I've been trying to tweet about how I think young struggling men should approach hustle.

I've struggled to articulate my thoughts properly until the last tweet I made about Asake.

Immediately it struck me. I know what I'll call it.

I'll call it the Asake's Template To Hustle. Asake is that one guy you know that, his life has only two possible outcomes.

1. He either makes it OR
2. He dies trying.

This is how I'm built.

I've always told you:

You need to have insane belief in yourself and have to ability to back it up with insane work.

Even when I was in the pit of pits, there's a reason I documented my growth.

Because e sure die say I go make am.

I'd tell my friends then, "my chances of making it are higher than my chances of finding love".

Guy, have insane belief in yourself and back it with insane work. Acknowledge where you are, in the journey of life but don't talk yourself down.

What a person won't condone as a wealthy man, he doesn't tolerate as a poor man.

You can keep your gaze fixed on the man you want to become, without overestimating your current worth.

Move clearly.

I think it is just due that I spin a 🧵for ambitious/career/beautiful women currently making their bread.

Take this from a brother.

There's a strain of men who deploy a particularly psychological tool, you should discern against.

They won't like this tweet but I'll explain. See that thing where obviously beautiful women are debased by their aesthetically deficient spouses as "unattractive" OR

where academically established women are condescendingly referred to "not the most intelligent". It isn't random.

It is a psychological calibration tool.

I know I've written about this before, so this is a low hanging fruit.

I'll make this thread precise & share on good men and evil.

The world's definition of a good man is flawed, it is who we'd refer to as a "nice guy" in this thread.

Now, this is my thinking:

https://twitter.com/Feranmi_Babs/status/1950869360714580269

The world has twisted you to think that a good man is one who is overtly obedient, very agreeable, softspoken, unable to inflict harm.

But that's not a good man. That's a "nice guy", that's a weak man.

A good man isn't harmless.

A good man is dangerous but disciplined.

I bookmarked this to respond later but I think I have my thoughts together now.

Religion, definitely man made, was primarily responsible in enforcing some morality scope on the world.

Simply put:
As bad as the world is - without religion, it could have been worse.

Hear me out.

https://twitter.com/MeyenOla/status/1948955584289484923

Religion is one of the paradoxical social tools that has entrenched into the fibres of our humanity.

As much as it is designed to enforce good, it's been responsible for a lot of bad.

As much as it liberates, it imprisons.

It unites communities, while demonizing others.

100% of a man's problems stems from his inability to sit alone, in silence, in his room.

For the modern man, silence is unbearable.

He open 18 tabs, scroll feed 3 socials at the same time, check 7 apps - just to avoid a single quiet moment with himself.

Let me talk to you. 🧵 You've used distractions as an escape but silence is your ultimate healing balm.

Ashamed to confront what you see in the mirror, you'd rather use the makeup of entertainment apps to stir temporary joy.

To escape your mortality, insecurities, regrets.

Let silence heal you.

On GMOs.

Firstly, permit me to throw data to the wind. Only time.

90% of people arguing about GMOs, reading this thread - have never handled genetic materials, edited genes. Probably never will.

I eat CRISPR-CAS9 for lunch.

I write this thread, as a subject authority. Let's start by talking about why European countries have GMOs banned.

France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Greece, Luxembourg, Hungary - all have GMOs banned.

According to the EU - advantages are there but are weak compared to the risk.

In plain words: "it's not worth it".

True story - one that introduced me to one of the nuances of corporate politics!

Post-NYSC, I interned with this edutech & was in a science team of 3 interns, all first class grads.

We all studied "unrelated" first° disciplines & like with all internships, it was probationary. My close friend on the team counted his teeth with his tongue, accepted another offer & moved to Mobil.

I did my work, exceptionally well - displayed talent & corporate range but guess what:

At the end of the internship, HR informed me that they'd not be extending my contract.

When you hear people say "Nigeria doesn't work" - shut them up.

Nigeria works.

If you design a system to fail, if it fails - it actually works.

From education, to infrastructure, to health, to commerce - everything works.

The question is - who is it working for? Corporations put an employment ceiling of 23 years for entry jobs.

The education system is designed to get you into, keep you in school for 8 yrs & spill you out at 27. After NYSC, you're beyond the cut off.

It is easily to disqualify you to put their children.

Nigeria works.

When I started my 20's decade, I knew that I needed money lessons if I wanted to feature in a particular life in my 30's.

I've also learnt that you play the game different when you eclipse into another decade.

As I venture into my 30's decade, this is my possible play.

🧵 I need to decide what my number is.

What number in $$$ do I need to be in liquidity or investments to consider myself financially secured.

Decide that number and work backwards.

That number is my FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) number.

I have some time so let me teach a concept I taught in my 6 years of teaching college biology.

Mosquitoes fit perfectly into the food chain and the absence of mosquitoes means many plants and animals will cease to exist.

I'll tell you how & why:

https://twitter.com/Morris_Monye/status/1938465366587429176

Alongside bees and butterflies,mosquitoes are one of the most influential pollinators because their males feed on nectar

They transfer pollen grains from flower to flower, enabling reproduction

Putting mosquitoes at risk, means plants would be at risk - by extension, herbivores

I don't think you people understand it. Tinubu ruined Lagos.

Ask anyone who lived in Lagos in 90's and early 2000's.

Slums exist everywhere but the weaponisation of slums is the lifeline of Tinubu's wealth.

When he came back from exile, that was his priority. He doesn't have any business anywhere. No history of commerce.

Brought back his drug proceeds and glazed into governance, like they all do.

When he became Governor, he claimed to have attracted a "foreign investment" and a new influx of yellow buses flooded Lagos.

What was supposed to be the start of a beautiful birthday trip for me started heartbreakingly.

When I got my Japan visa, I asked the visa officer if stops at Hong Kong would need a transit visa, he assured me "No"

On Hong Kong's immigration page, 170 countries -

https://twitter.com/UnkleAyo/status/1918145224699785699

170 countries can transit visa-free, as long as transit time is under 24hours and they don't go through border control again - Nigeria isn't one of those countries.

For context - Djibouti, Mali, Guinea, Chad, Gabon, Niger, Algeria are part of these countries that qualify.

God made bumbum, looked back, winked at the angels - Gabriel snapped his fingers thrice and screamed "sky daddy, sope purrr"

Such a premium body feature - my God! 🥹

There's bumbum, nyash and buttocks. I'm talking about bumbum.

The jiggly ones consumed in cellulites. Swallowed by layers of waist beads, a mobile weaponry that doubles as a pharmacy whose owner knows how to wear it in class.

Whether in pallazo or in shinmi, the effect is the same.

She walks past you, and it flows in harmonial ripples.

Skuskisku. 🙂‍↔️

Such Magnificience!

The 7 wonders of the world, I know.
To only 1 wonder, I consistently grow.

Would it my end? That I may not know.

What I know, it was David's end.

For he wandered across his balcony & beheld derrerie of Uriah's woman.

For what I know, it was the end of the angels.
O bumbum. When you deployed the first mass production from the eve prototype to earth, Nephilims couldn't resist.

The angels beheld & lamented:

"Shall men chopeth all these alone?"

Would it be my end? That I may not know.

And from what I know, it was the end of those angels.

O bumbum.

I appreciate your writing but I have zero regard for public praise.

I'm in no way a good person. It is also why I detest being called a mentor. I am heavily flawed.

The knowledge of this keeps me grounded.

My writing constantly points towards my bias and hypocrisy.

https://twitter.com/ItzAniejayz/status/1861977109377216599

I'm aware of my bias. I'm aware of times where my bias can lean into my hypocritical side.

I'm aware and I act accordingly. I think this is one of my biggest strength.

For example:

I like Wizkid. I like him alot.

Growing up, I wanted to be like him - only that I grew tall.

As someone who practices intermittent fasting by spacing all his meals by 12 hours, have spent a better part of the last 4 years in cancer research, currently runs two PhDs in cancer biology & loathes half information.

This is tweet is relatively correct and these are the facts. Two different phenomena that's constantly transposed.

Intermittent fasting isn't the same as caloric restriction.

The mechanistic effect of IF which is primarily metabolic is channelled towards weight loss. It is about when you eat.

CR is about how much you eat.

This is an uncomfortable truth but I'll say this for all my brothers out there:

"there will be light at the end of the tunnel" in the actual sense is a delusional simulation.

There's nothing that guarantees at the end of your journey through the tunnel, you'll find light. What if your travel ends right in the tunnel?

What if, right in the tunnel, was where your travel was meant to end?

These are two different questions. What do you do? What your fashion how you currently lived your life differently?

I'll share my perspective.

It hasn't happened before.

Every month, we'll share 1ETH (~ $4,000) amongst learners who show up daily with #ThisWeekILearnt #TWIL

I've taken time to put together resources to get you started onchain, in web3/blockchain.

It took me 4 hours to make this thread.
Make use of it.
Before I list out 40 top paying careers in this space, this is all I ask of you:

🫵Be ready to grind through ALL the resources. They're free.
🫵Commit 4 hours daily. Our goal is 6 months
🫵Uninstall Tiktok & Instagram
🫵Block all your talking stages so you can focus.

Fxck love!

6 months in solitude and you can literally set the tone for the life you want.

I'll thread an update of tech routes & resources you can self-pace in the next 6 months and know enough to land an internship.

You don't need previous coding experience.

Just commit 30 hours weekly. The only ask I make of you:

🤌Be ready to grind on YT and Udemy
🤌Commit 3 hours daily.
🤌Detox from social media unless you're learning a new update with the route you've chosen
🤌Block your talking stages and pause love for 6 months.

Unsure what path to choose?
Fine hack:

I turn 30 today. 🎈

As someone who was severely underprivileged, has been independent since 15, is currently proud of his journey - I think it is fair to share for all young men, regardless of age.

Here are 30 no-BS life hacks I've amassed in the last decade that has helped me: 1/30
Let's start with the classic on my cover photo.

There is NOTHING you aspire to, that is beyond your reach.

How badly do you want it and the sacrifices you’re willing to make, for it?

The magic you’re looking for, is in the work you’re avoiding!