CEO Culture Capital. 25 yo Cambridge grad, building and buying businesses. Start up schemes and social justice dreams/control capital + change culture.🇳🇬🇬🇧
Went ghost for a minute. Grabbed the First Class from Cambridge University (in every module) and was elected to the Davidson Scholarship at the uni today.
Grateful to God and for the homies who held me down.
I don’t know if guys are clocking on, your energy is only going to decrease, your responsibilities are only going to increase. Build your dreams today.
Journaling and tracking your thoughts and habits is so key. Pattern recognition, self awareness - hacking yourself. You can try to change who you are but it’s better to observe what works for you, own it and discard what doesn’t serve you.
Average age of a UK Rolex owner is 68. Revisit this tweet when you’re PLT Twitter is pressuring you to do up Day-Date and Mercedes steering wheel at 20.
Wanna see everyone win so I’m making a free guide with study tips for GCSE, A level and undergrad. It’ll be ready end of next month so you can sign up for the mailing list to get it:
One thing my mentor taught me is that your losses don’t really matter, people remember your wins.
That’s really helped me reframe risk and failure.
You will never get every deal done. Just make sure you get some and hopefully, the big ones.
If you’re one of those people who say yes because you’re competent and like to help people, at your own inconvenience, stop that. Selfesness is a virtue but if you know you’re just gonna be resentful after agreeing, allow it.
I used to never get that until I understood that failing is an event, not an identity. It’s such a cliché but every win is born out of lots of private Ls.
I used to never get that until I understood that failing is an event, not an identity. It’s such a cliché but every win is born out of lots of private Ls.
This path I’ve chosen is a mad one but if I die tomorrow, it’ll be said that I came out the gate trying to actualise my mission with a great team. Didn’t wait for permission or eXpErIeNcE. There’s nothing that can prepare you to innovate anyway. Grateful.
Tryna get a spare ticket for my brother’s show and each & every person says “sorry I already resold two” or “all three gone”.
Part of me is v pissed and part of me is v v v proud.
Anyway, super proud our foundation donated food to 58 mothers for their households in Lagos today. Enough for a family of 5 for 10 days. Another 92 household distributions tomorrow.
Introducing
#THEBLACKLIST2021
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's celebration of 30 black creatives and professionals who are achieving excellence in the UK and beyond.
A multi-year collaboration with GUAP which sees adidas investing in and providing opportunities for selected members of The Blacklist.
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
- T.E. Lawrence
Even more important to do this when you’re doing well. A mentor said last month to me, “it serves you, until it dont”. What has brought you to this point, might stop you from progressing further. Every time you level up, you gotta do an audit. “What do I have to do to win NOW?”
Sometimes the only way to move forward is to be still for a moment so that you can understand and unlearn behavioural patterns which haven’t been serving you well.
Aim to ruthlessly unlearn what keeps you stuck.
The culmination of years of work from individuals and organisations across the university and successive
@CambridgeACS
committees building on each other’s work. Much more to do but much to be proud of.
We have admitted a record number of black undergraduates this year. The total number of UK-based black students at Cambridge has now more than tripled in three years.
#wideningaccess
@BeCambridge
Since graduating last year, moving out, getting a car, it’s really dawned on me that it’s actually my life now. No one can force my hand. I can say “nah, I’m good”. Are you going to beat me? I’m in control, i make my own choices, it feels good.
Reminder to self: I am eligible for any and everything but entitled to absolutely nothing.
I can have anything I want but I must be more than willing to work for it.
If you find yourself reminiscing too much, you’ve fallen off. You’ve gotten weak. You’ve gotten soft.
“Wow, I was jacked there”
“Damn, that was good times”
“I was really on my grind then”
Back on the wagon bro.
Go to one upscale restaurant all the time
Became good friends with the manager, introduced me to the owner
Get treated like royalty, free drinks + private room all the time
My guests + other diners always confused af as to why this kid gets mad love.
Status. Cheat code.
Literally rewiring your thinking, brainwashing yourself into believing you can do big things, wrestling with self limiting beliefs, doubts and fears - usually a fear of success.
Gotta surround yourself with the rights cats man, bro is 26 yo saying “I know I reply slow bro when I travel for work, it’s coz my cut of the equity at work can be $1M per deal”
Guys are making 1M in equity per deal at their day job in finance, a couple of deals get done a year
Whilst you were yet a sperm, he was busy taking crazy risk and sacrificing his prime years to democratise computing so that everyone could have a personal computer which would lay the foundation for the evolution into the smartphone and app platform you’re using to criticise him.
“The credit belongs to the man in the arena.... who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold & timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Loooooooooooool bro, it’s actually a cold game. Capitalism flipped the script on us. You can be doing library from here to kingdom come, get your degree and find no job and kids are flocking $42m earnings from playing with toys on YouTube.
Ironic, because young people have the longest time horizon but tend to have the least patience.
Maturity teaches older people the wisdom of patience, but only when they have little time left to leverage it.
A patient young person with a long term vision is in prime position.
“The greatest desire of the true Christian is to draw nearer to God. Can you say, honestly, that the greatest thing you desire at this moment is to know God better, and to realize His presence? If you can, you are a Christian."
That dawg in you has to be relentless, can never lose it.
life is love, life is also war.
Forget the first and life loses purpose.
Forget the second and life is incredibly painful.
If you can’t maintain the will to win, to get up again, you’ll get run over, repeatedly.
Procrastination/task overwhelm has to be the worst. You’ll be delaying on one task for 15 weeks, finally send the email in 15 mins. The outcome you feared, even turned out better than expected. Robbed yourself of a better life timeeeee ago and just sitting on all kinds of skress.
Always used to say when I drink that I don’t do it to feel drunk, I’d do it to feel present. It was the quickest way I knew how to stop scheming in my head in social environments & just presently enjoy the moment.
Flow-inducing hobbies like extreme sports are the only way.
1 downside of winning at a high level is you’re always thinking 6, 12, 24 months ahead…being present isn’t that beneficial
This is why alot of people at high levels of any game turn to drugs so they can feel present for a little bit.
Slippery slope.
Hobbies with adrenaline >
Compare yourself to great people and you I’ll always grind. By all accounts, I have a great physique. Elite, if compared to normies. Walking around a solid gym and I’m mid/upper mid tier and that’s just not good enough.
You ever have a moment like “yeah, I did it. I really made it” in a particular facet of life.
A decade of work culminates in a moment, where the fruits of your labour are just objectively undeniable, to yourself, more than anyone else.
Quite enjoying this read, although finding it triggering. It questions the idea of potential, which leads to perpetual future orientation. It argues that “youth” adds unnecessary pressure to achieve and lack of respect for timeless wisdom that often comes with age.
It’s easy to want to squeeze all the wins into one year. God willing, we have 70 years left to ball. Build foundations and play out the plan in phases.
“Do the thing and you shall have the power”
“You’ll never regret working hard but you’ll always regret not knowing”
“LETS GO CHAMP”
“You’re better than this bro”
What’s your mantra?
What do you say to motivate yourself?
Here are a few of mine:
“The Pro goes to Work!”
“You’re worth more than this!”
“You’re running out of time.”
What are yours? 👇🏼
It’s easy to get accustomed to a level and start treating it like it’s normal. You have to reminded yourself it’s not and pat yourself on the back every time you sign a contract.
I absolutely fluctuate between “woe is me, why is it always me that has to handle this stress” and “my life is an absolute movie and I’m the most blessed man around”.
One day, will build a business that’s driven on commission-based sales and hire in the community. Black boys often have the gift of the gaff and sales requires no certification, they just need opportunity. Commit to mastering the skill and the upside is unlimited, no earning cap.
Yesterday’s men’s meeting has me aspiring to a new level of service. It’s not just about stacking p, it’s about setting your people free. Not acting out of your own interest but simply to build up you fellow man, especially those who have been excluded from the system.
“I didn’t go to Harvard, but the people that work for me did”
I never became an Investment Banker but I have the best two running my valuation models. I’m not a lawyer but I have the best one’s advising me.
Everyone on the team is smarter than me.
I just cut the deal.
“If not you, then who else?” Which of course is the truth…If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.” Abraham Maslow
We’re talking about black love being a barrier to success because we don’t blow on our own terms in Britain. It’s contingent on being put on, rather than building our own platform.