Ignorance and poverty can be generational and transferable. Despite that
we live in an age of information explosion with libraries, teaching videos,
television and radio bombarding us on every side with opportunities to stretch
our horizons and increase our knowledge, many still fall victims of ignorance
due to lack of information and application of knowledge. Down to what some are
doing on a daily basis they are too lazy to seek for facts that will take them
to greatness in their endeavour through reading, forgetting that what they do
today will have impact on the generation that will come through them.
You can’t give what you don’t have. Lack of awareness or quality
information about our profession is not only an epidemic to oneself but to
society at large.
Be an agent of change; we must make this world a better place than we
met it. That can only be done by constantly equipping ourselves through reading.
Between 2013 and 2014 alone I have read over thirty books and that didn’t stop
me from doing my work and other domestic activities. Through this, I was
transformed remarkably beyond my own expectation with loads of information
which I will confidently pass on to my children, which will help them form
their own decisions. Also, I attended seminars on stocks, real estate, forex
trading and entrepreneurship. I did all these purposely because I wanted to
change the situation around me, but I needed to change myself first and I did that
by seeking information through books and people. Furthermore, I am still eager
for more books to read, seminars to attend and people to meet so that I can
discover more.
It makes no sense if we can’t improve ourselves in all aspects of
life: education, business and attitude, more than our parents did so that our
children will be better off. Ignorance will mess up the next generation because
God rejects both those who reject knowledge and their children. The decisions
parents make on behalf of their children will continue to aid or mar their
existence; therefore, parents of nowadays must not fail their children in
providing the right information. Otherwise, they will be fed wrongly by dubious
persons who peddle deceptive information.
Recommended Book
Maximizing Your Potential
by Dr. Myles Munroe.
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