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Confidential
Dr. Demola Sogunle
Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC
May 2018
START WELL AND FINISH GREATA paper presented by
Undisputed World’s Excellent Personalities 2.
Preamble1.
OUTLINE
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3. Born As Geniuses?
4.
Extra-Ordinary Performance: What Does It Take5.
Most Important Factors To Monumental Success
Imagine the following on your graduation day:
Preamble
Graduating
with First
Class
Honours
Recording a
“perfect”
CGPA of 4.0
Winning 6
graduating
awards
Receiving a standing
ovation as your name
is mentioned
Getting job
offers from
MultinationalsObtaining a
post-graduate
scholarship
from Harvard,
Cambridge,
MIT, etc
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Big Puzzle
Why should you
spend 4 or more
years in
University of
Ibadan and
thereafter join
almost 18 million
applicants to
fight for
inadequate job
placements
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Undisputed World’s Excellent Personalities
Albert Einstein Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Chimamanda Adichie
Lionel Messi Warren Buffett Usain Bolt 5
Born as Geniuses?
Recent research undermines the notion of genius as
innate talent or ability
Talent is a poor indicator of your future success
Talent is not a free ticket to excellent performance
In a nut shell, talent has little to do with extraordinary performance and monumental success
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Factors to monumental success
Deliberate Practice
Sharp Focus
Hard Work
Strong Memory
Intrinsic Passion
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Sharp Focus - Follow One Course Until Successful
Dictionary definition of sharp focus
“the concentration of attention or energy on something
in a clearly defined manner”
Key words:
Concentration
Attention
Clarity of definition
Energy
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Hard Work
“Something requiring a lot of effort to do, either
physically, mentally or emotionally; labour; toil”
Key words:
Effort
Labour
Toil
Mentally
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Intrinsic Passion
“This is an emotional fire that drives an individual to work
so hard, and in such a focused, deliberate way in order
to achieve extra-ordinary performance”
What ignites strong, long-lived passion?
Intrinsic drive (internal or inner fire)
“Extrinsic” drive (external factors)
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Strong MemoryMemory in psychology is defined as
“the storing of learned information, and the ability to recall that which has
been stored.
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Perception & registration of
stimulus
Temporary maintenance
of the perception (short term)
Lasting storage of the
perception (long-term memory)
Deliberate Practice
This entails the development of painstaking mastery through
repeated attention or extensive practice
12“The difference between Ordinary and Extra ordinary is Practice”- Vladimir Horowitz
Deliberate Practice
“Know more” – it builds your skills in each
layer and element of great performance, so you
are more experienced and more expert than
your competition.
“Remember more” – Experience lets you see
and retain more information about your course.
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Deliberate Practice
It is estimated that by the time Mozart was aged
6, Mozart had already practiced for a total of
3,500 hours
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Deliberate Practice
Warren Buffet , at an early age, displayed an aptitude for
money and business along with an amazing ability to
calculate numbers off the top of his head. Warren’s
interest in money and finance started showing early, and
by the age of 11 he was playing the stock market and, he
now regrets that he started too late.
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Extra-Ordinary Performance: What Does It Take
The ability of an
entity (person or
organization) or
resource, measured
in quantity and level
of quality, over an
extended period
CAPACITY
The mental
and moral
qualities
distinctive to
an individual
CHARACTER
E.O.P
Final Take-Away
Lorem Ipsum
Passion
Strong MemoryHard Work
Sharp Focus Lorem I
Constant Practice
CapacityLorem Ipsum
Competence
Character
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Reference
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