Mind Restructuring: Excellence And Creativity Mindset -By Richard Odusanya

Excellence is a talent or quality which is usually good and surpasses ordinary standard. Excellence is being good at a good thing. It means that you strive to be the best you can be and to do the best you can. Excellence reflects moral virtue and therefore strive towards what is positive, valuable and praiseworthy. A person of excellence is a POSITIVE influencer; a person of excellent disposition lifts others because he knows that he rises when he lifts others; a person of excellence is not insecure.

Similarly, creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness…. creativity is all about finding new ways of solving problems. This is certainly the way to go, the developing world must be able to key into a mindset of critical thinking. Particularly, in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. Again, it is all about a change of mindset, “Mind Restructuring”

These subject, brings me to two different live experience of two separate personalities. Tai Solarin and David Alleyne: David is presently the ‘CEO’ of Guided Ultrasonic Ltd, a UK integrity company and also a long standing friend and associate. David, a co-founder of the company in 1998, holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London. He was initially a technician who services and solves the problems of the college with precision. He was noticed by our mutual friend Kunle Oloyede, a Prof of medical engineering, who then was a lecturer at the imperial college.

Prof Oloyede having identified the potentials for excellence and creativity, thereafter, encouraged David to enroll for his degree in an area that he was already an expert. Today, David is a globally certified inventor and the CEO of Guided Ultrasonic Ltd. Guided wave testing has become a well-established method for inspecting pipeline. A new and modern way of screening technique. Excellence And Creativity.

On the other hand, TAI SOLARIN was a hard critic of IBB and a perpetual lover of the poor. One day, after series of criticisms, IBB invited Tai for a discussion, he asked him what he could do to better the lives of the poor. Tai was happy, he quickly proposed a soft loan for all the poor Nigerians to enable them start small scale businesses and as they return the loans, other poor people will continue to benefit until it reaches all. IBB clapped for Tai and pleaded with him to champion the noble cause so that the programme can run without a hitch. Tai agreed.

Immediately, a Peoples Bank was formed by Decree and huge fund was pumped into it with Dr. Tai as the Chairman. Poor people were getting funds to start or expand their businesses, it was coordinated by Tai, IBB never gave him any bottleneck, no distractions. But after giving out loans to the poor, the poor refused to return the money, neither did we see their businesses on ground, they have spent the money but no repayment. Wahala de!!!!

Tai was sweating under the Air conditioning system, “this is trouble”. After many futile attempts to recover the loans, the Celebrated Peoples Bank crashed and became liquidated. Tai was running helter-skelter. He finally went to IBB but IBB was not angry, he merely said “Egbon, see what we are facing in government? It is easy to talk, talk is cheap sir but look at your bank.

This is just one small bank that you cannot manage o, imagine how many banks we have, imagine ruling a whole country sir? If people now blamed you for the collapse of the bank you proposed and ran, how will you feel? Don’t worry sir, you will not be prosecuted. Just go home and rest. You have had enough troubles already……thanks for your service to the nation…..” This is the results of mindsets towards consumption acquirement and materialism.

As we continue to explore the cognitive development of Mind Restructuring with the hope of a set goal for the change of heart from our past to a beautiful mind like our wakanda hero and queen. It is a new day, Africa will rise again.

ARISE ‘O COMPATRIOTS

Richard Odusanya is a Social Reform Crusader and the convener of AFRICA COVENANT RESCUE INITIATIVE ACRI