08/06/2026
It is instructive that most teachers and leaders who weave the world didn't write anything; no book, no journal, no manuscript; just their thoughts and values weaved in the hearts of their followers. Think of Jesus, Confucius, Socrates and plato -- It is more instructive to know that it were their followers who published and preached their doctrines across generations.
This two-minutes read is all you need to build a dynasty. Read it now even if you can't.
Leaders of antiquity and of the future lead with not just what they said but with what they did and how they lived.
Their disciples wrote about them causing them to profoundly shape various generations.
The truth is the modern man is so much interested in the noise of recognition. But we must do the right thing first before seeking recognition.
Before we can do the right thing, however, we must become the right person.
That is, we must become a certain kind of person: someone whose appetites, passions, thoughts and deeds are all harmonized by a fundamental attitude of goodness to all living things.
Virtue over vices. Depths of breadth -- we must build the edifice of the future with today's bricks.
This writer is sitting at Watbridge hotel, Uyo, writing this thoughts, waiting to see a client for some good money contract. The contract is coming from a relationship that has been nurtured through a decade of disappointment and long suffering.
A young man who wants to be wealthy in his fifties must work for it (read: build it) in his twenties and thirties. With patience and humility, he must endure the pain of working for free to win good relationships. He must kill his appetite for immediate gratification to solidify his context and announce his noble virtue.
Virtue, itself, involves good skills as well as a good will: the man of virtue cultivates benevolent disposition which must be expressed in deeds of perfect propriety.
It starts from mastering inner passions and thoughts as well as the command of outer rituals. Then cultivating the dividends with patience and intelligence.
š”Once we are masters of our own thoughts and desires and grows loyal to them, and align them with the rhythm of the universe, then we have earned a noble place in posterity.
This type of stuff should be read more than once.
Wisdom is a weapon.
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~ Zion Bassey