So you know about A-Z of campus leadership right? If you don't, sorry to say, you are living under a rock. I'm a member of the whatsapp hub and today is ASK day, we ask questions on leadership and get answers.
Today, someone asked a pretty interesting question that i have been asking myself for sometime now and with the permission of Mr Femi Tiamiyu, I'm sharing his answer to the question just so you know how much you are missing out.
QUESTION:
WHY WILL STUDENTS RATHER PREFER TO SPEND 20,000 FOR A TABLE DURING A COMEDY SHOW AND WILL TELL YOU 1,500 FOR A CONFERENCE IS TOO MUCH?
(I'm sure most of us have done this, smh)
ANSWER:
Hmmm... Deep! My thought exactly. One word Answer: PRIORITY!
MEMBER: Thanks sir. But are we saying that the youths on our campuses have misplaced priorities? And if that's the case, what can we do to salvage the situation... Because its seems to be a general trend...
ANSWER:
No, not all have misplaced their priorities. Two, not everyone understand the price tag placed on their existence actually.
I think it starts from understanding the origin of the word ENTERTAINMENT or what it means to ENTERTAIN something or somebody and how we can link that to the operations of the brain.
When we are being ENTERTAINED, it's tantamount to our brain or reasoning faculty being suspended. See this...
Entertain comes from the juxtaposition of French 'entre' which comes from Latin 'Inter' both words meaning 'together, or among', and Latin 'tenere', which means 'to hold'.
So, literally, 'entertain' means to 'hold or support together'. Therefore, when you are entertaining a crowd, you are holding together their attention and amusement, naturally a crowd gathers together at a place if it possesses a certain awe of a thing in common
The word comes from Latin words Inter and tenere.
inter (among) + tenere (to hold). The word originally meant ‘maintain, continue,’
Later, the meaning changed to ‘maintain in a certain condition, treat in a certain way,’
Now how does this lead yo the operations of the brain and the response of people to those other kind of entertainment function compared to impactful ones. Please, note that I AM IN NO WAY SAYING THAT ENTERTAINMENT IS A BAD ENDEAVOUR OR EXPERIENCE OR THAT ANYONE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IS IN FOR TRASH. No!!!
But really its pathetic how an artist would record trash in a CD for me and I'd buy it only to fill my mind with his trash and junks. I really don't understand. Your beat and lyrics must appeal to every being of my fabric. I mean EVERY BEING. Back to the gist...
The brain has two compartments each responsible for our PLEASURE and PAIN experiences.
That's why as a student the moment you carry your books to read and you start sleeping...something dangerous is happening to you😜🙈...cos one of the components or exhibitions of the pleasure compartment is that it induces sleep.
You need teach no one how to sleep. We all just love to sleep!
Same way we also just love to watch movies, comedies shows comparing to reading intellectual stuff.
So it's an embrace to a life of mediocrity when all you do is just to massage the pleasure compartment of your brain. Let's be real...it's burdensome to READ, SIT UNDER A LECTURE FOR 3-5HRS STRETCH, THINK A PROBLEM THROUGH AND BIRTH A CONCRETE SOLUTION, PRAY BEYOND AN HOUR OR EVEN 30MINS....though one become discipline enough these activities become pleasurable.
But on the contrary, engaging in a gist for more than hour is no big deal, stocking your laptop or DVD with seasonal movies (especially after a semester or sessional exam...you know that feel right? *winks) is not a problem either. How about WORRYING instead if thinking or praying for a solution ....
And many more...
So these are the places where the ALIGNMENT OF PRIORITIES must begin.
AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT
While on campus, I wished and planned to make many shows but my meetings, appointments, preparations and deliveries wouldn't allow me. Sincerely, I thought life was unfair to just me...cos I'd sometimes be in meetings not far from where students like me are yelling, laughing and clapping and here I am I can exit those functions I am in. Some I attended (which I can count), I would not be able to finish or wouldn't use more than an hour
But it didn't take long before I realised that there is a higher course. There is a SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT. an adage says that SOMEONE WHOM THEY WILL WATCH DOESN'T WATCH MUCH (I don't know if I get it well though. Its in Yoruba Adage). But Max Lucado puts it well here (which I state in A-Z of Campus Leadership under L~Leadership). He says, A MAN WHO WANTS TO LEAD THE ORCHESTRA MUST TURN HIS BACK ON THE CROWD.
There's more where this came from, and if you couldn't read through this post you just proved the point.
P. S A-Z of campus leadership is still on sale
P. P. S you can join the whatsapp hub by clicking on this link
P. P. S share your thought on this in the comment box
Today, someone asked a pretty interesting question that i have been asking myself for sometime now and with the permission of Mr Femi Tiamiyu, I'm sharing his answer to the question just so you know how much you are missing out.
QUESTION:
WHY WILL STUDENTS RATHER PREFER TO SPEND 20,000 FOR A TABLE DURING A COMEDY SHOW AND WILL TELL YOU 1,500 FOR A CONFERENCE IS TOO MUCH?
(I'm sure most of us have done this, smh)
ANSWER:
Hmmm... Deep! My thought exactly. One word Answer: PRIORITY!
MEMBER: Thanks sir. But are we saying that the youths on our campuses have misplaced priorities? And if that's the case, what can we do to salvage the situation... Because its seems to be a general trend...
ANSWER:
No, not all have misplaced their priorities. Two, not everyone understand the price tag placed on their existence actually.
I think it starts from understanding the origin of the word ENTERTAINMENT or what it means to ENTERTAIN something or somebody and how we can link that to the operations of the brain.
When we are being ENTERTAINED, it's tantamount to our brain or reasoning faculty being suspended. See this...
Entertain comes from the juxtaposition of French 'entre' which comes from Latin 'Inter' both words meaning 'together, or among', and Latin 'tenere', which means 'to hold'.
So, literally, 'entertain' means to 'hold or support together'. Therefore, when you are entertaining a crowd, you are holding together their attention and amusement, naturally a crowd gathers together at a place if it possesses a certain awe of a thing in common
The word comes from Latin words Inter and tenere.
inter (among) + tenere (to hold). The word originally meant ‘maintain, continue,’
Later, the meaning changed to ‘maintain in a certain condition, treat in a certain way,’
Now how does this lead yo the operations of the brain and the response of people to those other kind of entertainment function compared to impactful ones. Please, note that I AM IN NO WAY SAYING THAT ENTERTAINMENT IS A BAD ENDEAVOUR OR EXPERIENCE OR THAT ANYONE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IS IN FOR TRASH. No!!!
But really its pathetic how an artist would record trash in a CD for me and I'd buy it only to fill my mind with his trash and junks. I really don't understand. Your beat and lyrics must appeal to every being of my fabric. I mean EVERY BEING. Back to the gist...
The brain has two compartments each responsible for our PLEASURE and PAIN experiences.
That's why as a student the moment you carry your books to read and you start sleeping...something dangerous is happening to you😜🙈...cos one of the components or exhibitions of the pleasure compartment is that it induces sleep.
You need teach no one how to sleep. We all just love to sleep!
Same way we also just love to watch movies, comedies shows comparing to reading intellectual stuff.
So it's an embrace to a life of mediocrity when all you do is just to massage the pleasure compartment of your brain. Let's be real...it's burdensome to READ, SIT UNDER A LECTURE FOR 3-5HRS STRETCH, THINK A PROBLEM THROUGH AND BIRTH A CONCRETE SOLUTION, PRAY BEYOND AN HOUR OR EVEN 30MINS....though one become discipline enough these activities become pleasurable.
But on the contrary, engaging in a gist for more than hour is no big deal, stocking your laptop or DVD with seasonal movies (especially after a semester or sessional exam...you know that feel right? *winks) is not a problem either. How about WORRYING instead if thinking or praying for a solution ....
And many more...
So these are the places where the ALIGNMENT OF PRIORITIES must begin.
AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT
While on campus, I wished and planned to make many shows but my meetings, appointments, preparations and deliveries wouldn't allow me. Sincerely, I thought life was unfair to just me...cos I'd sometimes be in meetings not far from where students like me are yelling, laughing and clapping and here I am I can exit those functions I am in. Some I attended (which I can count), I would not be able to finish or wouldn't use more than an hour
But it didn't take long before I realised that there is a higher course. There is a SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT. an adage says that SOMEONE WHOM THEY WILL WATCH DOESN'T WATCH MUCH (I don't know if I get it well though. Its in Yoruba Adage). But Max Lucado puts it well here (which I state in A-Z of Campus Leadership under L~Leadership). He says, A MAN WHO WANTS TO LEAD THE ORCHESTRA MUST TURN HIS BACK ON THE CROWD.
There's more where this came from, and if you couldn't read through this post you just proved the point.
P. S A-Z of campus leadership is still on sale
P. P. S you can join the whatsapp hub by clicking on this link
P. P. S share your thought on this in the comment box
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