I was watching my brother playing fifa and I saw that he just finished a match, the score was 15-0.

Ah! How come? I knew that he had change the difficulty to the easiest.
So I told him this:

/1

“I play the master league, I play the tough difficulties, they beat me most time, but I’ll quit and replay the match.

That way, I got better and I can play well against humans.

You see the way you playing yours, it’s called ‘deceiving yourself’, you can’t get better that way”

Some of us operate at the level of pamper... you know on twitter na, we have its standard. You hear people tell you “go softly, you still have time”

“You are in 20s and you want to be like dangote overnight, take it easier”

Guy, I can bet my life that dangote’s hustled harder

Successful people are 99% of fails and that 1% hit will reset everything.

I’m begging you, hate mediocrity in this life! Chai, Damola, I must never be poor in my life... People who hit true wealth have characteristics of GRIT! They bite hard and never let go..

The energy is not regular, they don’t do things the way it’s done... they invest crazy culture and are ready for anything that comes.

In this space, I have been blacklisted, but I can’t stop because of people like you who still find what I say relatable .. we gather dey

It’s relatable to you because I started exactly how you are starting and I know what worked for me.

Growth is personal, please, take your time to set personal goals and don’t be pressured by trend & traditions.

In the cases of learning design, here are things I need you to note

1. Curiosity fuels creativity. Be overly curious
2. Be intelligent and if you are not, it’s because you are not informed properly. Read/research everyday
3. Practice everyday
4. Choose the right teacher/mentor
5. Train your mind and eyes, so you can validate your works yourself

6. Measure your growth by sensing when you start getting irritated/disturbed by your works or when you start having confidence in them (in terms of pricing too)
7. Now this is the ultimate:
Don’t learn design alone while learning design.

— Design for Sales: Mix of design and sales
— Design for Marketing: designs and digital marketing
— Designs for Engineering: Design and Front End or no-code development
— Design for Content conversation: Design and copy writing
— Design for research: Case studies and UX research

— Design for Systems and processes: Design systems
— Design for Economics: Human Behavior, Demand and supply
— Design for Education: Design to know how to train, course etc
— Design for product:
— Design for identity
Etc

You can two skills at the same time while learning one.

As you start your design career, as early as possible, start personal branding with it.

I just want to suggest that you can own a space per se. In simple terms what people know you for.

1. You can be designer that is very known for selling socks

2. Or the designer that talks and know such much about design business — like I pretend to know
3. You can be known as the designer that sells food
4. Or the designer that is accepts bitcoin only as payment method

5. Or that designer that collects design programs fliers and repost it as design program “plug”
6. Or your concern is mostly about colors
7. Or designer’s health
8. Or you recommend and give content on best design gadget for their prices

9. Or you are the plug yo used gadgets
10. Or you talk about typography only.
11. Probably you are into designer interview
12. Or you cause controversies
13. “That designer that always talk about ‘THIS VS THAT’

14. Or you match-make talented designers to brand u think they should work in
15. Or you are into tables & chairs for designers.

Owning a niche is that!
It’s either you‘re building a community, business or lists outside the design itself.

Everything to teach you SALES at d end