Thread by @zeal_a

People will generally protect the things that have value to them and it implies that anything that is not being protected, isn’t valued (doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value, just that it’s value isn’t appreciated/known/recognized)

Let me explain in a THREAD

1. A man heard malaria kills and told his architect “please design a house to protect me, I don’t want to die” and so, the architect designed a house that was burglar proof and fire proof.

He spent a lot of protection, but is was ineffective against the threat he worried about

2. Protection is specific on the threat & this determines the manner, timing & tools deployed in protecting

Do you know your most valuable asset?

Are you protecting your most valuable asset?

Do you know how to protect it?

Do you know what to protect it from?

Do you value it?

3. Guard your mind with ALL diligence for out of it comes the issues of life

OR

Make all effort, spare nothing to protect your mind &make sure that your mind isn’t unduly influenced by things that will affect it negatively cos your mind creates everything you experience in life

4. So natural questions: Guard your mind from what? How? What influences your mind?

Your mind is influenced by things like:
1. Environment
2. People
3. Past Circumstances
4. Media: what you read, what you hear, what you watch

because all these affect what and how you think

5. Your environment affects your behavior, your capabilities, your belief system and these affect your destiny.

Your environment is controlled by your government which is created by politics.

Some belief is shaped by religion which pastors, Imams, priests control.

6. Your education systems interact with all these and education is controlled by govt policy which picks teachers and what/how your learn and remember “nemo dat quod non habet” & “Garbage in, garbage out”

It’s non-exhaustive but I’ll share some of what I’ve learnt.

7. So how do you protect yourselves from the misleadings of these people who, from early in life, have significant control over what you think, how you think and therefore shape/program your mind?

As with everything else you protect yourself from:

8. You first identify the potential adversary then take time, effort, energy, intellect to study the modus operandi of the adversary and then create counter measures. To study them, you must immerse yourself in their activity without being influenced by them.

9. It isn’t easy but it’s possible and that’s why we must remember that though “you are in the adverse environment, you are not of it and though it is all around you, you should stand out and make sure you don’t conform to its wiles and methods of mind manipulation”

10. Anything & anyone that offers you an idea, a thought process, a belief or an opinion, whether religious or political, test it. Ask questions and make sure the person understand what they’re saying and if they try to make you believe without questions, they’re manipulating you

11. Ignorance is one major access point that exposes you to absolutely any and every mind manipulator and people, nations, generation will die out and be destroyed because they are ignorant and have rejected knowledge and say “don’t intellectualize God”!!

12. Guard your mind by diligently understanding its power, feeding it appropriately, controlling/filtering access to it, challenging everything that you come across with a view to understanding how/why it is important & classifying ideas/opinions as “necessary or unnecessary”