real Jema

Joined December 2021

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If you could say one thing and be heard by the entire world, what would that be?

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What can you do with technology?
Growing up in the 1990s, the greatest innovators, at least from my perspective, were all the scientists who carried out research to come up with ground-breaking innovations. You could imagine these men and women in white lab coats hard at work doing research on how to solve the world’s problems. There wasn’t a computer class in my school at that time, so the most I knew about research and innovation was in my chemistry and physics classes, where I would often hear names of these scientists who had invented some amazing things.
By real Jema2 years ago in Futurism
Do I really need a new phone?
Recently, I lost my phone, and here is my experience without one for a while. Nowadays, not having a phone is like being handicapped; it's like you lack an arm or a leg because there are just so many things you won’t be able to do. Things like communicating, getting information, speed thinking, note-taking, purchasing things and much more. A great deal of our lives is getting digitalized, making these little computers indispensable, like an extension of our bodies.
By real Jema2 years ago in Confessions
How hard is hardworking?
In this article, I explore what it means to be hardworking and see some examples of very hardworking people and how they do that. Hard work is a very subjective topic. We all work hard at different things, even when this is nothing. You might be very hardworking and committed to doing nothing, that's still hard work. Hard work is subject to many factors, such as time (generations), location (country and community), sector of activity (white collar and blue collar), environmental factors, status, and much more.
By real Jema2 years ago in Humans
How to handle a difficult life
It's so mind-blowing that something so basic is still so difficult to understand for many people, but brace yourself. I am going to say the most obvious thing you have never thought of.
By real Jema2 years ago in Lifehack
How will you know you are wrong?
How will you know you are wrong if you were never taught? If you never learned the right way, how will you know you are on the wrong path?
By real Jema2 years ago in Families
The infinite circle of making the same mistakes
In the same way that we pass down our knowledge and wisdom to new generations, we can also easily pass down mistakes and bad habits, some of which are long-lasting and difficult to break. One of the habits I notice in society today is insulting. How come insults have been a form of expression for so long? When you think about it, there isn’t really much value we get out of it if not for spontaneous gratification. Flipping someone off, injuring their beauty or weight, etc.—these are all habits that don’t produce anything of value, yet they have been passed down for generations.
By real Jema2 years ago in Humans
How artists can make money (in Africa)
You are an artist, and you are thinking about the different ways you can monetize your art, especially if you are in Africa. Well, you are in the right place. In this article, I will share with you all the ways you can monetize your work and get paid for it. Let's get straight into it.
By real Jema2 years ago in Beat
Buy your freedom
The reason you are working a 9–5 job is to buy your freedom. I have already discussed in a previous article why humans are so interested in freedom. It's important for you to understand that ultimately what you want out of your job is to get your freedom. As long as you don't earn while you sleep, you are constantly trying to buy that freedom. Definitely, you might love your job and what you do but after working the same thing for a decade or two, it gets tiring, especially when you are forced to show up every morning to ensure that things don't crash.
By real Jema2 years ago in Confessions
Playing by the rules of the society
The human mind always yearns for freedom, which often means the ability to do what it wants or perceives as being what it wants like it sees fit. This often leads us to believe that things that don't go as we would like are oppression, which takes away our freedom. Rules are sometimes part of those things that we feel take away our freedom simply because they don't allow us to do things like we would like; they tend to force us to walk in a certain way or act in a certain way, which feels like it is against our way of thinking and thus feels like it takes away our freedom.
By real Jema2 years ago in Families
Let's disagree on this
From my experience, most disagreements are born out of miscommunication, whenever you have a person who isn't good at communicating what he or she thinks and another party who isn't keen on filling the gaps left by the former person, there are bound to be disagreements. There are also some disagreements which might arise even when both parties understand each other very well and do have the full backstory, in this specific example I am talking about people who do want the same thing but can't seem to come to an agreement on how to get there.
By real Jema2 years ago in Journal
The Opportunities all around us
Believe it or not, there are always opportunities all around us, right now somebody is getting fired, another person is postulating for a job, new businesses are getting started, companies are expanding their reach and looking for new employees and so much more. Whether you see these opportunities or not is really dependent on how hard you are looking, or if you are even looking at all. The economy is a moving machine, constantly renewing itself, taking in new energy and sending out old ones, looking for ways to optimize its processes.
By real Jema2 years ago in Lifehack
How to make a person disciplined
Do you want your children to be more disciplined? Maybe they are all over the place, and you’ll just like for them to take more responsibility for their actions and get a lot more serious with what they are doing. There is a lot of value in discipline, and it's the foundation for every success we obtain, so by all means when you want to have success then you most be disciplined. We want success for all of our loved ones, so one way of achieving that is instilling into them as much discipline as we can, so that even if we aren’t there, we are sure they are going to be alright. Literally success is associated with discipline, that's the guaranteed way of achieving success, when you are disciplined, then success is just a matter of time. Of course, it still depends on how you apply that discipline, if you apply it to the wrong things then you can’t expect much but even the slightest thing you do with tremendous discipline then you can expect to be successful somewhere down the line.
By real Jema2 years ago in Lifehack