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Many people believe that graduating from the university makes them superior to others who dropped out or did not become students there at all. Although the Government makes it appear so for job allocation, it is not true! Believing it may keep you in mediocrity for life.       When I hear statements such as “a whole graduate with B.sc. Driving Dangote,” I understand why many graduates are unemployed and eventually take to crimes. These folks believe that becoming graduates make them more educated than others and they do not want to stoop low to do certain jobs that they think only the “uneducated” should do.   Many of these folks who cannot even practice what they studied in school have an entitlement mentality that keeps them out of jobs for a long time and renders them useless to themselves and society. It is not always that there are no jobs, it is usually that there are jobs that they feel too big to do because they are graduates.   If you think ...

  If you cannot disobey your parents when it is necessary to do so, you are most likely never to live above mediocrity –the unwillingness to disobey your parents when it matters most is often the same as choosing to be mediocre except in a very few cases.   One of the best keys through which many parents lock their children’s brains and prevent them from truly living by making them obey them all the time even though what they are saying may be outdated, wrong, or even bad is the misinterpretation of a quote from the Bible, which goes thus: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise.” (Ephesians 6: 1)   My father recently came up with that quote when he exhausted all his persuasive skills to make me do certain a thing that I did not want to do. I disobeyed him without any apologies. This is not because I did not honor or respect him. I understand that respecting my pare...