doesn't mean he doesn't act foolish.


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[Assistant] His foolishness is rare. His wisdom is more. So this is a wise person. A foolish person also acts wise.


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[Assistant] It's just that he acts foolish most of the time. And he acts wise occasionally. So his many acts of foolishness give him a reputation as a foolish person. It doesn't mean he doesn't take wise actions.


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[Assistant] But his wisdom is rare. So on your best day, you will get things right.


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[Assistant] 2019. Did I know that COVID was going to happen?


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[Assistant] Did I know that there is some gloom ahead? Yes, I knew. For so many reasons. First of all, there's the law of every hundred years.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's the fact of every 500 years. Right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so those numbers are there. Don't forget, this is my own work as a futurist.


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[Assistant] Of things, of products, of markets, of everything. So...


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[Assistant] 2023, 2020, 2021, 2023, anybody who followed me know that I said, whatever you did or did not do from 2020 all the way to 2023 is excusable. Even if you slept for three years, it's fine. The universe and the contraption that engineered that season permits you to get away with anything.


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[Assistant] Decisions you made, it's okay. You will not pay for it. The universe will not hold you accountable to it.


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[Assistant] Whatever you did. From 2020 to 2023.


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[Assistant] 2020 is a bad year. Let me tell you what a bad year is. A bad year is a year that would define all the other years above it. That the next 10, 20 years above it will slip on that year.


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[Assistant] For example, the world wars were bad years.


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[Assistant] The first world war give back to the, uh, silent generation.


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[Assistant] The 1929 global depression gave birth to another set of kids, right?


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[Assistant] The second world war gave birth to baby boomers. And it defined who that generation became, right? Those are bad years. Covid, 2020 is a bad year.


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[Assistant] Now, on that bed here, a decade will be built, which is the next ten years.


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[Assistant] Don't forget that we are then moving from 20- 20-


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[Assistant] 2030 is the end of the 2020s. We're moving to the 2030s, right? Between 2030 and 2050, right, if you are privileged to be alive, you'll be sure. You know how...


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[Assistant] We have, people were riding camels and now we are flying. That is how life will be. There are two scientists in Spain.


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[Assistant] Who believe that they've written a book called The Death of Death. They believe, you know, their choice to age will be suicide in the future. They believe that by 2045, uhm,


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[Assistant] Human beings will not die by, by natural causes. They will be dying by accidents, by, or by them eliminating themselves.


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[Assistant] It sounds stupid, but in a world where people are already making, growing human air,


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[Assistant] Ready to 3D print a human kidney or liver.


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[Assistant] Ready to actually make human spare parts on many levels. The possibilities for the future are incredible. Space is luxury in the future. Touch is luxury in the future.


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[Assistant] I can touch you now. I'm going to pay a lot of money to do this in the future.


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[Assistant] Because there will be technology that allows us to have our highest misery and deepest bliss alone without human contact. So when I was growing up in secondary school, when we go to final year and we're leaving high school, there's a song we sing.


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[Assistant] You see, once they raise that song, everybody begins to cry. In 1996, when I finished secondary school, you will cry. You know why you are crying? You know the song is true. God be with you. Till we meet again.


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[Assistant] The chance of us meeting again is very slim. Very few of us who are able to bond


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[Assistant] Maybe on the next school we are going or the geography we move to, we'll see each other again, right?


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[Assistant] There's no social media. When people leave, they leave.


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[Assistant] When somebody's getting married in London, you don't know when your classmate is buying the house in Italy. You're not aware, right?


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[Assistant] Today, because I'm a public speaker, I still go to validity services. And when they sing the same song, I say that kids don't cry anymore.


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[Assistant] Because of that video reality and the ability to replay the past, which is photography and video.


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[Assistant] 15 years after both of you, one of them is getting married, the other is not married, you don't even know, except you stay connected. It's not easy way back, because you have to be middle class to have a telephone.


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[Assistant] So, once you don't have those things already, your options are already limited. There were no 24 hour TV. So the ability to even see the world is limited. You have to physically move. If you want to see your cousin in Ikorodo,


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[Assistant] Or you are in Dallas, you want to see your cousin in Houston. You are going to travel to find out that he just left two minutes ago. Right?


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[Assistant] Time is saved. Precision is engineered now because with a text message, I can know before I leave. I can call him and look at him before I leave where I am. So I save time, right? The world has changed. Now, I don't... Some years ago, the time I was describing, I don't know where you got married. If you buy a belt now, I will know. Because you go on Instagram and do a belting.


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[Assistant] Belting Joe. We are belting. And then you put it there. You buy a food, you do a video of your food. So now, when you give birth, when you get married,


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[Assistant] In 1986, if I don't like it, if I'm not happy that you are not married, right?


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[Assistant] I have to tuck it in. I can't show it to you. Can't say anything about it. I have to pretend that I like it.


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[Assistant] The beauty, the misery of technology, which is what I call privacization.


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[Assistant] The ability of the human spirit to have its highest bliss or deepest darkness alone without human contact.


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[Assistant] You can be alone in your room and be talking to the whole world and the whole world is seeing you. You're supposed to be in a private place, but you are in a public place. Though you are in a private location. So public has a new meaning.


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[Assistant] Private has a new meaning. Public has a new meaning. Right? So the old theme has changed and as we move into the future, it's going to be more and more a rest of time.


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[Assistant] So, there'll be driverless cars, people are going to be ordering enough food, e-commerce will grow. Right? So think about it.


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[Assistant] To be able to travel from Nigeria to the United States.


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[Assistant] You understand? It's gonna be, I was talking to him, easy to travel. When we're coming, I said the future of travel is luxury. Because...


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[Assistant] It would be easier to have everything you want without touching each other.


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[Assistant] What is that telling you? It's telling you about the fact that the world is changing, and it's changing on five lines. How we live, how we love, how we play, how we walk, and how we die.


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[Assistant] And every idea, product, service, technology, everything coming is impacting on those five areas. That's what we call cultural shaping.


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[Assistant] Whatever you are doing, if it has no impact on those five years, you are jogging in the dark. You are jogging fast with determination into irrelevance. That's what is happening. If you have to be relevant, those five things are in front of you. Now what that means is that the next seven years, from 2020, now don't forget what I said, 2020 to 2023, you are free. It's excusable. It's excusable.


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[Assistant] But from 2024 to January 1st to 2030, whatever you did or did not do is the remainder of your life. Your life, now I tell people you don't have to believe me. You don't have to believe me.


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[Assistant] But I kid you not. Buildings have foundations, cars have architecture, journeys have map.


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[Assistant] The map of your next 30 years. Think about it though. Anybody living today, I don't care if you are age one, whatever your age is, anybody breathing today, even if you are a day old, in 30 years, you will be in one of three places.


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[Assistant] You are so full blown as an adult, you are the departure lounge of life, ready to take the flight. Or, you will have taken the flight.


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[Assistant] Let's do the math. If you are 1, you'll be 30. 31. 31. If you are 10, you'll be 40. 40. If you are 20, you'll be 50. 50. So I told my friend, I said, this your son, he'll be 42. Because he's 12 now. He'll be 42. He said, wow, you'll be so old. I said, you'll be dead. Remember that you'll be dead.


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[Assistant] Because you'll be in your 80s. That you'll be alive. How many 80s, how many 90-somethings do you know? If you are 30, you'll be 60.


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[Assistant] If you are 40, you'll be 70. If you are 50, you'll be 80. If you are 60, you'll be 90. How many 90 year olds do you know?


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[Assistant] 70, you will either be dead or you will not be participating.


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[Assistant] It makes sense. It should be your foundation. In fact, we have been generous.


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[Assistant] Because 10% of that is 3. Yes. So to even give you, we've given you 20% and more and extra as 6 years. So 7 years is the foundation of your next 30 years.


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[Assistant] Whatever you do or did not do in the next seven years is the foundation of the remainder of your life.


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[Assistant] And by December 34th night, 2030, that foundation will be completed.


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[Assistant] Great, so just like I began to talk about the fact of technology, it's a major instrument in the social media space.


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[Assistant] Now everything you call social media is the arrest of three things. The first one is the arrest of reasoning.


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[Assistant] And the third one is the arrest of freedom. Now, social media is also the gift of three things. The gift of community.


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[Assistant] The, uhm, the, the, the gift of community, the gift of, of, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the, and the arrest, sorry, and the gift of space, time, and matter. Yes. Because the three of them are collapsed because of social media. We are now borderless. Yeah. The gift of borderlessness. Yes. The gift of democratization and the gift of community.


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[Assistant] Let's talk, let's go back to the arrest. The arrest of reasoning.


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[Assistant] You see, in 2016, November 16th, I will never forget because that's the day I got married. Not 2016 but November 16th. Yes.


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[Assistant] November 16, 2016, a new word was accepted into the English dictionary. It's called post-truth. Post-truth. Post-truth.


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[Assistant] Now look at the word post-truth. It suggests that there was pre-truth.


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[Assistant] There was truth and there was post truth. What does that even mean? Post truth. So the world is now ready.


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[Assistant] To define their meaning and their reality beyond the limits of truth.


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[Assistant] That's post truth. Post truth. We are now saying we can now define the energy of our exchange


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[Assistant] Now we are in truth. And when man was in the jungle, there was no truth. When life was brutal, brutal, short, jungle, we were running around with horses and spear and all of that, there was no truth. In the Stone Age, there was no truth. There was no common law, there was no justice, there was no truth.


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[Assistant] Then we got into truth with enlightenment. We got into truth and there was a generation and generation of enlightenment. Now we are saying we are ready to go beyond truth. And how is that working? I'll use the most lay on the interpretation of it. What it means is that


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[Assistant] And now more powerful than objective reasoning.


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[Assistant] Feelings, emotions, personal views.


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[Assistant] And now more powerful and more credible than objective reasoning.


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[Assistant] What does that even mean? That means that how we feel about the truth is more important than what the truth is about.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter what the truth is about. What we feel about it is more important than what the truth is about.


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[Assistant] Without this, you can now understand there wouldn't be Brexit. Because Brexit was...


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[Assistant] Made happen on fake fact. Fake, fake news. People were saying lies.


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[Assistant] Without that, there won't be populism as we know it. Donald Trump will not have reason.


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[Assistant] Probably Emmanuel Macron, we're not representative of France, if not for post-truth. We can go on and on. Right? Maybe, maybe they won't even be obedient, because of, without post-truth.


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[Assistant] And I mean it, because when you look at the way that knowledge progresses and expands today, it expands based on how we feel.


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[Assistant] So we are thinking less, we are feeling more. So what's like total quality management? It's now dead.


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[Assistant] There's nothing like total quality management anymore. Because if you sell the most qualitative product, and now sell the worst product.


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[Assistant] But for some reason, the way I tell my story. Yes, the way I paint it to be. I paint it to be of this terrible product unlocks the feelings of people.


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[Assistant] By, by, by, by courses, what do you mean? I mean that, uhm, advocacy. Okay, okay, yeaah, courses, courses, courses. They believe in courses, they believe in advocacy, they believe in rights.


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[Assistant] And I'm standing for it. So if you want to sell a


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[Assistant] If it's, if you say, oh, this cake is made of so-so milk.


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[Assistant] So, so sugar is so quality, it's gonna grow you, help you to be strong, and this is what the sugar does for you, la la la la. You're talking to my generation.


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[Assistant] For every cake that you buy, we give two cakes to Africa.


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[Assistant] That is, they are digital natives. They are growing up with the world.


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[Assistant] That has no, less and less of manual expression in it. Everything they have known is digital.


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[Assistant] And so they know speed. They are, they are less patient. They want now due process has to be explained. Uhm, uhm, patience can be non-existent.


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[Assistant] You then look at that and so, so, how does that populate? How does that populate? The way, the way that works is you then, uhm, you then look at everything that is going on in the world without the soul of truth in it. It means that people will believe anything.


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[Assistant] We'll accept anything as long as it agrees with how they want to feel.


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[Assistant] Even if it is wrong. So your cake will not sell. Not because it's not the best cake. But because it doesn't unlock.


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[Assistant] So imagine that, imagine that I want to, I want to be popular.


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[Assistant] In 1986, if I want to be popular, it's hard work.


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[Assistant] You're going to walk your life out to get your streets to know that you exist.


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[Assistant] How much more to get the world to know that you exist. People like Michael Jackson or Mahatma Gandhi, Mandela have to be praised because they


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[Assistant] They got popular without the blessing of social media.


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[Assistant] In this generation, you can go on social media.


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[Assistant] Now, sex tape was made in private. But like I said, private and public are the same. Somebody is able to record that and put it to the public, do what happened in private.


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[Assistant] And then the whole world went gaga. And then they want to see that person. You remember that lady that came on the final of Champions League naked? Uhm, some years ago?


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[Assistant] You know how our social media, you know, and the whole body was, everybody was talking about her. Everybody was talking about her from nowhere. She got all the likes, she just did something crazy.


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[Assistant] In my generation, when I was growing up, we are still alike, but when I was growing up, when you do something wrong, you are punished, judged, persecuted for doing the wrong thing. For example, if you put yourself naked on the street, you are going to regret it. You will regret it deeply. Now, I can make you, I can put myself naked on the street. The same reaction will happen. People will not like me.


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[Assistant] They will call me names. They will criticize me. Except that for them to be able to do that, they must go and watch me.


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[Assistant] And they must like, they must give a comment. They must dislike or like. They must comment. They must give me views.


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[Assistant] Now, YouTube doesn't pay me for supporting views. YouTube pays me for views.


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[Assistant] Even if it's a beefing view. So if you view and you say nonsense, look at this girl, useless girl, it's a view.


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[Assistant] YouTube doesn't check whether it's a good, supportive view or an antagonizing view. It's just people's views. So even beef is not a strategy.


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[Assistant] I can now do things that will make all of you mad. And in your madness, you are all coming to me.


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[Assistant] Because you are facing a world on social media that is as fickle as the next vibration. I say this humbly but I always tell people when you are in a crisis


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[Assistant] You know, and I've had a privilege of training 16 unit heads from all over the world about PR.


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[Assistant] Just when the law in PR used to be the one hour golden rule. What you do in the first hour of a crisis year. When it was big. When social media was just nascent. I was flew- flown to Dubai.


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[Assistant] To teach 16 unit aides of PR to talk about the 24, the one hour golden rule.


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[Assistant] And in all humility, I said no. One hour golden rule, it's not like that anymore. One hour golden rule is in the past. On many levels. First of all, there's social media now. What you do in the first few minutes is important. Even the first second.


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[Assistant] I said, but more than that, let me tell you something else. Silence. The new king.


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[Assistant] There's nothing you face in this life. If you can be silent for three months, it will die. The lifespan of bad news is three months.


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[Assistant] No matter how crazy your situation is, something bigger will happen. Big brother will start. Or Super Eagles will win a match. Something will happen. 90 days max.


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[Assistant] No matter what you are facing, the best it can be is breaking news.


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[Assistant] The world has so changed that depending on what you are compartmentalizing, there's so much room for nothing.


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[Assistant] The noisiest is the wisest. People like me, it's difficult. No matter what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] So you carry your ignorance with class and swag.


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[Assistant] And then the crazy thing is that everything is not tractionable. Foolishness has followed us.


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[Assistant] Yes. And what has now happened with social media is that no matter how foolish you are, you have a girlfriend. But now you have followers because social media can now expand it. So no matter how dumb you are,


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[Assistant] 18 million people can believe in that trap. Let's be correct. There are more foolish people in the world than wise.


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[Assistant] Foolishness. Wisdom, don't choke with that. Wisdom will be useless. It is the rarity of an idea that defines its relevance.


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[Assistant] It means there is a set of behaviour that conforms to a definition. As you cannot call a carpenter a surgeon, or call a poet a lawyer.


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[Assistant] So you cannot call a foolish person a wise person, or call a wise person a foolish person. Foolishness is also an office, and somebody will occupy it, whether we like it or not, as wisdom is an office.


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[Assistant] Who will occupy it is a suppositional discussion. The choices of mortals will decide that. But somebody will occupy it.


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[Assistant] So, so there is traction science. Because traction is a science. It can happen through catalysts. Somebody can make you popular. It can happen on your own. Right? You know?


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[Assistant] I always tell, I consult for different organizations. And then, even churches.


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[Assistant] And then you hear a pastor say something like, everybody in church, bring out your phone.


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[Assistant] Now, go to the church account is at Father Father Ministry. Go to the church account. Now, everybody press follow.


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[Assistant] Because you want to grow. You think because you have five thousand members.


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[Assistant] You should have 5,000 followers. It doesn't work that way.


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[Assistant] But beyond that, you ask yourself, so, if you need to have a people to create your followership, how do Lady Gaga do it?


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[Assistant] And what social media has done that people don't understand is that on one spot,


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[Assistant] On one spot is, is the borderless energy that I spoke about. On one spot, without human contact, if your masquerade can dance well enough, the whole world will come and watch it dance.


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[Assistant] If you set yourself on fire, they say, the whole world will watch you burn.


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[Assistant] The real thing about social media is that we have internet.


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[Assistant] The internet is all the computers and all the phones in the world on one spot. Right?


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[Assistant] So I tell business people, whenever you are doing right now, anybody can see you.


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[Assistant] Obama can see you right now. Warren Buffett can see you. Anybody can see you.


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[Assistant] So the energy for traction.


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[Assistant] The fluidity of words like popularity, influence are now more subtle.


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[Assistant] Their qualification for birthing those experiences are now easier, right? Technology is a miracle.


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[Assistant] And I tell people every time, a miracle is not when somebody's eyes open.


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[Assistant] That is the representation of a miracle. It's the drama of a miracle. A miracle is anything that, uhm, brings speed, efficiency, right, and affordability. That's a miracle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because see, we live in a world that, like I said, truth is now an endangered species.


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[Assistant] True. And everybody wants to be comfort. That's the word. And we glamorize poor decisions.


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[Assistant] I'm not a nice person. Because when you try to be nice, you are going to compromise principles.


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[Assistant] You will say yes when you should say no. You will say no when you should say yes.


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[Assistant] Because you are busy trying to be liked, not trying to be respected.


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[Assistant] Now, if you want to be liked, then you have to forgo your right to be respected. You may not be liked, but people will respect you. Right? And I'm focused on respect. And respect is not about perfect behavior.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to be perfect. I don't hold myself to that standard. And I don't hold anybody to that standard. Right? But I take pleasure in the quality of my environment. The energy that people exude around me.


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[Assistant] Thought has a presence. Yes. Thought has a presence. A foolish person doesn't need to say anything. Just foolishness in the room can be articulated depending on how present you are as a person. And I've taken so many foolish decisions in my life that at 53 I think I have a right


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[Assistant] That thing I said, confident ignorance, that was me, some years ago.


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[Assistant] There's confident, there's assertive emptiness. There's drifting consciousness.


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[Assistant] Where you are conscious, but you are drifting through life.


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[Assistant] You, you, you are around, but you are not present. Right? And you are sharing energy that weakens your environment and doesn't lift it. And you are doing it confidently based on your non-knowledge. Now we have to add wisdom to non-knowledge, to bad newness. So a lot of times we come to people, we say what they want to hear, but we leave them worse than they were. Right?


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[Assistant] For me, I've asked myself, what is my goal? Why, why do I live? I'm a lifter. I'm a connector.


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[Assistant] I connect people to people, but more than that, I connect people to invisible parts within the arena that they can't see. Yeah. That is part of my job. If you are foolish, I have to find a way to hug you and tell you so. You are foolish.


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[Assistant] Somebody told me one time, you know, this thing I'm doing, you know, I'm not going to give up. I said, brother, you must give up. Giving up is a skill.


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[Assistant] You have to know when to give up. If you hold on to what God is not backing up.


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[Assistant] No matter how sincere you are, people are sincerely in prison. People are sincerely poor. People are sincerely killed. Sincerely raped. Sincerely destroyed. Sincerity is not the factor of production. Land, labor, capital, entrepreneurial. There's no sincerity there. You can be sincerely stupid. You can be sincerely foolish. Right? You can be confidently, assertively dumb. These are realities.


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[Assistant] You understand what I'm saying? So, you have to outgrow the limits of sincerity. Just like hope. Hope is a tool of performance. It does not perform.


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[Assistant] Right, because hope is not an independent variable, it's a dependent one.


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[Assistant] You need to add a lot of other things to help to bring sense out of it.


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[Assistant] Then you are that person who has celebrated destiny away from your own sense of mission and sense of thoroughness. Meaning that if God says I will be rich, I will be rich.


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[Assistant] If God says, I will be, I will be this, I will be that. Really? So I tell them, you believe that much in destiny? Then go home today. And you are hungry. Don't put the yam on the table. Don't cut it.


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[Assistant] Or put it on the table, put the knife, put the match, don't light anything, don't put any water, don't put any pot. And say, if God says I'll be full, I'll be full. You're not going to be full. You are going to die there. And if really you begin to pray and the yam begin to cut itself and enter the pot.


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[Assistant] Is the same idea about this, somebody is doing you, about diabolism, and all of that. People from your village. You know, people from your village and all of that. A curse in itself.


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[Assistant] Requires attitudinal cooperation for expression.


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[Assistant] A course in itself requires attitudinal cooperation. In other words, if I'm hard working, right, and you say I'll be poor, you are wasting your time.


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[Assistant] Right? That is why when you, when jazz was jazz, I mean you could go to a, a chief priest now and he will give you coke, you know.


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[Assistant] Right? Where was, I mean, if, if jazz was jazz, how did the white man get away with slave trade? How did he get away with colonialism? How many should have called his name?


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[Assistant] There's premise for that context. There's the principle in that premise. There's the dispensation and there's palliative. Those four experiences, those five experiences matter. And so some people deserve honest comfort. They need it. Some people need, uhm, good talk therapy.


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[Assistant] Because I was telling him that I want to start a party called Zero. And it's a party.


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[Assistant] And we're just gonna come in to have fun. It's zero. That is, we came to the world with nothing, we grew with nothing. But it's fun. There'll be drinks, food, and everything. But at some point we all come together and talk. I said, but the things I want to talk about there are things that you could have lived for 80 years and never hear.


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[Assistant] You could easily have lived for 75 years and never heard those things. That's what I want to talk about. Because I found out that your world is your reality.


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[Assistant] There's so much world, so much more in the world than your reality. Yes. Because reality is not true. It's a partial representation of truth and a symbol at best.


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[Assistant] So, there are people who are in crisis, they just never heard what you hear.


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[Assistant] So I say to people, don't confuse what is easy for you to do for what is easy.


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[Assistant] It can be easy for you based on the graces of your life. The exposure. So many things that made you you. Right? We say house helps are, they cannot do this, you are screaming on your driver.


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[Assistant] Do you know, you say your house help cannot do this, cannot put this here, so you shout, you put him down or put her down, but you forgot that. What do you want her to do?


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[Assistant] To know the difference between the spoon for ice cream and the one for tea and the one for a soup and the one for cake. Or to know the difference between, you know, a glass for white wine and a glass for red wine.


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[Assistant] Do you know all it took for you to know that? You had a university degree, you had a master's degree, you've been watching movies since you were age two, you've read comics, you've read novels. There's a lot of education that has come into your life. Your teacher, the school you went to, your environment, the billboards you saw, the places you traveled to, the friends you were blessed to have made you into that. When you scream on the house help, you are asking her to think like you.


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[Assistant] No, she doesn't have what you have. She doesn't have your context, your assumptions, your premises, the palliative, the disposition that defines you. She's not in it.


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[Assistant] If she can really think like you, would she be a house help? She'll be a madam somewhere too. Screaming on somebody. So...


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[Assistant] She is a girl that grew up in an Amala joint. They've been crossing her, waking her up with... That's how they talk to her. Where is this fool from age three? That's the girl you brought into your house at age 15. And you want her to interpret the science of this house and the architecture of this house, right? So there's a place for empathy.


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[Assistant] The same thing happens to your chauffeur and to your driver. I was talking to him today when we were coming here. I said, anybody that cannot think, anybody that cannot think qualifies for your empathy.


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[Assistant] So if you are in my office and you are a driver, cleaner, how much, no matter how much you steal, I rather ignore you. How much can you even possibly steal? I will engage with my accountant, ED. We are on the same level, so we can hold each other to the same standard.


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[Assistant] But you have no idea how much option is missing in the life of a cleaner and what created that experience for him.


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[Assistant] So I will still look at context for me to define how to respond to somebody who was a coming society.


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[Assistant] Because when you go into context, you see the peculiarity of experiences that defines the level of attention each individuality deserves in that moment.


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[Assistant] But there are some people you know that, no? You are not weak. You are making a choice. So somebody says to me, I can't do anything. I can't do anything right now. I'm so tired. I went out at 5am. I came back at 2am. I'm out by 5am again.


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[Assistant] I'm so tired. This is true. I can't do anything. I'm so tired.


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[Assistant] If it is possible, somebody to help me sleep, I'm that tired. If it's possible, somebody to help me cough, somebody to help me use the toilet, I'm that tired. All of a sudden, two gunshots by the window. Boom, boom. Or a snake just crawls in. You sit down there and say, oh, so this is the day I'm going to die.


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[Assistant] So at a level, helplessness is the state of the mind.


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[Assistant] And we have to get into that mind to know if it is cross-default or indulgence. And on many levels, people are indulged. Someone will say, oh, my weakness is sex. You know, anything is sketch. If I see anyone in sketch, I can't help it. That's it, really.


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[Assistant] You left your mom, you left your sister, you left your old woman, you walked to five streets away.


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[Assistant] When you say you are tired, when that snake walked in and said you were tired, no, you were not tired, you were running a script. Because if you were tired, as the snake came in to say, ah, this is my end. The snake has come. I'm tired. Then you should be useless. If you move, there's something inside of you.


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[Assistant] You are kissing a girl. You say, my weakness is I should not just start kissing.


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[Assistant] If there are 255,000 demons at that time, you say, don't stop, continue. You say, sorry, are you guys alright? Did you hear what you said? Continue what? Then you realize how much power is within your control. You were not weak, you were running the script.


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[Assistant] That hide our own choices behind the helplessness society can understand.


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[Assistant] But we run a different script inside that keeps you indulgent and powerless in the moment. You see what I'm saying? So, it's not enough when you say I can't come in society. A lot of times it's just, I was in my office, somebody ran in and said, there's a guy outside, he has held on to, hold on to one wire, he says he's going to kill himself. I said, really? In this hour corner? So I went outside to meet him.


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[Assistant] I said, you wanna kill yourself? Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself. I said, first of all, you don't want to kill yourself. I'm taking too much time.


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[Assistant] What is your real issue? But if you have to kill yourself, this is a private property. You can go outside.


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[Assistant] Go outside, sit down, and then you can kill yourself there. The government is responsible for you. You are not going to kill yourself here. We are not necessarily saying don't kill yourself. We are saying don't drag yourself into their liability.


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[Assistant] If killing is your commitment, this is it. We can give you options. But if this is your commitment, it's outside. That is the diagnosis in that situation. I knew it was running the script. I took a bet on my judgment. And I was right. Right? And I wasn't just doing chances. This is my job. This is what I do. And you know, there's a lot I can say in your eyes. There's a lot that you're sitting down tells me.


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[Assistant] And you could look into people, and let me say this, for a lot of people threatening suicide,


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[Assistant] Once people begin to threaten to suicide, it means that they need attention.


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[Assistant] You know, you can't be depressed, except you have the capacity to replay the past.


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[Assistant] If you cannot replay the past,


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[Assistant] Or choose your role in the past, your weak role in the past, you can never be depressed.


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[Assistant] But there is a mental posture that I have that cannot take me to depression.


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[Assistant] I cannot be depressed. And that is not because of the way I was born. That's because of what I've learned.


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[Assistant] And, and you see, when we know better, we do better. Yeah, true that. What is lacking in people is education.


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[Assistant] People need to understand the world and how it works.


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[Assistant] It's not that you don't want it. You are not scripted for it. Somebody has to unscript you and then reprogram you for success. These your wishes you are talking about is what will kill you. You are jogging fast into depression.


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[Assistant] Because you have no capacity to birth the future you are going into. Yet you have a complete memory to replay your past.


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[Assistant] How you not going to be depressed? When people cannot see what is ahead.


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[Assistant] But by nature, you can always replay your past because you have lived it.


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[Assistant] Even the devil may not know your future, but he knows your past. You can be reminded easily. You can be recalled into your history. Easier than you can be called into your future. So the energy for depression are the core of it.


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[Assistant] It's when you are cruelest, the inability to photograph the next second and the many seconds after it. Once you can photograph the next second,


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[Assistant] In fact, balance is impossible on many levels. Because what is balance? Your balance is not my balance. It's like a scale. One is enough. I believe in harmony. Let me tell you what harmony is. Harmony is we don't have to be, we don't all have to agree. We don't all have to be on the same page.


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[Assistant] It's like an orchestra. Different instruments, one sound. We're not all playing drums. We're not all playing, do you understand? But we can create, we can create a fusion of meaning based on our independent experiences. You see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] And so when people say, you know, you want to balance this, what is that balance? How do you know that it's enough for me? How are you going to recommend that for me?


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[Assistant] You cannot, so I hear what you are trying to say, but if you are not careful, you are by your own self, doing to yourself what your adversary should do to you.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you a question. Why should anybody rationalize the necessity of focus? Why should you try to limit focus?


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[Assistant] Let me, let me say this. What is missing is the real meaning of focus. Focus in itself creates blindness. You can't be focused without blindness to some things.


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[Assistant] If you are really focused. So when people say, oh, you don't want, I say, then you don't want to see anything. Because...


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[Assistant] If you have to be focused, you must be blind to some other things. Focus by design creates blindness. If I look at you now, I'm focused on you. But I can see Synegym, and I can see him.


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[Assistant] I can see the guys here. I can see the camera guys. But I'm focused on you. If I move closer, I lose him totally.


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[Assistant] And when I've caught these guys off, I'm already seeing you. Now, this is the thing. If I want to move closer than I'm already seeing you clearly, then I have another intention. I'm not trying to see you anymore. Maybe somebody wants to kiss you, or he wants to, he wants to do something stupid. That's why you became blood, right? Because the vision has changed. But the idea is, you cannot be out of meaning.


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[Assistant] If you are intentionally recognizing your level of blindness.


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[Assistant] You understand? Being focused in itself and not be aware of the alternative for gone, which is the blindness, is the problem.


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[Assistant] Intentionally doing it. Not people falling off. You are in charge.


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[Assistant] You are deciding what your responsibility is. What is my value to you? People come to me and say, oh, you're my mentor. I say, I'm not aware.


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[Assistant] Because mentoring for me is a working talking relationship. I'm a voice in your life, I'm a teacher in your life, but I'm not your mentor yet.


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[Assistant] We have to be clear, right? If we are going to be friends at a level


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[Assistant] There's a level of mutual understanding we both must agree on.


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[Assistant] Otherwise we're going to have conflicts.


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[Assistant] So this day I was driving to church, actually, and I got to Tamplany Way.


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[Assistant] And then the police officer stopped us. The driver was driving. And then he said, you know, Oga, park. So we parked. And then he said, ah, so I told my driver not to say anything. My rule.


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[Assistant] I can't remember what the way he said, but when he said, which of you talk or whatever, but what he meant is what did you say? I said, good afternoon sir. So I got the go.


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[Assistant] I said, they go. You stopped us. I said, okay, they go now, don't worry.


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[Assistant] I said no, no, I'm so sorry, you know, I'm very such a, you know, this is a bit puzzling.


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[Assistant] You stopped us. I greeted you. I said we should be going. You asked what I said. And I greeted you again. You said we should be going. Why now? Why? So I engaged him. And this is what he told me. And I'm paraphrasing it. He said in his life as a police officer.


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[Assistant] He has never hurt anyone you saw for him before.


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[Assistant] He has been so stuffed of honor and respect that in that moment at the use of that word,


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[Assistant] The resonance it produced was formidable. It didn't matter if I have 200 human heads in the trunk.


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[Assistant] It didn't matter if I have kidnapped someone, it didn't check anything again. It didn't even ask for money, which is rare. Just the way I used that word.


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[Assistant] Because he's used to it. Somebody's in a good car, he looks big, you know, he should show big man. And I spoke to him with so much respect. And he asked me to walk away. He got me really puzzled.


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[Assistant] And then I began to think about our police officers.


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[Assistant] Remember I said that I had a crisis in 2003-2008? I met a guy who's an inspector of police. It's not so general where there's an inspector in his police station.


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[Assistant] Inspector Julius. I will never forget him. I get emotional every time I think. I remember Inspector Julius. It really made a lot of impact in my life.


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[Assistant] He navigated that period because he was the one they brought my case to with so much humanity and respect and


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[Assistant] He did everything on his honor, professionally. It was unbelievable that an officer like that in Nigeria police force. So I started thinking, who is this police officer? Then I thought that, okay, the police officer in the city I live, don't forget I live in Dallas, right? I remember 9-11 when it happened. The building was coming down. More officers died.


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[Assistant] They saw that it was coming down and they were running in. They knew they would die. But you see, that was their turn to show that they are Americans.


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[Assistant] They saw the danger and they were going. They are trained to make sacrifices, if necessary, with their life if they have to. It will be their turn to take a position that great Americans have taken.


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[Assistant] That is the training they have. So the police officer is trained for many things, including the necessity of trading his life, if he has to. I look back at that, though. If a, if a, if a, if a guy in the US Army dies for any reason, he gets $400,000.


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[Assistant] The family is rewarded as a blue star family or gold star family.


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[Assistant] Today, as I was boarding my flight yesterday to Lagos.


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[Assistant] Again, I'm Diamond Medallion on the status with Delta Airline. That's the highest level you can be.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I have your business class ticket. I'm Diamond Medallion.


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[Assistant] The veterans in the military, serving military or past, will be boarded before you. Respect. You are going to see them going to the flight with all your money that you paid. With whatever, it doesn't matter. Veterans are going to go in. They see, they see weight of honor that comes with aligning with that force. So their behavior therefore is understandable.


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[Assistant] The way they conduct their affairs, the sacrifice they are able to make is understandable. I flip that to Nigeria context. And I say that.


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[Assistant] Nigerians forget that policemen actually die for them. Policemen are shot by armed robbers. They are killed. They go out, they don't come back. Almost every day. They get killed, they get shot in different parts of the world. In different parts of Nigeria. Right? It's an unthankful job. They are not insured.


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[Assistant] The literal salary they are paid is not enough. It's not paid regularly.


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[Assistant] Let me expand that a bit more. Do you know, do you know anybody that lived in Ikoi whose children said when I grew up I'll be a police officer in Nigeria?


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[Assistant] So the people who become police officers in Nigeria are people who don't want to be police officers. They became police officers as a job. To live is a livelihood for them. There's nobody in this room.


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[Assistant] That has the reverse thought of becoming a police officer. Right? We won't because we know the reward structure. We know what goes on there.


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[Assistant] So this guy, like 9-11, when the 9-11 guy is in New York, he has a gunshot.


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[Assistant] Boom boom, on the right. They go there, this is why we are here. They are there to die.


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[Assistant] He's here to live, not to die. So he's gonna walk away.


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[Assistant] Many of them are dead. When they are alive, they couldn't solve their economic problems. In death, it was, it's, it's a tragedy. Right? It's not ensured on many levels. It's struggling.


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[Assistant] And then don't forget, the armed robber and the police officer grew up in the same neighborhood. Don't forget.


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[Assistant] They have the same lifestyle, the same economic problems, the same socio-economic problem.


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[Assistant] He had the equal discomfort of the armed robber. He chose to be a police officer.


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[Assistant] Social economic oppression, that force the armed robber to say, I will kill people and I will get money, is the same social economic condition


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[Assistant] That told the police officer, you know what, I'll go to the police force. So his dignity took him there.


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[Assistant] And then it gets to the checkpoint. The sim going in his hand.


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[Assistant] He can die, he can kill you, that's not even gonna happen, you kill him. I always tell people, all poor people die twice. Only rich men die once.


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[Assistant] A poor person dies while he's alive. And then he dies when he brings his last.


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[Assistant] Death is not when you breathe your last. Whether you are alive or you cannot breathe, the moments you have no capacity to fulfill


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[Assistant] The new trend of your own choices. To have the attention, resources your individuality deserves. To control your own human experiences. Deal with human experiences. Even if you breathe, you are dead.


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[Assistant] A dead person in the grave cannot control his reality.


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[Assistant] A man who is poor cannot control his priorities. So how do I say to people? Victim.


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[Assistant] Slavery, slave, victim and dead is the same thing.


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[Assistant] The three of them cannot control their necessarily due human experiences.


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[Assistant] So if you are a slave, you don't control it. Somebody control it for you and tell you what to do, how to do it. Right? If you are a victim, somebody stronger than you has come to overpower you and force an experience on you. If you are a dead person, you have no choice but to live in the condition of the grave.


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[Assistant] So three of them have no control over their necessary human experiences. So if a man is dead,


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[Assistant] That is why if you threaten a dead, a dead, a poor man and say if you, if you, if you traffic cocaine to our country, we will kill you. It's not moved. It's not moved. You are telling him you will kill him second time. He's already dead. The guess what is that Ben? That threat is a guess what? That he will become a millionaire or that he will live a life of this?


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[Assistant] But if you, if I escape, then I become rich. I'll take a chance.


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[Assistant] So, that's why I tell people, consequences cannot condition poverty.


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[Assistant] You can't make laws and more laws to condition poverty. You can use laws to condition a successful enterprise.


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[Assistant] So part of what I used to do when I was living in Nigeria, you know, was I used to put a lot of water in my trunk.


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[Assistant] Right? And put ice, soft drinks, and when I get to the police checkpoint.


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[Assistant] I stopped them, greet them well, you know, when they see a big man, you know, so I said, go to the trunk, there are drinks there, they take drinks, I give them money. Somebody said, but you are, you are indulging them. I said, so what will you say if I give a beggar money?


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[Assistant] You say, can you give a beggar money? You are indulging him. He has a house in the north. Then I now know you have never seen money before.


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[Assistant] It's because you don't know the character of money that you think somebody can be rich.


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[Assistant] And come and submit himself to a begging role in the city centre.


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[Assistant] In the, in the thickness of the metropolis and be begging, nobody with value can do that.


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[Assistant] Nobody with value. Don't you know that for the person to come and be begging in the city center and begging for money is already a proof of his wretchedness? He's a dead man already. That's why he's begging.


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[Assistant] So, the Bible did not say, either lend to a truthful poor, lend to the Lord.


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[Assistant] It's an aid that lends to the poor. Whether it's truthful or not, it's still a poor man. Even if he's lying.


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[Assistant] By the time you decide to do that, you're no longer alive.


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[Assistant] No longer alive, so I will treat you as somebody in the economy of the grave.


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[Assistant] And what that's also doing is that it goes ahead to reprogram the police officer. Exactly. Because the way it begins to see them, I always say to anybody living in a quality neighborhood, engage the police station close to you. Oh yeaah. What is a bag of rice in a year? And that bag of rice in a year can save your neighborhood. Yes.


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[Assistant] Create support systems. Send a bag of water there every week.


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[Assistant] And, and let me just say something about police officers.


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[Assistant] You know, some people then say, but they are mean police officers. Wicked men. I believe and have done my research. Nigerians at the core are beautiful people.


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[Assistant] The criminals we know in Nigeria, first of all you know that there is a prison in every country.


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[Assistant] That means there's a criminal in every country. There are policemen in every country. They are enforcing the law. And they are fighting crime.


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[Assistant] So it's not unique to our environment, right? And there are corrupt police officers everywhere, even in the United States, even in England, there are corrupt police officers. That, therefore, you are doing that stereotyping and that selective reasoning by saying that because armed robbers wear trainers, everybody wearing trainer is an armed robber.


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[Assistant] Because a man abused your sister, therefore every man is an abuser.


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[Assistant] Right? Because some police officers are criminals.


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[Assistant] Does not cancel the humanity in some other police officers. And I beg to say they are more. They are in the majority.


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[Assistant] The bad officers, of course, bad news scale above good news.


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[Assistant] And that's why I like what you said. Let's tell the story of heroism. Yes. Let's tell the story of humanity. Yes. As well as the police officers. Yes. And not just continue to allow bad news to scale. So faster. Policemen represent something. If you take it out of this society, it will be miserable for all of us tomorrow. Very true.


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[Assistant] Let's go there. So this is it. Uhm, a young man came to my house many years ago. His uncle had returned from England and was staying with me.


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[Assistant] You had come to see him to ask for money to buy a new engine.


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[Assistant] Why are you driving taxi? I knew you. You were smart. Why didn't you go to school? Why didn't you become a lawyer or something?


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[Assistant] I didn't go to school, I give up on that. What happened? They say, you're not allowed to study law.


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[Assistant] First of all, I was struggling, I had four credits, I did have five credits, but most importantly was I couldn't pass English language. And I kept failing English, after my dad said, you can't take that extra price on anymore. And so I had to forget about education, and here I am. I said, I don't understand.


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[Assistant] You couldn't pass English language. She said yes. I said, okay, wait, which one did you pass?


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[Assistant] It means when the examiner is marking this voice paper, it's not testing the use of English. It's testing the technicality of English.


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[Assistant] Because if he's testing the use of English, our boy can speak enough English to pass three other subjects.


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[Assistant] With the same English. Right? And it passed in flying colors.


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[Assistant] So why couldn't he pass the English language that he used to pass the other subjects? It means that...


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[Assistant] What the examiner is testing is whether, no matter how much language you can speak, if you can't tell the difference between a clause and a phrase, between a pronoun and an adjective, you're not going to pass.


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[Assistant] The bigger question I ask myself is, so what is the goal of Ligafranca? Is it communication or sophistication?


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[Assistant] Because if it is communication, our boy could communicate enough.


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[Assistant] Please do you understand that? Yes. You know what I mean. Yes. I've passed. I should pass. That is the goal of Ligua Franca. If I say, if you say no,


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[Assistant] You cannot say, I'm going to Lego, then you won't get a job. Then you are persecuting me.


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[Assistant] It means that Ligua Franca is about sophistication, not communication.


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[Assistant] It means that no matter how clearly you can understand me, if I fail the test of technicality of the use of that English, I will still not get the attention and the resources and the acceptance my individuality deserves. Meaning that if I go for an interview and I say I'm come from a good state, I will lose the job. Even if I'm the best thinker in the room.


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[Assistant] I will fail the test of container, even if my content is correct. Even if my quality of thinking is correct, I can't even marry the girl of my dreams. Because if I go to her house on Sunday morning, and the lady say, where are you taking her? I say, we are going to Shosh. Sorry, excuse me. You are going to Shosh?


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[Assistant] They're speaking French. They're speaking English. They're speaking Yoruba. They're speaking Igbo. They're speaking Ausa. They're speaking in every language.


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[Assistant] Paging is the proof of a people's struggle with an original language.


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[Assistant] This is how he talks. Tomorrow we win. Yakimi is called. That's how he talks. But we get him. Do you know that a Garry Seller in Benin speaks better English than a Chinese professor?


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[Assistant] But the Chinese professor has made his own shoes. He has made his own car. He has made his own plane.


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[Assistant] Because we are busy trying to master another person's language. Now, let's be clear. It's not my fault that I cannot speak English. It's not, neither did I choose it.


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[Assistant] If I say Mofema, Lord, I should be relaxed. I'm a relaxed man. Because I cannot speak.


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[Assistant] Yoruba well, which is who I am made to be. If I say I'm go, I'm not an English man. You should understand that I'm not an English man. You can't judge me as a Yoruba man by the standard of an English man.


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[Assistant] I can't marry the girl of my dreams. I cannot company with the people that I want to be with in society just because I fail the standard of another man's language, not my own. I speak Yoruba very well.


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[Assistant] I speak, you know, you speak Igbo very well, you speak Aosta very well, right? But you don't speak English very well. And that is fine. If you say we have a Ligua Franca, let's focus on communication, not sophistication.


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[Assistant] Because we are insisting that the perfection of it will be a standard of progress in our own society.


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[Assistant] And the Englishman has not held the Chinese to that standard.