What is beauty
without intelligence, container without content, body without mind and hardware
without software? The mind is the root of success and failure depending on what
it is daily fed. The mind here can be likened to “content” while the body is
the “container”.
According to
Napoleon Hill; a renowned psychologist, the mind is a gigantic power within us,
which possesses unlimited capacity, potential and power. Psychologists
have proven that every human is born Tabula
rasa (blank). We are born empty but become the product of our environment
and what we constantly feed our minds.
Just like the
computer, the mind can only reproduce what it is fed. Unfortunately, a lot of
us have not only starved our minds with little data but the little data we have
fed our minds with are negative and derailing. Do not be deceived, just as the
quality of a seed determine the quality of the fruit, so is the input (what we
feed our minds with) a determinant of the output (our success or failure in
life). It is a direct case of garbage in garbage out.
A student or worker,
who spends majority of his/her time on any of the social networks for instance:
2go, Facebook and WhatsApp to mention a few, will obviously produce poor grades
or poor service as the case may be. The present low academic performance in
both secondary and tertiary institutions can be partly attributed to the number
of hours youths now spend on these social networks. There is a cause and effect
relationship between the things we daily feed our minds with and success or
failure we daily record.
Tell me what you
spend most of your time doing and I will tell you what you will become.
Many people
spend the larger part of their time packaging their “outside” and neglecting
their “inside”, beautifying their “container” and disregarding their “content”,
feeding their body and inadvertently starving their mind. The container
(physical appearance) is not in itself bad but spending too much money and time
on it as opposed to the content (mind) is wrong. This is because the mind
deserves more attention than the body. The “battles” of life are fought and won
in the mind.
Mohammed Ali, a
great boxer, attested to the supremacy of the mind power over the physical
power when he said, “champions are not made in the gym but champions are made
in something they have deep inside them.”
In conclusion,
to be the best in our chosen fields, we must spend the larger part of our time and
money in feeding our minds with ideas and information that are needed in our
chosen fields. One could be derailing if he spends more time on “Chelsea/Arsenal”
club matches than on his field of study. Identify your “selling point” (area of
strength) and consciously nurture it to greatness. The vision you glorify in
your mind, the ideal you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life
on and this you will become.
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