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    The Abandoned Discussions
    The Abandoned Discussions
    The Abandoned Discussions
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    The Abandoned Discussions

    By EMEKA UMUNNAKWE

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    This book is not the typical success handbook seen and sold every day. It is a book that aims at making you successful by challenging your way of doing things. It is a book that wants you to succeed when and where your contemporaries have failed.

    You may find some of the discussions attacking on the things you believe in. It is normal. You see it so because those discussions have long been abandoned and the attempt at discussing them is meeting a natural brick wall as is seen with humans. Actually, human beings are among the laziest animals on earth.

    This book is meant for the young ones. It is meant for those guiding and molding the young ones into a glorious future. It is meant for the teachers. And by teachers, I mean those who teach the young ones at home and in the various places of learning.

    This book will inform you. It will educate you. But most of all, it will go against your beliefs and challenge you into action. But you will only benefit from the contents of the book if you read it with an open mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEMEKA UMUNNAKWE
    Release dateOct 13, 2016
    ISBN9781536553130
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      The Abandoned Discussions - EMEKA UMUNNAKWE

      Dedication

      To all the people on earth

      Who strive everyday to make sure that poverty is removed from amongst humanity.

      Acknowledgements

      There is hardly an easy way of saying thank you when many people contributed into bringing something into reality. Several materials have been cited in this work from the social media and the authors were nowhere to be reached. To such authors, I say a very big thank you.

      My good friend, Onyebuchi Henry Nwankwo, made me to write this book. I recognise your efforts, my friend and brother. The love of my life, Udibhade Eunice O.E was like a mother forcing her beloved son to do the right thing. She forced me to complete this work.

      To all those who contributed in one way or the other to make this work a reality, I say thank you.

      You all know yourselves. I sincerely appreciate your efforts.

      Preface

      This book is not the typical success handbook seen and sold every day. It is a book that aims at making you successful by challenging your way of doing things. It is a book that wants you to succeed when and where your contemporaries have failed.

      You may find some of the discussions attacking on the things you believe in. It is normal. You see it so because those discussions have long been abandoned and the attempt at discussing them is meeting a natural brick wall as is seen with humans. Actually, human beings are among the laziest animals on earth.

      This book is meant for the young ones. It is meant for those guiding and molding the young ones into a glorious future. It is meant for the teachers. And by teachers, I mean those who teach the young ones at home and in the various places of learning.

      This book will inform you. It will educate you. But most of all, it will go against your beliefs and challenge you into action. But you will only benefit from the contents of the book if you read it with an open mind.

      ––––––––

      -Chukwuemeka T. Umunnakwe

      Introduction

      Human beings are very complex. In fact, human beings are the most complex beings on earth.

      Our complexity is not caused just by our brain arrangements. It is also caused by our upbringing. The way we were brought up and the societies we grew (or still grow) up in all add to our value systems, and these go a long way in determining how successful or not we will become in life, and at the end of the day we become more and more complex than the way we were born.

      Some human societies extol hard work while some others don’t. Some human societies value reward for labour while some others feel that all humans should be rewarded equally whether they laboured or not. Some human societies believe that people who work too much and acquire wealth are too materialistic while some others believe that those who do not work should not eat. Some human societies see people who are rich as evil while some other human societies encourage their members to be rich and enjoy life.

      All these different, oftentimes conflicting human value systems make humans have different outlooks to life, different success levels, different rewards, different complexities, and different success stories.

      This work will try to examine a lot of common beliefs, occurrences, day-to-day lives of individuals especially the young ones and, the work may challenge what you believe in. It may also enhance what you are thinking in your mind. It may also contradict what you strongly think is the perfect thing. But, at the end of the day, with an open mind, you will get to agree with the write-up.

      Different aspects of an upcoming individual’s life, which have hitherto been abandoned, or simply relegated to the background as unimportant have been examined in this write-up. The write-ups here also relate to the parents of the youngster, who will have to guide the young one to a successful future. There is also a seeming attack on the way we are taught from day one to the end of our lives. Of course, the mind is like a bag, and everybody carries his own bag with him.

      This work, I must say calls for a paradigm shift in our thinking styles. It asks for an open mind to appreciate the ideas presented. It is only with such an open mind that progress can be made. It is only with this open mind that we can move together and become increasingly, positively complex.

      The different aspects that this work has gone into include, but not limited to:

      Higher institution and the life of the young person in a higher institution

      The concept of examinations and the effects of our education system

      The power in your self

      Career and different career paths

      Entrepreneurship.

      All in all, the work is a great book for the young and those guiding the young ones to adulthood. It is a little scratch on the surface of the things plaguing our society, which the society is yet to treat, while the society runs up and down, prescribing drugs and solutions for non-existent diseases and problems.

      This work does not end with the discussions contained here. The discussions will still go on, in our minds, in our inner rooms, in our religious places, in our hidden chambers. The discussions should continue, if we truly want to have a better and a more prosperous society.

      Chapter One

      Higher Institution

      The Igbo people in South East Nigeria call the University and other higher institutions ‘mahadum’. The word originated from a set of words ma(ra) hadum (meaning literally: know them all). In other words, from the Igbo’s point of view, a higher institution is where you are to know it (them) all.

      A higher institution is a place for the acquisition of knowledge. It is a place where the little knowledge you got from your secondary school (high school) is expanded and refined. In the higher institution, you are made to know it all – in your chosen field of study.

      The higher institution affords you the opportunity to drop some false assumptions, and at the same time, it creates rooms for you to make, refine and expand your own assumptions. Theories are formulated, modified and even discarded through the activities in the higher institution.

      It is a citadel of the brain and for the brain. It is a powerhouse for those who want to make use of their brains. It is a place for the excellence of the mind. It is a confluence for minds: good minds and bad minds alike.

      The higher institution is a meeting point for different kinds of persons – the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. It is a world of its own. It is a world where the rich and the poor struggle to acquire the same thing – knowledge – maybe through different means. And in this world, as in other worlds, the rich oftentimes do have their ways, while the poor do have their say. The children of the rich are oftentimes not hidden in the higher institutions, and the children of the poor oftentimes are hidden by the nature of their wallet sizes.

      Several good people are seen in the higher institution, and some very bad people are also seen here. Some very great and mighty things happen in the higher institution, while some horrible things equally take place here. Several beneficial fellowships are found in the higher institution, and several occult and cultic gatherings hold sway. Wherever you decide to belong is where you will be found, and whatever that group offers is what you must get.

      Types of Institutions of Higher Learning

      These include, among others:

      Universities: these award degrees

      Polytechnics: these award diplomas (Ordinary National Diploma and Higher National Diploma) in several fields

      Monotechnics: a monotechnic is an institution that provides instructions in a single technical subject. Examples in Nigeria include Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Federal School of Surveying, Air Force Institute of Technology etc.

      Colleges of Education: these award National Certificate in Education

      Etc

      Life in the Higher Institution

      You Are On Your Own

      You are on your own. It is as simple as that.

      A typical student of a higher institution is usually away from his or her parents. The student is like a sheep without a physical shepherd. The only shepherd available to this student is the upbringing given to him by his parents, together with the pieces of advice he receives

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