damolaolomu

a compendium of thoughts, convictions and musings.

axioms

  • the vast abundance of knowledge and wisdom.

    with every increase in my knowledge bank, there’s a glaring understanding of the vast abundance of knowledge and wisdom. and it’s great because it breeds humility, discomfits complacency and reveals the utter disadvantage of glorying in what i think i do know.

  • something ends and something begins.

    for every death, there’s a birth. for everything that ends something begins, for every season that ends, a new one is activated. it’s set in stone, defined and wound up into the ethos of the cosmos. it’s a law – the law of seasons.

  • reiteration.

    there’s immense power in reiteration. it’s a definitive crux if you desire to get better at anything. do it, review, improve, apply and repeat. that’s how you go from good to great.

  • lawful not expedient.

    all things are lawful for me but not all things are expedient – that’s deliverance in itself. that i can doesn’t mean i should. the critical faculty dimension of wisdom is a prerequisite for exercising liberties, you have to be shrewd enough to say no to good things. refusing to indulge in temptations is cool…

  • indefatigability.

    everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face or hit in the gut, this is true. life will give you that punch time and time again. how will you respond?

  • three peas in a pod.

    wisdom, knowledge and understanding are three peas in a pod and I strongly believe that the greatest of these three is understanding. 

  • on competence.

    the science of competence cannot be bought or hacked. it’s one of those badges that are earned. with discipline, consistency, grit, fervor, repetition, sharpening your rod, building excellence and perfecting your craft. that’s why competence and confidence go together, hand in glove.

  • be it.

    a lot of bold takes wouldn’t have to be bold takes if you just lived what you’re trying to preach. you won’t have to drum it into people’s heads time and again if you embodied it. who you are speaks louder than your words and folks with perception can hear you before you actually speak.…

  • no such thing as a fair fight.

    there is no such thing as a fair fight, but your character will determine how you fight, because there’s always a right way to win. character here is a sum total of your values, moral guardrails, belief systems and mental modules. it’ll determine how you respond, react and act. if you think rules make a…

  • being well rounded.

    you’re going to need a lot of teachers if your goal is to be well rounded, there’s no monopoly of insight anywhere, and there’s no isolated aggregated knowledge, you’d never totally agree with everyone’s individual perspectives so instead of pitting thought leaders against each other, embrace the responsibility of editing your understanding and you’d have…

  • watch and learn.

    keen observation would do you a lot of good. i learn from the mistakes i see others make and say can never be me sparingly, you might need a quick life lesson to really establish it though. everyone who’s made a mistake you think you can never make was one move off course. like a…

  • be willing to walk alone.

    to birth new things, or pioneer things bigger than you, you’d need to be stubborn, thick skinned, comfortable with the audience of one. dead to the idea of impressing others, you must be willing to walk alone, be alone if occasions serves it, because a lot of times you alone will see the vision for…

  • thoughts, concepts, precepts.

    a thought is like a cell, like a layer of an onion bulb. when aligned with a will, that’s a concept, the foundation of a precept. what i’m saying is you birth realities with your thoughts. align with the good ones, aikido the bad ones.

  • will is never in inertia.

    will is never in inertia. do not be deceived, free will is an illusion of the mind. there’s always an influence, but the paradox is you can choose your influence, so choose or don’t. your will is still being influenced by a choice.

  • generalizations.

    extreme generalizations are dangerous. sometimes the exception, the outlier is the very pointer you need to identify the need for a new perspective and ultimately the establishment of a new pattern.

  • define your it.

    as much as i don’t think life’s navigation is purely logical, as there are other critical lenses to look from. i know that you’re most likely going to keep looking if you don’t expressly know what you’re looking for. a lot of things look like ‘it’ when you don’t have a definition of ‘it’. when…

  • seeds.

    everything starts as seed and anything can be a seed. every visible fruit was once a seed that died after being cast into the ground. every forest, every building, the next best invention or innovation will start as a seed. Ideas, Concepts. Insights – seeds.

  • embrace hard things.

    doing hard things makes you an interesting character in the long run, because in charting those courses not frequently toured, you end up with stories worth listening to.

  • black, white and grey.

    there’s black, white and grey, and grey isn’t isolated from either of them, it’s a mixture of both. white is light, black is darkness and grey is the unhealthy mix, a densely populated category. this isn’t about race or skin color. it’s more about the actors on this world stage. no opinions or perspectives are…

  • experiences, perspectives and perception

    our experiences shape our perspectives and convictions so it’s easy to not see the blindspots that come with our perception.