GET CONNECTED
So there was this video I stumbled on online with which I came
to the realization that ‘sleepwalking’ in the 21st Century puts us at the risk
of being surrounded by various things to learn from and grow with, but being
too distracted to learn anything.
In the said video were two boys, one should be around 14
years old and the other should be around half that age. The little one would
keep disturbing the older one whenever he was playing games; always trying to
press a button on his game pad. So the older one thought about it and did something
funny.
The next time he was playing game, he kept an extra pad
beside him for his younger brother . As soon as the younger brother showed up
to disturb him, he simply handed him his own gamepad and continued his game.
The younger brother, very satisfied with the gesture, took his seat and
concentrated on his own game too. He was fiddling with the game pad, pressing
various buttons, obviously too young to realize that a fast one had been pulled
on him.
The gamepad in his hands wasn’t CONNECTED! (Chai!)
As funny as that video was, I saw in it, the exact way a lot
of people lived – MISCONNECTED, UNCONNECTED or DISCONNECTED. Unconsciously MISCONNECTED
to the things we consciously tag as things of little or no real value; and in
the process, DISCONNECTED from the things that truly matter.
Have you ever taken a minute to realize that almost every
tech item or gadget only functions to its fullest capacity, when its CONNECTED
to another thing? Number one thing devices depend on, is electricity. Even if
your device sports the best battery, not connecting it to a power source over
time would soon make the battery go DEAD. Some items (like the remote) can’t
work without batteries, no matter how much you press it and beat it, it just
wouldn’t work.
Our mobile phones… Haha!... these ones. You must have noticed
how incomplete your device feels when you’re DISCONNECTED from your network
provider’s internet service because you’re out of subscription. Or when your
device is on 11% battery and just when you decide to CONNECT the charger, PHCN
happens? (Lol!) Or even when you need to make an urgent call, only to see
“searching for network” on your screen instead of the network bars.
Just so we know, we need to consciously CONNECT to the things
we consider important, because if we don’t, we would be MISCONNECTED with time
consuming trivialities. We need to consciously and intelligently set our
priorities and make the right CONNECTIONS in order to experience an upsurge in
every area of our lives, where we desire it.
For instance, do you want to be the next big comedian? Why
not find a way to connect with top comedians in the business. The next rap
star? Why not find a way to connect with A-list rappers.
Whichever career path or life phase we know we could really
use some progressive and fantastic CONNECTION, trust me, we would always find
people ahead of us that we could CONNECT with; giving us the chance to leverage
on their knowledge, their experience, even their name, and so on, to help carve
out a path for us.
A good example is AY the comedian. He hustled his way till he
CONNECTED with Alibaba and successfully leveraged on the Alibaba brand, taking
him as a mentor, after he came to Lagos from Warri. We all are witnesses to how
that turned out for him.
While you spend valuable time on social media, just keeping
up with the news and trends, your prospects might just be loitering around,
waiting for you to use the same social media platform to talk about what you
do, upload images of your works and add your business contact details and they
begin to CONNECT with you.
Again, this is the 21st century where various connections have not only made the world a smaller global digital village, but also made successful people from the least expected sources. The question is: What CONNECTIONS are you making, and what/Who are you CONNECTING with?
Mature Minds Talk
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