The Internal Monologue

It Will Take Whatever It Wants. The price is always different, mainly because of our virtues, cultures, DNA, religions, and simple basic behaviours. For example, what it cost me to get a BIng didn't cost some of my mates/peers. Those who were in a class with me knew there was a guy who used to come to class with a blue cooler box full of goodies. He was the best 1st year Engineering student, and I think he later got the degree with Cum Laude. Me! I had a lot of non-school-related issues to manage, e.g., cooking, making new friends, and other village-to-city adaptations. But in the end, we all got BIng degrees after paying incurring different costs. To get where you want to go, it will cost you whatever it wants. You have to pay the price that is on your quote/bill. We are all dealt different hands by nature. It is just that it tends to take more than you initially imagined, and even more the older we get. There's just too much stuff to lose as we become risk-averse. Changing co...

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...

Lesson from the Stock market It is easy to look at situations in retrospect, and it usually lures us into thinking that the pieces were meant to come together like a puzzle, but it is the exact opposite. Like Steve Jobs said, " Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. " The dark horses are similar to under-valued stocks. Let's look at Capitec (JSE: CPI in 2000 compared to 2021) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN in 1997 compared to 2021); many stocks fit this comparison. One lesson I got from their exponential rise is that the majority and its analysts are always wrong. Paul Rulkens said in his Ted Talk something like " to be a high performer and achieve extraordinary results, you have to think...