The Internal Monologue

Life as a Storyline Good storytelling can change your life and avail opportunities, in most cases, even if you don't truly know what you may be talking about or it's a made-up story. Storytelling is part of human nature; almost every tribe has stories and legends about the stars, wars, mythology, etc. I previously wrote about my take on life ( Life Outlook ) as a perspective and what we make of it. Remember, survival is not about how connected you are to reality but about fitness. Storytelling is a great fitness mechanism. Life is like a movie with cameras that are always rolling; the only difference is they roll 24/7, and there are hardly multiple takes and cuts. Certain mistakes/bloopers can't be edited out. Meaning that the character continues living with the consequences of an altered storyline. Life is a storyline that you learn and move on when things happen. Imagine watching a soapie that keeps on playing the same storyline over and over again; this is depression. He...

The 6th Sense and Models The software that runs in our heads is crucial for our day-to-day functions. One should ask who wrote the program running in my head and making me behave the way I do. Some writers are Media companies, friends and family, classmates, work colleagues, etc. It's crucial to truly identify how the people we interact with write the code that runs in our heads. Self-examination and awareness have never been more critical, given the amount of information brought forth by this digital age. With the merger of the physical and the digital, writing, compiling, and running codes in people's heads will be so much easier, given that we provide more feedback to programmers through smartwatches, smartphones, and other digital things. Unfortunately, with code, some malicious actors will hack you. Do you have clean code in your head, or it's all spaghetti and fuzzy? Interacting with people is the primary form of data transfer. Humans are complicated beings with the a...

 Sacrificial Lamb ( Take one for the team) " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. " - said Nelson Mandela. Another quote from many prominent individuals says, " Before you change the world, you must change yourself. " This is a very uncomfortable process. Change is always hard but a constant of life. Change brings about growth. If you are like me, living in a developing (previously called 3rd-world) country, education is the only tool you can use take off the poverty jacket. Someone in the family must start or, in my own words, become a "sacrificial lamb" for everyone in the family to be set free of this default of nature. This someone is usually called a breadwinner. One person must move from the low class to the middle class and be a living example and an enabler for other family members. This one person must be the family role model. Let's not call the act of empowering family members "Black tax". We...