THINKING IS THE GREATEST INVESTMENT.
It is an indisputable fact that the only vehicle that can
lead us to achieve our dreams, goals and aspirations in life is INVESTMENT. Indeed, many a youth have
come to understand that investment has a vitally inevitable role in achieving
success. In my view, the understanding of the term and its application is
skewed because the most fundamental element that one cannot do without is reasonable
thinking.
My interactions with many friends who are still struggling to
adjust their lives in their bits to securing a comfortable future largely
attribute to lack of capital, to start anything on their own. Unfortunately, I have
never heard any of them say, they lack strategic ideas. It is also a fact that
the capitals such people think about getting by magic or divine grace are some
humongous quantum of physical cash. I share a different thought with this
piece.
In my ordinary view, thinking is the core of investment and
for that matter, the greatest investment capital that is invincible but
centrally paramount. One’s ability to generate ideas, set achievable goals and
aims largely determines what he is able to achieve in life. I know that
reasonable thinking alone cannot do the magic but it has the propensity to open
doors for other peripheral elements necessary in making progress and prosperity.
For me, it is absolutely unproductive to work towards physical cash as capital
before generating strategic ideas for investment into any sector. Many people
fail in their insatiable quest to invest without strategic ideas. For me, money
without ideas resulting from critical thinking is profound poverty. Count yourself
a potential successful person with strategic ideas. I am not oblivious of the
fact that ideas without effective implementation only precipitate failure of
dreams but with ideas, one is far ahead of reaching success.
The world is ruled by strategic
ideas. These strategic ideas are the reason behind the proliferation of innovations
and inventions globally. The most critical thinker in this idealistic global
world is the one who makes use of his cognitive abilities. The problems people
run away from are those critical thinkers take advantage of, to cause a change
in society. In the most advanced economies dominated by the private sector,
your ability to acquire wealth or occupy a niche in the enterprise of
industrialization is largely dependent on your ability to keep on generating
ideas through critical thinking. Such a thinking is largely positive thinking,
resilient thinking, critical thinking, innovative thinking or call it visionary
thinking. Ironically in the part of our world of developing economies like Ghana,
people run away from problems and blame government or others without any conscious
effort of making a bold step to solving those problems through critical
thinking. We sit aloof and clamor for change of governments, government
support, sponsorship, good education, mechanized agriculture, improved
education among others as if those are the fundamental panaceas to our sea of
challenges. What are we also doing individually?
A society that lacks foresight,
is a society dominated by lazy thinking populace. This is evident in the fact
that most African countries with rich natural resources still lack the needed
technical know-how to adequately tap them to create progressive and prosperous
economies for ourselves. We don’t need any rocket scientists to tell us our
problems. Not even prophesies of our so called men of God, can perform any
magic in our lives if we don’t develop a positive attitude through critical
thinking. It is through critical thinking that can feed this nation with enterprising
ideas towards creating the much talked about industrialized nation we so much
desire. No politician can do it just be mere politics and policies.
Also, we must not only think
positively but originally. There is no critical thinking when you
lazily copy the thinking of others without a deeper appreciation and
understanding of the hidden spirit, wisdom, behind it. That is another
disease among us, Africans. Almost all our policies were blindly copied. We are
a unique people with different abilities capable of solving our own problems
but we have thrown those abilities away for an unconscious mental slavery which
is now our major development challenge people refuse to talk about. The worst
offenders are some politicians who continually indoctrinate the
younger generations. Most of the youth are interested in what to eat today and
not what to have tomorrow. At a point, I was perplexed when very educated men
of society who are politicians told the Ghanaian youth that people do not eat
infrastructure and that employment is solely created by government. Since am
not writing a political article, I would not dwell much on it but I succinctly
think that such backward thinking must be avoided in the mind of any individual
or group that aspire for greater heights in life.
We live in a society with so many
professors in diverse fields yet they are unable to proffer any alternative to
any emerging contemporary impediments. They are perhaps only competent in the
use of jargon and largely end up in politics with fixed ideas whiles the real
solutions lie in front of us. It is really fascinating. I urge my fellow youth
to take a different path and consider critical thinking, the greatest
investment.
Put together your aims and goals and
always remain focus and committed through critical thinking. Learn to adjust yourself
in the very "chameleonic" environment we find ourselves. We can sign our own
financial and economic freedom when we believe in ourselves than entrenching
our destinies into the hands of others.
Denis Andaban.
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