Growing up I took education for granted. I would
say school is a place where parents dump their children to grow up amongst
others. It was never important to me. Having an old man stand in front of me
all day teaching me three quarters of things I never experienced outside school
gates. It was a waste of my time, I thought. I had no idea that it was designed
for me to have intellectual potency, to stretch my brain for creativity, to
make me efficient and increase my reasoning. Content is substantial material
with value, or metamorphic substance. This is what schooling does. It builds
substance in you. You may have missed an opportunity to go to school but that
is not the end of you. Ask yourself this question, where will I be in the next
three years? Have a picture of where you
want to be. Realize your wildest dreams by gathering necessary information
towards the fulfillment of those dreams.
This world is a playground of thinkers.
Therefore you ought to engage your mind in activities that enhance your mind to
think and stretch. You can do quiz games, play chess and even solve puzzles.
This will make you efficient but you need to go further by reading, listening
and watching stuff that builds you. The information you expose or endorse
yourself to will shape your character. Remember it’s not just any type of
information that ministers a prosperous mentality. You can only display or
portray what you have in you. You cannot give what you don’t have. There is one
thing very important, that requires a payment not in monetary value, which is
attention. When you purchase attention, you will get quality information to
make something of yourself. Knowledge is information you can use to your
advantage for advancement in life.
A man of content is bold and confident
in his approach towards anything in line with his expertise. There is relevant
and irrelevant content. Okay for example, a grade seven student who is reading
and studying O’ level material – this is an advanced level of education but it
will not lead him anywhere rather it will shatter his reasoning abilities
because his mind cannot fathom unless otherwise. It is important that you
understand everything you read or take in. It makes no sense to gain
information you can’t use to improve the quality of your life. You know what
you want, you know where you are going – it’s not magic to be a force to reckon
with in the society, it’s being purposeful and focused. When you know that you
carry explosive information in you – you are mindful of your contact and
dealings. I always say you have nothing to say until you say it. Therefore make
sure you are saturated with the right information to make you an asset in life.
If you have a negative background the only way you can change it is absorbing
positive information. Positivity results in productivity.
What you carry in you pushes you to act
accordingly, whether conscious or unconscious. The subconscious mind has
recording ability – and transforming ability. A man who has content has
judgment based on knowledge, based on what he knows. When you lack content you can hardly strike a
conversation of importance or influence. Work on being and not on having – with
who you are you will have. When you have substance you seize to wait on rising
opportunities, you mechanize environments that promote opportunities for
yourself. Be relevant in your generation, learn things fast – move with the
times. Stay abreast of the facts. Human beings evolve and mature by feeding on
information and learning new things. Be a man who is willing to improve daily.
Don’t discriminate the source of knowledge – like when a poor man is speaking
and you reject his wisdom because of his outward state. It is important to be
able to discern between useful and useless info. Remember the sign post to
Mutare has never been or reached there but it leads you there. Some people are
simply sign post to lead you to your destiny, so do not lay judgment on men
based on the outward appearance. So if you know your role is to build leaders
of the coming generations, suffocate yourself with the right knowledge for
that. Learn to build content that
materializes to greatness. There is a knowledge that has no effect even when
applied in life. Have progressive substance to move you from point A to B. A
car travels on petrol – so does a human being. We are travelers on a journey of
success fueled by knowledge. Information is the bridge to reformation.
When Batman shows up, the solution shows
up with him. This fictitious cartoon character carries substantial material for
solving criminal issues. When you have content you are noticed. Influence is
attained by knowing your value and releasing yourself. What you know increases
your value in any sector or industry. When you know how to do what to do you
become important in your industry. This world is now fast and people hardly
have time to train someone to be the exact person they need to hire – but when
you have material, you are considered to be a workable vessel.
My
generation is populated with lazy folks – talk more and achieve less. When you
have people living without a plan and direction as to where they are going. When
you have folks on street corners, sagging baggy jeans – choking smoke settling
above their heads. Talking of that one business that never made it beyond the
street they live in. Watching the ones choked with ties trafficking into the
street but still sag their jeans and brains. The thought to arise is there but
the level of arising is to be better than Gift who bought a bicycle – so yes I
will buy a mountain bike. I am talking of those guys who were always by the
barber shop planning on things that could never be executed by a sober mind. These
are the guys who never got arrested for anything illegal but lived in prison.
The guys who went to the local schools and never saw or experienced 30minutes
out of the neighborhood. These are men who married in the community but known
for sagging baggy jeans. The question is how did they marry? Saggy brains. Yes
those men who light their cigarettes with the other men’s burning cigarette.
These are the old folks who pass a pot of traditional beer to each other. This
is the man who is always drunk and beaten by his wife – news the whole street
knows about. The sagging baggy jeans are worn when the sofas are set up outside
on mudhara Black’s funeral. They are the guys who never sleep drumming and
singing on the funeral. The baggy jeans that never realize that the way of
saggy, baggy jeans and brains ends with sofas on the outside and a guy wearing
baggy jeans sagging his brains beating the drums.