Closed letter to young South African visionaries who give a shit or 2...

This article might be long but know it’s never my intention. I just start writing always hoping to write something simple and short so I can get back to gaming and then (((BOOOOOOM))), I’ve written 3000-5000 words. I’m sorry people it’s never my fault ok!!! Anyway, to start off I figured I’d share a 9 min video that highlights the 9 problems South Africa is and has been facing: 

 It’s funny because this video only has like 30000 views and you’d expect more on it but then again I realize that young people today would rather be entertained than to be educated in South Africa and I guess that’s why I made this a closed letter because I realize that not many people will read it but that doesn’t mean it should stop me from writing this post because I feel it was necessary. This was supposed to be a chapter in my book which I’m aiming to get published this year but figured that there’s no harm in putting it out there before. Just a bit of a cool trailer you know!! Hahaha!  Anyway I’m supposed to be serious here I know, so let me be serious.

So South Africa....... Shit.  Where do I even begin? 

Ok so the video I hoped you watched should’ve shed a light on what’s going on in our country and what problems we are facing. I can only hope that it has hit a part of you because the video was released 2 years ago by the NPC and it’s rather crucial as it is it interesting. If the first link didn’t work here it is again because it’s imperative that we be on the same page going forward, it’s only 9 min hey. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXhPtMoaGa0

So let’s talk about what happened in South Africa. We had apartheid for however many years it was, non white South Africans were treated like shit, and then one day it ended, we had elections in 1994 and with that a new republic and country was formed and we’re like 20 years from that time. In 20 years the question is what has happened? Are people happy or do people feel like more could’ve been done? We have a situation where inequality, unemployment, disease and crime is running rife in our country and as much as we know all about it, it seems that we’re happy just as long as it’s not happening to us. Our schools are few and full, and the only way to cut the supply of job seekers is to hike up prices of fees and they keep them in school longer by introducing what is called academic inflation which means that a person might now need a masters degree to get a job a normal degree would’ve been enough long time ago which is simple demand and supply ideas. Your Wits’s and UCT’s are more favoured in the eyes of employers and if you went to those schools and got an engineering, accounting, economics, medicine or finance degree you’re basically set for life. The question I ask or care about is what about the rest of the people?? We have laws now that force people to hire more black people in companies with sometimes little regard for skills. We have greedy BEE laws that give privileges to black people in business with sometimes no regard for the viability and feasibility of the business only have them sometimes fail and that means white South Africans sometimes have no access to funding and it puzzles me I mean REALLY?? Corruption is the thing today and we just see it happening around us and tweet our anger but carry on with our lives and ya that’s what we as South Africans are today, that’s the best we’ve been able to do. I think this is all bullshit and being who I am, I’m going to tell you why and then leave you with my thoughts.  

I’ve always been one to educate myself because I was always curious about ALL things around me; I mean I always found everything and everyone around me to be so fascinating. I’ve loved science and since I can remember all that but the most fascinating thing I’ve come across has always been history. Just to understand how the world became how it became today blows my mind whenever I see it all around me.  Once a person understands the power of history, that person undergoes an inner transformation like no other because history is something that cuts and breaks away dogma and exposes it for what it is and so I’m going to give a little history lesson here. Not everyone will like the truth but fuck it, the truth is the truth. Black and white people need to understand what happened in history to see that all this hatred towards one another is silly, stupid and more importantly hinders our much needed human evolution seeing that it has been hindered for over 400 years now...    I'll only do a lil summary but if you want to read further into History, get this book even though the 1600 pages seem intimidating, it's pretty mind-blowing:

Human beings existed and life began in Africa as a civilization whenever it was even though I doubt we are the first human species to have ever existed because common sense says to me that there was one continent and they broke away bit by bit and because we’re not bumping into Australia tomorrow, says to me that this Earth thing has been here for a fucken long time but that’s an issue for another day. Life began in Africa many thousands of years ago and the people began to do the human thing and was enlightened somehow and did all the things that they did. For instance the first university was in Morocco and was called a “university” because it was literally the study of the [universe]. They created math, science, astrology, the arts, music and built castles in Ethiopia, the pyramids and some other ancient buildings the media just doesn’t show. They eventually multiplied over time and began to explore and share their knowledge with everyone and so the world began. Now different climatic conditions meant that biologically, humans had to adapt to different environments over thousands of years and this was the beginning of this shit concept called “race”. We had African people on the move from Central Africa, through Egypt to the desert areas where Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamian and Persian civilisations happened. These are the areas that are found around the Euphrates and Jordan River systems close to Israel today. History and Archaeology seems to then say that there was an Ice age in the northern Persian or Eurasia area which we know as Europe today and it was below freezing for a couple of thousand years. I’m talking Antarctica all day, errrday for a couple of millennia here all with their Y2K bug thingy’s (hahaha remember that Y2K bullshit story??). The place looked like this they say basically:

 

Brrrrrrrrr!!

Now over those years if you understand the human body you know that it has to be warm but not hot or cold. In Africa, Africans developed melanin, wide noses (for more air intake to cool the brain) and the hair that they did (the hair was crossed in and clung together to let as little light rays to the scalp as possible) to combat the extreme heat conditions of Africa. Now to the people, who moved up to the world and were now caught in the ice age, were forced to adapt. It’s interesting to note that a lot of people were born and died not ever knowing what summer was ever! Poor souls hey... But ya the most important area on the body is the brain, so Darwin’s natural selection theory says that the body had to now survive by adaptation to protect the brain all for purposes of survival. The human nose had to be thinner to take less cold air in so as to keep the brain warm and what did the hair do?? It had to grow longer to keep the neck warm where all the signals that go to and from the body to the brain had to pass through. They became hairy all over their bodies, lost the melanin and became pale in skin because of the lack of sunlight they had. Their eyes became lighter because they had to take less UV rays in and because most of what was around them was ice and water, and their eyes naturally took the lighter blue Scandinavian shades and so on. What I’m basically what I’m trying to say here people is that white people were born.  If you wondered why white people love the air-con so much, this is why and I think that the human body is truly a remarkable thing. I don’t know why white people hate being too pale but I guess it’s also the reason why black people hate being too dark giving birth to the rise of the “yellow bone syndrome” but ya. White people were born and they naturally formed their own clans, empires, way of life and their languages developed. We had the Greek empire, to the Roman Empire and so on, the church developed and life happened over time with their monarchies. I want you to understand that it is natural for civilisations/empires to rise and fall. No empire or order can rule or remain forever.  

Around the 13^th century we had a period in Europe called the “Mercantilism” period which was a period where the nations believed that the more raw materials and minerals a country had, it was wealthier and as a result better off. They accumulated gold, silver and bronze as it was a means of trade at the time. They also understood that natural resources were limited and that’s what sparked colonialism and hence you had the explorers or settlers go all over the world to accumulate more resources. They came to Africa and saw the abundance of Africa and decided to colonize it the way they did and that’s how all these languages are all here. I don’t know when exactly things fell apart, but I want you to know that Africans were doing their own thing and traded their knowledge, music and secrets and that was all taken. Bear in mind as I said before that civilizations rise and fall and that was the fall of the African empire and lineage. Now understand that when lion alpha males fight and the one takes over the pride, it makes sure it kills off any offspring from the former lineage and as a result wipes its evidence of its existence. Now that’s what nations did before; they invaded lands, killed off the men, took the women and children as slaves and mentally programmed them to have an inferiority complex for their own purposes. This happened to Africans too, because their history and identity was wiped out and they were taken as slaves as any empire would during a takeover. Their surnames became the same as their owners to signify they were owned. This is why all black Americans have the surnames they have today and why Malcolm X had the surname “X” because he knew he had no idea of his lineage but preferred to go by a pseudo surname... Anyway over time, money happened, the UK, US and European dominance grew over time and people fought over land, power, religion and their radical ideas and had the discrimination they had. Discrimination was never a colour thing, one group always thought that they were superior and took over the other. This happened with Jews, Africans and even white people amongst themselves who had different background beliefs and that is probably why this whole Israel Palestine thing is also happening, always some idiot who has some self righteous and self justified reason to feel superior. RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS... History lesson is now over.

Now that we have that out the way, let’s talk about today and our current situation. 

Apartheid came and rocked this country but like any other civilization based on idealism it fell apart and this is what has happened. I want people especially black people to understand that for 400-500 years nothing was contributed by them because remember our history was wiped out. White people developed the world as we know it to be as much as people find that to be a hard pill to swallow. No modern architecture, no transportation no infrastructure no nothing and not because of lack of ability but because a previous empire fell and was taken over and knowledge of its former self and glory was wiped out. Now we’re here, 20 years after 1994 and we’ve all integrated and we can roam free although most people are still economically oppressed. 

I’ll create an allegory which I’d like to call the South African Marriage divorce allegory just because it sounds cool...

We have a situation where the white population married the black population in South Africa and the “relationship” was ”abusive” and the black people filed for “divorce”, developed their own independence but are in a lawyer fight because the whole marriage was in “community of property” and people are now fighting for that 50% thing. If your parents have gone through a divorce, you know how intense this fight is. This is also what happened in Zimbabwe. I’d be upset if I build something for so long and I was expected to give it away. Apart from the obvious racism that happens, it becomes worse when people are forced to fight for the same things because whoever loses will blame something he believes the other possesses to have allowed him to have had an advantage and in most cases it happens to be race. White people built their own empires and they are all being taken over by black people and the thing is causing uproar. There’s a mini civil war between black people themselves now too; the have not’s treat the well off black people with despise and it’s becoming a situation. The funny thing is that our country’s problem isn’t anything big, it’s just the simple fact that we have all just failed to produce or create further and more bearing in mind that our economy was originally built for 8 million people and then opened to now 50.7 million people!! I mean hello simple mathematics!! We are all trying to fit through a tiny ass door and we are fighting for the same limited things instead of building and creating more things/doors. Please Google the story of H.F. Verwoerd and see how this guy used his Psychology PhD, with his Nazi taught philosophies to create apartheid with the help of sociology, theology, law, economics and geography. The shit is mind blowing but it shows the impact of a single human soul on fire because he was motivated by how dirt poor Afrikaans people were after the great depression. When you’re done with that please Google a theory called “learned helpless” which speaks of an experiment done on cats in the 1970s. It’s an interesting read but it should make you realize that apartheid attacked the mind and that says nothing about the ability. If you limit the mind you limit the potential but let’s stop there.

Enough with the issues, let’s talk about the positives before I close off. 

South Africa is a beautiful country and I love being from here. Apartheid was shit and one of the worst things to have ever happened but some good shit came from that government. As vile as those people were they created the roads and cities we have today, they created the schools we have, created a currency the world can recognize, made the country accessible with our world class airports. The country is powered and cellular connectivity is a norm and so is our digital sphere. We have restaurants, fast food chains and South Africa is a country that other countries have felt comfortable investing in. And we have sport and teams like the cricket and rugby sides that actually win shit, and we also have Oscar Pestorious! I don’t know if people have went to other African countries but shit this country is light years ahead of other countries I mean we hosted the fucken World Cup here and that for me is amazing. We speak beautiful languages and have our own way of doing things which makes this place an amazing place to live. Sure white people are wealthy but you can’t blame someone for being born into an advantage. These are the things we have to be thankful for because the previous government brought it here and created all this for us. Some won’t agree but just look around you, go to other African countries and come back here and talk to me. We were given a beautiful platform to be great and for that I thank those apartheid losers because now we can cause a bit of a stir in the world. 

Once again, remember that our problem is that we have failed to create and do more. I understand that a person can only do as much as he knows he can and I think we’ve done a bad job and opening the options up to everyone. We are all born equal but not all of us were born with equal opportunities and that’s another story. White people shouldn’t feel bad for having had advantage in the past because the African empire fell at its time and that’s what history did. My problem is with those who still harbour that racist mentality now because it’s stupid but that’s their problem. Not all black people like the ANC and what Zuma is doing, I included but that’s not my issue again. 

I’m writing to you today because I can’t accept it anymore. I’ve been sent here to educate, inspire, enlighten and fuel a new change and that’s what I’m doing. I got my degree from Wits University but left it there because I wanted to do more not for me but for my country and the people in it. I could’ve made it in corporate as whatever, worked for a great company but I was a given a gift and a deep care for society as a whole and so I couldn’t allow myself to just make it on my own. I’m a highly intuitive and cosmically connected individual which led me to become an entrepreneur and have done some world class things now and I’ve seen that anything is possible regardless of what was thought before. My call goes out to all the young people of all races out there that want to do more and are capable of doing more. I know it’s not easy but it has to be done. Not everyone is a leader and not everyone can start something, because we are all not strong enough but the truth is that if we don’t, then this whole thing falls apart. If what I’ve written here has hit you, it means you know you should be doing more, it’s not easy but it’s the curse and burden we great people must undergo and carry.  It’s time for us to stop looking at government and start doing and creating our own shit. In a book I read recently it said that regardless of how talented or ambitious one or his parents can be, the time he is born into can render all that potential as useless. 

In case people don't believe me!

 This was the case for the eastern European Jews who moved to New York in search of a better life and were there around World War 1 and the ones who came after World War 2. Those that were there before World War 1, had to live through that and the great depression whereas those born post World War 2 and The Great Depression were born into abundance and that is the time the Steve Jobs and bill Gates’ were born into. We must now understand that we are in that golden era of South African history and the time is just right for us to have some serious fun, maybe that’s what they meant during the world cup when they said “feel it, it’s here!” haha.  

Our currency is out of control, our manufacturing sector was decapitated by the global crisis if 2009 and we have become a paperwork country with laws that seem to put apartheid in reverse. There’s no secret that unemployment and crime move with a one for one rate and right now looking at the current youth population, if nothing is done, we can agree we’ll have an angry youth who can be capable of anything seeing as 52% of South Africa is under the age of 25.

“The problem is that no government can create real jobs, only entrepreneurs can do that” – Midas Touch

A French guy called Bernard de Mandeville wrote a book called “Fable of the bees” in the 1800’s and basically said that if bees in a hive focus on themselves and push self interest the hive itself will be better off. He basically said that as long as the bees were empowered to do whatever they wanted to do without worrying about the hive, the hive would ultimately be ok i.e. Private vice produces public virtue and that is where Adam Smith got his invisible hand theory. If we can just get to a point where we understand the bigger picture and pursue our own ambitions without worrying about the country, the country will be well off. It’s not even about creating jobs for people, it’s about empowering the youth to employ themselves because what we have now is a wealthy nation that is being pushed by few people who are foreigners, get our currency and send it abroad to either India, China, Pakistan, Middle Africa or whatever which never enters our banks which renders our country poorer. If South Africans only understood the gold mine South Africa is... All that has happened is that they’ve produced a consumer and paperwork country out of us and that renders us helpless. I have no issues with foreigners because they are just trying to make a living but it hurts our economy and that has to be sorted out in its way. We also have to get rid of this trying to get famous celebrity bullshit thing because that industry is fake, trying to copy Hollywood and they know it. I’m speaking to all the real South Africans who care about this place, not the ones who live in an illusion and pry off the helpless minds of our people by appearing as gods to them when they really are common and broke. If being a celebrity is your dream then let it be so but work hard at it because you people waste our time trying to get us to buy your stuff when we can see not much effort was put into it. Don’t expect us to buy your shit simply because you expect us to support, no! If South Africans shoot movies, at least shoot a good trailer to entice me but don’t expect me to drive past a billboard and expect to see me at a Ster Kinekor. Those in the entertainment industry must work harder, smarter and begin to innovate because their contributions are only like R141 mil, which is a wannabe fraction/percentage of the $3.50bn GDP (2013 amount in real terms) but enough of that. 

I see us building new major cities, renewable energy and roads because what has happened in Gauteng is totally ridiculous. There are more unemployed people in Gauteng (1.2mil) than there are people living in the Northern cape (like 250000 people). It’s time we start producing our own goods, our own cars, our own phones, own software, own industries, new schools and new education systems. 

“If you don’t produce anything, all you can be proud of, is what you consume” – Td Jakes,  And that’s what has happened to us and that is why all these multinationals can come here open a burger king and people can accept a line equivalent to the 1994 voters line. I want you to say something to yourself and never forget it: 

THE SOUTH AFRICAN MARKET IS WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE OPEN AND THAT THEN MEANS THAT THE AFRICAN MARKET IS ALSO WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE OPEN BECAUSE SOUTH AFRICA IS THE SILICON VALLEY OF AFRICA AND IF YOU CAN MAKE AN INNOVATION WORK IN AFRICA, IT CAN WORK ANYWHERE!! 

 The possibilities are wide open...

I met a 23 year old Entrepreneur the other night who's hungry and doing big things and he told me this is what he thinks of his Finance degree:

hahaha I died! But this is the sort of thinking that builds/creates...

I do know that funding is a problem but I plan to do what I can to try to connect the funding agencies with entrepreneurs of [all] races who want to do things because I’ve done it and I don’t care about making it for myself. You can make it all you want, but to me if you can’t put someone on and empower someone else, you haven’t done shit. Let’s leave the government to be corrupt as they are and let’s stop being surprised by it, but understand that it’s on us to build this nation because the times are right and ripe for the South African story to be written and told. Look at your peers and start sharing ideas together and even start investing in your mates if you have to because that’s how I started (with my best friend (25) giving me his last R7000 because he trusted my vision). I’m sick of traffic, power cuts, grocery lines and all that and as an epic serial entrepreneur, whenever I see or hear problems I think “challenge accepted with some fun” but I can’t do this thing alone. If we don’t do anything as a whole we are going to lose it all and we’ll have only ourselves to blame.  

I hope you see that it was never a black or white thing but in all civilizations we can agree that shit happens but it’s not about forgetting or getting over it, but it’s about focusing on the now & moving forward. I don’t want white people to leave the country and I’m also tired of seeing people without hope and that’s where we as young people, black or white have to do what we can, and I’m not saying it’ll happen overnight but what I do know is that sometimes you have to throw a stone into stagnant waters just to get things moving. I look forward to competing with some guys in the market on some Andrew Carnegie vs. John D Rockefeller tip even though you’ll probably lose to me but hey we can hope right?? Haha jokes (ok fuck that I’m not joking I’m 26 & ready to go!) haha anyway to close off I’ll leave you with something powerful I wrote, a link to the Stats SA GDP indicators, the usual Drake song and another cool a song too & also remember to read read read!! 

 “The cards you’re dealt with at birth don’t matter, it’s the cards that fall out of your hand when you die that do.” – Llewellyn Tshesane [C.E.O of Swazz Innovations (Pty) Ltd]

Rather we live!!

Drake - "Pound Cake/Paris Morton music 2" 

Thought of this song by Rupert and the frogs - "We all stand together" today, I used to loooooove it as a kid!

 Hahahaha remember this song!!?!! Here's the link if you can't see it: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4xeidmjy6s

Stats SA link:

 http://beta2.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=735&id=1

The last wishes of Alexander the Great

On his death bed, Alexander summoned his generals and told them his three ultimate wishes:

1. The best doctors should carry his coffin;
2. The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones.) should be scattered along the procession to the cemetery, and
3. His hands should be let loose, hanging outside the coffin for all to see!!

One of his general who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain.

Here is what Alexander the Great had to say:

1. I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that, in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal;

2. I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth, stays on earth...

3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is TIME

4. We do not take to our grave any material wealth, although our good deeds can be our travelers' checks. TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.

5. When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back. Our time is our life!

So my dear friends, the best present that you can give to your family and friends, including me, is your TIME. May God grant you plenty of TIME and may you have the wisdom to give it away so that you can LIVE!

Poem by anonymous (1921)

  

 "Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You've all that the greatest of men have had;
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise,
With this equipment they all began.
So start from the top and say, 'I can.'
 
Look them over, the wise and the great,
They take their food from a common plate,
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tie their shoes,
The world considers them brave and smart,
But you've all they had when they made their start.
 
You can triumph and come to skill,
You can be great if only you will.
You're well equipped for what fight you choose;
You have arms and legs and a brain to use,
And the man who has risen great deeds to do,
Began his life with no more than you.
 
YOU are the handicap you must face,
You are the one who must choose your place.
You must say where you want to go,
How much you will study the truth you know;
God has equipped you for life, but He
Lets you decide what you want to be.
 
Courage must come from the soul within
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You were born with all that the great have had,
With your equipment they all began,
Get hold of yourself and say: 'I CAN!'

Confidence VS Arrogance

Ok this is one of those posts of mine where I choose to educate or blow the lid on some unexplored truth which leaves some of you people in the world with your jaws dropped on some “He did not just say that?!!?” hahaha just kidding! But before we go that route I’d like to thank everyone out there who has responded from my blogs and even E-mailed me telling me to keep writing, my blog is on 14000 views now and I guess you guys all contributed to that so thank you for passing my stuff on. Carla in France, Steve in Cyprus and Sarah in New York, I’m glad that my posts clarified certain things for you guys and that I could help restore your energy and drive because being great certainly isn’t easy. I shall be in New York City from the 15^th to the 19^th of September and the UK the following month so hopefully I can have coffee and a shot of something interesting with some of you guys when I’m there so just holla! 

Before we carry on I have to do my disclaimer thing for the sensitive people out there so without further a due; 

Disclaimer: Extremely low amounts of bullshit are found in this article. Not for sensitive readers, if you’re sensitive & love bullshit then stop reading!!

So once again human beings have been themselves and allowed something totally important to go unquestioned and unnoticed. A lot of people will tell me that I’m stubborn, arrogant, egotistical or whatever and I always laugh about it but then I ended up thinking about it while I was doing the number 2 the other day and the universe did its thing with me in the bathroom lol! (Stop thinking “eeeew GROSS!!” I actually don’t know why people like to act like they don’t take a shit often. Yes you do so chill!!) Anyway let’s start off with several pictures... 

Interesting pictures hey?? Anyway, the pictures say a lot about life and our generation today. We are all different yet what I’ve noticed is that we tend to ridicule those who we feel are not like us simply because they are not like us. Those we consider below our statue, we undermine and those we consider above us in society, we either look up to or hate on. It’s true that’s what we humans do. It’s like how they say everyone who drives slower than you is stupid and everyone who drives faster than you is a lunatic. When did you become the standard? When did you become the unit by which we measure where society should ultimately be positioned? Yup it’s always about that person in the mirror even if we never want to admit it and prefer to hide behind all the bullshit we keep re-fuelling ourselves with all day every day. My stance however is simple, I stopped caring about all these things society holds in high regard, I took a walk one day and needless to say, my pockets had holes and a lot of fucks I had fell out. By the time I realized it, it was too late, someone probably picked up all my previous fucks and now I’m rather feckless but hey. I find us as a society too interesting, I’ve decided I have no stake in the outcome and don’t fear anything or anyone anymore because I’m really here to do what I have to and have fun but let’s not side track... 

What is confidence and what is arrogance? Girls like saying that there’s a thin line between confidence and arrogance as if there’s some border control where confidence land ends and arrogance land begins and you need your passport and visa to get through so because of that let’s just unpack these 2 heavy words for a bit and see what we come up with. 

• The word confidence originates from the Latin word “confidere” which means to have full trust. This was later turned into the word “confidentia” which meant to be reliable, trustworthy and dependable which we got our word “confidential” from. The original meaning of confidence is literally "to have trust or have faith in an object or person". We use words like “Confide” in someone and a “Confidant” not knowing they are directly linked to our favourite word confidence. People will be upset with you and say: “You betrayed my confidence” so the word was never about a character trait but it evolved to be so and to speak about ability and since we don’t like history we just accepted it as a part of our lives. 

• The word Arrogant originates from the Latin word “Arrogare” which means to “ask” or “question” which then was used to make the word “Arrogate,” which meant to claim without justification around the 13^th century. The French then turned it into “Arrogance” as we know it today because they were in their French revolution thingy and were pretty serious about themselves and it has now just become a part of our lives.

Sorry...They were saying there’s a thin line between arrogance and confidence??????? Hahaha lets continue... Time for my amazing thoughts!

So I shall now differentiate between confidence and arrogance using nothing but common sense... I’m going to start off by defining and describing it, and then I will extrapolate its uses. Bear in mind that I am arrogant and so will naturally be bias towards it because that’s who I am but I will try to explain it all in a nice way.

Confidence

Confidence is that feeling you have when you know you can do something. It relates to a skill or talent that is either given or obtained and then honed somehow. People will ask you: “How confident are you with Microsoft Excel” or “How confident are you with people.” It has to do with a trust or reliability in someone or their ability to do something. Confidence is what people can grade you with. Society likes confidence because we all understand it and it is not threatening. Confidence does not disturb the order nor is it a problem. People are simply warm to confidence because it knows how to stick to rules and the boundaries. It is usable and requires a pat on the back once in awhile to know that it has done a good job. Before you write an exam, someone will ask you: “dude how confident are you about the work” and what they are really asking you is how close are you to knowing everything, because let’s face it, school was really about memory regurgitation. So confidence plays by the rules. Confident people make good employees and are normally good at whatever they do and are liked by everyone around them so as to promote the “corporate culture” whatever that is. They are seldom discouraged and wont simply quit on you as long as they feel appreciated and acknowledged. 

Arrogance

“When you find out who you are, nobody impresses you.”

Now confidence is one of those 10 in 1 words with many uses. I guess they figured it rolls off the tongue so well that they should use it for everything but this is where it stops. They went as far as realizing they needed a word for a confidence in one’s self and not just in one’s ability and called that “self-confidence” but that’s where they went wrong. Self-Confidence is arrogance! Remember arrogance initially meant to question or asks things. Naturally when someone asks or question things he/she will seek those answers regardless of the consequences. The word then was used as arrogate to make big claims which was seen as unwelcome because people have always been more about tangibility than intangibility. 

Arrogance is not the trust in one’s ability; it is the trust in one’s self. This means that an arrogant person must then have a pretty good idea of whom/what his/her “self” is all about. Arrogant people are the kinds of people other people simply love to watch because of the thrill in seeing that person bend the rules and do things everyone else would be too afraid to do. These are the kinds of people everyone secretly admires and just wishes they were but once again, can’t be. The “Harvey Spectors” of the series “Suits” and the “Iron mans” of world. Arrogant people aren’t liked by society because they are threatening and they disturb order. They ask and question almost everything because why must they accept everything? These are the people that feel they are and can do better than everyone else around them who are happy with whatever they get because they don’t see why they have to be like everyone else. They aren’t liked because they are unpredictable. To feel good about themselves they then go out to prove true the big claims they made to simply silence the people that said it was impossible, just to see them keep their mouths shut. I guess that’s the prize they get that compensates for not being liked by society.  

Arrogant people you want to keep and get rid off because they are sooo good at what they do but you’d probably end up firing them along the line because they will quickly feel superior to everyone in the work place and mess with the “corporate culture” and what not. Just think of Achilles from my favourite movie Troy. 

Who are you?? 

Now I want to go further and separate this apparently “thin” line between our 2 favourite words... 

• ·         Confidence is the shit you need to go to Idols or X Factor and try sing to some apparently great judges who you allow to either praise or ridicule you. Confidence gets you through the door because you trust you ability to sing or dance. Arrogance is the shit you need to say fuck Idols, I’m going to write my own song, find a producer, save up money for studio time and record my shit regardless of how my voice sounds because I’m willing to take a bet on myself. 
  

• ·         Confidence is the shit that makes you keep and update a CV for future job prospects, arrogance is the shit that makes you forget there’s a thing called Curriculum Vitae and you somehow feel you already are a walking CV.

• ·         Confidence is the shit that allows you to be happy in an unhappy situation because you can hold out longer in hope for better which is always a possibility. People who feel underpaid are arrogant because they overvalue their abilities and have no thought about the fact that if they are paid more than everyone else, then everyone else must also be paid more. They don’t care, it’s all about them, they’ll quit job after job and go look for something else the moment you tell them that you won’t pay them more.
  

• ·         Confidence is that shit you need to be a celebrity and walk red carpets thinking you look good wearing someone else’s Italian sounding design. Arrogance is the shit that tells you that you know you’re a great actor and simply wear your jeans, T shirt and slops to the same red carpet event because you know that it only matters when cameras roll on set, everything else is pretentious and what these people do to keep entertained.
  

• ·         Confidence is the shit that allows you to be liked by people because they can understand and quantify you and you care about who follows you back on Twitter and Instagram. Arrogance is the shit that makes you disregard who you follow back on Twitter or Instagram because why must you follow everyone who follows you? Think about it, if you follow everyone who follows you, where on earth are you guys going then?? Nowhere!
  

• ·         Confidence is the shit you need to get that amazing job. Arrogance is the shit you need to be great and create your own job. Nobody remembers confident people sadly but it doesn’t mean everyone should and wants to be remembered. If you feel you can do things better out there than other people, or you can pick out a lot of flaws or mistakes in simple things or people, you’re arrogant.

• ·         Confidence is the shit you need to make it in society and find love. Arrogance is the shit you need to go further and learn shit you won’t learn elsewhere to make your own way although love won’t be one of those easy things you gravitate towards because arrogant people are attractive but selfish.

• ·         Confidence is the shit you need to think. Arrogance is the shit you need to think big!
  

• ·         Confidence is the shit that you need to pitch an idea to someone. Arrogance is the shit you need to carry on going even if you fail at the moment. 

• ·         Confident take their abilities seriously whereas arrogant people take themselves seriously. A confident person is confined to the times where that skill is relevant whereas if you take an arrogant person back in time, he’ll simply find a way to take himself seriously there, read his Art of war and take on that era.

Note: Confidence is not that thing you need to bungee jump off a bridge or jump out a plane. That is courage. Whenever the obstacle is fear, which is in the mind, then the required pass is confidence. Whenever the obstacle is danger which is real, then the required pass is courage. Whenever the obstacle is you, then the pass and outcome is arrogance. 

To conclude I want to say you have to know what your ultimate outcome in life is and accept it. We’re not all meant to be remembered and we are also not all meant to be forgotten. The arrogant side of things looks cooler because once again we love those kinds of people hence why they are great or we are inspired, moved and entertained by them. It’s all about being comfortable in whatever you do and being happy about it. This thing of lying to ourselves must stop. There’s nothing wrong with being an employee or average or whatever as long as you’re happy. The problem comes when you’re not happy in which case you have to do something about it or you really are taking your life for granted.  

The truth is that right now we are all corporate slaves and yes even entrepreneurs because we’ve accepted money as a means to trade stuff. None of us are really free, those who have more money have more freedom but they are not free. Freedom is expensive as cheap as it may seem. The only free people are the ones who are in some jungle somewhere and don’t care about this “greatness” we’ve created that simply works for a very few and excludes the rest. 

I have accepted myself as being someone who’s very sure of me because my ultimate goal /outcome require me to be. I’m a dreamer and visionary and therefore do not only think but also operate out of the box. I’m here to change, create, fix and improve shit and my ultimate outcome means that I will not be liked by many people for the way I think or the way I do things as I do and I’ve accepted that and am happy with it. My purpose is greater than my desire to be liked by society. So it really comes down to accepting me and the fact that I’m forced to know the shit I claim to know and then produce results. It’s the curse of great people and no person who was ever great was ever humble, being humble is that way you act when you get some stroke of luck that many are deprived of like winning a competition or the lottery or inheriting millions, and you know you didn’t deserve it at all. If you worked hard to get to where you are you can’t be humble because it wasn’t a surprise that you got there, you decided to go there against all odds and you got yourself there. You can’t be humble whenever you conquer your inner demons and accept ridicule in your pursuit to do what you want to do because let’s face it, some people are so vast within themselves that the only way they can express themselves is to create something other than themselves to walk alongside them. At the end of life people will only have themselves to face and expressive people are going to be there with their creations and bid them farewell and leave them behind to affect the rest of the quantum time. Whether they are musicians or inventors, they are controlled by a force that we cannot understand but they know they just have to do whatever they’re compelled to do. Let’s face it, the world doesn’t teach you to trust yourself but teaches you to doubt yourself and put labels on everything to a point where u need things like religion and stuff just to feel ok or worthy with your life. Telling you, you’re a sinner and forcing us to say things to ourselves like: “I’m human” or “I’m not perfect or whatever”. If you argue your limitations, you get to keep them and you’ll be arguing and feeling inferior till u die. I’m from South Africa and that doesn’t mean anything less to me, maybe it just means that in Africa we play the game of life on hard mode but that’s why if you can do something great or innovate in Africa, you can do it anywhere in the world. So I’m here to inspire a generation and show them that anything is possible regardless of what your apparent limitation should be.

Like I said, my purpose here is bigger than my desire to be liked or accepted by people; life is just bigger than that. So I call myself perfect with all my flaws and strengths because I refuse to accept that I’m inferior, incomplete, a mistake or some sort of sinner. I am a beautiful creation just the way I am and love myself to bits. I look at the world, see the turmoil around me knowing I can help fix it somehow and instead of waiting for something to happen or a saviour, I think “Nobody is coming back, God sent you, and so be a force for them!” So if people call me arrogant then so be it, I’ve faced and conquered my demons and I guess I’m one of those lunatics that drive faster than everybody else on the road.

All that matters is that every day of my life I have fun and I’m happy, life is too beautiful to allow oneself to be bored for a moment, and I think we have the afterlife to be bored and all spiritual, but for now, I’m here to have fun and fuck shit up with a smile loll! So Rather we live!!!  

To close off; THERE IS NO THIN LINE BETWEEN CONFIDENCE AND ARROGANCE, THE 2 ARE DIFFERENT IN ORIGIN, MEANING, USE and OUTCOME! (((BOOOOOOM)))))  

Here’s a few Drake songs and 3 by Eminem that go with this post... and then a link to my favourite feel good song now by Mr Probz called “waves remix” ...

Drake – Headlines

Drake – 0-100/Catch up

Eminem – “Legacy”

Eminem – “Sing for the moment”

Drake – “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2

Eminem – “I’m not afraid”

Life is about expression and you're only here once, so express yourself now while celebrating every goal or milestone with people that matter. We are partying tomorrow and these are my game changing friends I plan to introduce you guys to. 

On the left is me, @Lui_innovator, Middle, @Khayski and right @ViniGege

  Thank you Universe...