Emmanuel Adedapo @eaadedapo

Real Estate meruitinvest.com Lagos, Nigeria Joined July 2010

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9 hours ago

Poverty steals so much from you. Don't be poor for too long!

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𝕏treme Motivation @XtremeMotivated

9 hours ago

HEALTH comes from LONG term HABITS... WEALTH comes from LONG term INVESTMENTS... The MICROWAVE MINDSET gets you soggy results... Always embrace LONG TERM THINKING... It creates LEGACY level IMPACT!

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Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee

5 hours ago

If you and your loved ones are healthy, every day is good.

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Elon Musk @elonmusk

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Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ

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Dear Son. @DearS_o_n

2 weeks ago

Choosing A Good Mother For Your Kids Is More Important Than Choosing A Beautiful Wife For Yourself.

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Reads with Ravi @readswithravi

a month ago

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

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Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid

a month ago

.@elonmusk: 🔸Millionaire at 28 🔸Billionaire at 41 🔸Trillionaire at 54 Prediction: He will become a quadrillionaire at 67, and quintillionaire at 80.

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Congratulations to SpaceX on today’s $75B IPO, the largest ever brought to market. Goldman Sachs is honored to have served as lead left bookrunner on this transaction, but more than that, we are proud of the strong partnership our people have built with the SpaceX team over the

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Dear Son. @DearS_o_n

a month ago

Never mock a man when he is at his lowest.

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Reads with Ravi @readswithravi

2 months ago

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

2 months ago

Remember the kids who crashed their dad's live TV interview during COVID? This is them today. Time flies, huh?

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Reads with Ravi @readswithravi

2 months ago

“The young man knows the rules, the old man knows the exceptions.” — Charlie Munger

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Money Quotes @MoneyQuotesX

2 months ago

Do yourself a favor, get rich.

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Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell

2 months ago

“The better I serve my fellow man…the greater my claim on the goods my fellow man produces. That’s the morality of the market.” — Walter E. Williams

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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka

3 months ago

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

George Mack @george__mack

3 months ago

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

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Dear Son. @DearS_o_n

3 months ago

Be a man. • Leave that toxic relationship • Leave your hometown • Ignore small talk • Live on your own • Build a business • Journal every night • Invest your money • Believe in God Take charge of your destiny.

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Robert Greene @RobertGreene

3 months ago

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

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JM Alvarez-Pallete @jmalvpal

3 months ago

"We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself". Professor Richard Feynman vía @ValaAfshar