The Human Mind 5
Welcome to Leading Right – a presentation of Life Africa. My name is Abiodun Fijabi.
Let me stretch your imagination again this morning. Imagine your mind like a huge river trying to find a channel to flow through.
It is easy for me to picture this. I grew up in the South West city of Ibadan with its record-breaking flooding. Having lived in the down-town area of the city with no or poor channelization, the rainy season was characterised by fear and panic. I have stood by and watched homes destroyed, lives cut off in their prime and valuables washed off like they were defective goods. The emotional trauma the living victims experienced was even worse. Some were so devastated that they never rose up again. They just stopped living.
Switch your mind away from the destructive flood for a moment and consider another huge body of water falling from a high elevation into an array of heavy duty turbans. The turbans rotating at a high speed and causing much turbulence creates a tremendous power. It is called hydro-electric power. That power produces more than half of Nigeria’s electricity.
Here is another huge river. But unlike the former, the water turbulence is contained and its power channelled. The productive use of the huge body of water brings benefits to a huge population.
It is a paradox. Your mind can be used destructively or productively. Your mind can herald that liberty you have been longing for. It can also constrain you in chains and reduce you to an underling. Which ever way you see it, your mind is a tremendous power waiting to be tapped. It is estimated that you think between 400 to 800 words a minute. Compared to just about 250 words you speak a minute. That is awesome. This awesome power is at an attention waiting to be ordered by you. If you order it aright, it obeys your order and you receive the benefits of your wise decision. If you choose an unwise command, your mind does not ague with you; it just bows to your command.
Now, should you choose not to issue any command, your mind, like nature, abhors a vacuum. It just wonders around the path of least resistance. It flows like a huge unchannelled Ibadan river, creating its own channels and causing destruction in the process.
Never stop to use you mind. If you do, your mind will keep working anyway, only along the path of hopelessness and destruction. The huge power of your mind is available to you, waiting to be deployed at your command. Issue the right command and reap the benefits of greatness. Misuse it and consign yourself to mediocrity. Like in many issues of life, the choice is yours.
Let me stretch your imagination again this morning. Imagine your mind like a huge river trying to find a channel to flow through.
It is easy for me to picture this. I grew up in the South West city of Ibadan with its record-breaking flooding. Having lived in the down-town area of the city with no or poor channelization, the rainy season was characterised by fear and panic. I have stood by and watched homes destroyed, lives cut off in their prime and valuables washed off like they were defective goods. The emotional trauma the living victims experienced was even worse. Some were so devastated that they never rose up again. They just stopped living.
Switch your mind away from the destructive flood for a moment and consider another huge body of water falling from a high elevation into an array of heavy duty turbans. The turbans rotating at a high speed and causing much turbulence creates a tremendous power. It is called hydro-electric power. That power produces more than half of Nigeria’s electricity.
Here is another huge river. But unlike the former, the water turbulence is contained and its power channelled. The productive use of the huge body of water brings benefits to a huge population.
It is a paradox. Your mind can be used destructively or productively. Your mind can herald that liberty you have been longing for. It can also constrain you in chains and reduce you to an underling. Which ever way you see it, your mind is a tremendous power waiting to be tapped. It is estimated that you think between 400 to 800 words a minute. Compared to just about 250 words you speak a minute. That is awesome. This awesome power is at an attention waiting to be ordered by you. If you order it aright, it obeys your order and you receive the benefits of your wise decision. If you choose an unwise command, your mind does not ague with you; it just bows to your command.
Now, should you choose not to issue any command, your mind, like nature, abhors a vacuum. It just wonders around the path of least resistance. It flows like a huge unchannelled Ibadan river, creating its own channels and causing destruction in the process.
Never stop to use you mind. If you do, your mind will keep working anyway, only along the path of hopelessness and destruction. The huge power of your mind is available to you, waiting to be deployed at your command. Issue the right command and reap the benefits of greatness. Misuse it and consign yourself to mediocrity. Like in many issues of life, the choice is yours.
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