GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO SUCCEED
Two extreme creatures; one big and the other small. Their main goal in life is how they will feed themselves. You remember Abraham Maslow’s pyramid that food is a fundamental physiological need of living organisms.
The big organism is one of the powerful predators in the animal kingdom. So, it will wait until it is hungry before hunting for prey.
However, the small organism thought of a different approach having realized its limitations. It created web of strings that captures prey when they approach it.
In case you want to know which organisms we are evaluating here, the big organism is Tiger. The small organism is spider.
ENDURING SUCCESS REQUIRES STRATEGY
Geoffrey Ward, author of The Tiger-Wallahs, once asked his guide ‘why were tigers so aggressive while feeding them?’ His guide replied, “Tigers do not like to share.” Because of this attitude, so much energy is spent by Tigers locating and killing prey.
Wild Tigers make a kill about once a week. See how the week is spent: Two days hunting, spent roughly two or three days to feed on a kill, rest for two days. Hunger sets in again, another cycle begins.
The story is different for the Spider, it would go to the web it had created in different locations to retrieve the prey, eats, relax and there is enough to share. The energy was invested building the web once and continually maintaining it.
I got a call, “Why are you information generous Mr. Aliyu? You wrote a book “The Pathways of Highly Successful Global Teachers” and began to share its content for free”. My response was as follow:
STRATEGIES DO NOT HAVE EQUAL VALUE
Dwight David Eisenhower, one of the world’s greatest army general and former president of United States said, “The history of free men and women is never written by chance but by choice.”
i got to share to be free!
I shared the story of the big and small organisms. I asked, please take few minutes to review your own life. If the Tiger and the Spider were human beings, and they put their strategies before you to make a choice, what decision would you make?
In 2019 in Switzerland, I found an interesting information about the World Wide Web during my training at European Council for Nuclear Research. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, in 1989 invented the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN. According to Tim, the web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated INFORMATION-SHARING between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee, for giving yourself and unborn generation the permission to succeed. What would the world look like today without the web?
I could make an assumption that Tim Berners-Lee might have spent so much time gathering data about the spider model before inventing the World Wide Web. What do you think?
Dear friend,
As long as you do not give your power away and share that which you were born to fulfill, you will not be giving yourself enough permission to succeed.
My job is to mentor. This is my own way of giving my power away. You do not lose anything deciding to take what I know, leverage on it and broaden your perspectives on your pathway to success. It is up to you to make a decision for your copy at the author’s website www.selfactualizationacademy.net
You will succeed!
Jamiu T. Aliyu
Founder, Self-Actualization Mentoring Academy
