1. The humbling thing about leaving ZImbabwe, is that you move from having Elders who have invented nothing and are not globally relevant but want you to lick their entire bodies to talking to the pioneers of your field who insist that you call them with their first names😩
2. Imagine, talking the person who literally made the most important findings in your field and they want nothing from you apart from giving you all the skills and attention to make you great! You are not seen as competition but as a branch on a big tree, to bear more fruit.
3. I once spoke to this other big person, they have more than 300 published papers, and they thought that I was a great fit for one of the projects they were doing. Never did they try to remind me how big they were, it was as if I was the big person 🤣...the issue was about me!
4. I hope one day our big men and women calm down and see that their legacy is in how many they help to crossover as opposed to how many they victimize and embarass. The young ones don't exist to stroke the egos of the old, their are our branches, producing fruit for the next one
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