Words matter – pay attention to what you tell others. As a kid in the village, some friends used to tease, “your eyes are big”. One day, I made it home and asked my mother, “why do they say that”. She replied, “you need big eyes to see mathematics better”. The next day that came, I had a good answer, “with my big eyes, I see mathematics better”; I actually did as that was the only reason I liked school. One went home and wept that he needed bigger eyes too! (My eyes seem normal though but rabbit bush hunting, feeding smoke into the burrows, did many things to the eyes!.)
But here is the message: how you react to words from men and women is more important than what they say. My initiation in America was a Walmart clerk telling me insultingly that I had an accent. My response: “That is fine but yours is an accented version of the real English invented in England”. Her mouth opened because I just told her that even her English was not the original.
Do not allow words from distractors to define your destiny. The most unfortunate thing in the world is associating prestige, influence and relevance to how people earn a living, thereby making it possible for people to define the worlds of others. But you could be undefined!
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Yes, be undefined by others because you have DEFINED yourself. It is a fact as in mathematics because problems are largely solved after the variables have been clearly mapped and defined!
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I am still searching for the person that invented the famous acronym: VIP (very important person), in case you find him/her, let me know; he/she has some questions to answer, for carrying out such a giant scam in our world.
The elites, best practices, global standard, first world country, third world country, developed nations, developing nations, etc, etc, all these things were crafted and approved by who exactly? This world is filled with too many garbage.