 the evil genius in our subconscious mind. Let's talk about learned helplessness today. I want to tell you a short story about how learned helplessness can hold us back from being more, having more, and doing more. I will talk about learned helplessness in a bit, but back to my story. Once upon a time, a man was walking through the circles with his son when they noticed something very interesting. In the elephant area, all the elephants were secured with a tiny rope. I mean, this rope was tied around one of their foot. The rope was so tiny that all the elephants had to do was just move that foot with some effort and they would break free. These are elephants that weigh anywhere from 2,000 kg to 6,000 kg. Let's put their weight in perspective. That's like 40 to 120 bags of cement or rice. They were huge elephants. Why then did they not attempt to break free? Was it jazz? So the father and son went ahead to look for the elephant master trainer. I mean, the guy has to disclose the source of his powers, right? The jazz man that he was using. And the trainer told them something very profound. When the elephants are very young and much smaller, they use these same ropes, these same tiny ropes to tie them up. And at that age, the rope is strong enough to hold them down. So initially these elephants, these young elephants, they try to break free, but they quickly learn that they are powerless to do so. So eventually they believe it is impossible to break free and they grow older with this same belief. So they never bother to break free again, even though now they are bigger and it's possible without much effort. I think there's an important lesson we can all learn from this story. What the elephants are experiencing is called learned helplessness. Learned helplessness occurs after a person has experienced a painful, a stressful situation repeatedly that they come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation. So they do not bother to try, even when opportunities for change becomes available. Are you experiencing this in your life at the moment? Did you, for example, repeatedly fail math in secondary school and now believe that you can never enjoy the subject? Let's look at your finances. Have you been experiencing financial difficulty for a very long time that you now think or believe that you're not destined for wealth? Or have you had your heart broken by so many scallyworks over these years that you now believe that no one can love you or value you? What is that learned helplessness or limiting belief that is preventing you from living a fulfilled and a happy life? Well, this is the first time I'm hearing the term, but I'm very familiar with the pattern because I think it explains a lot of voter apathy. You know, in Nigeria, if we put it towards, you know, governments and society, people are just like, why go out to vote? Now, we know it's not real. We know our vote doesn't count, et cetera, et cetera. And yes, that may have been in the case in the past, but it shouldn't stop us from trying. And that's why in this example that I picked, it's really, really important that we engage the youth because the youth are going to come out fully in 2023. So it's to catch those ones that are in that state of learned helplessness, to say, hey, look at the other half of your youth, they're already on it. They're really on it already, but they need you. Your time is worth it. Your vote is worth it. If you want change, if you want to get out of this helplessness, all you need to do is take off that rope and walk. You know, so I think it's a great point and it's a great analogy, and I've just never heard the term before. Thank you so much. It's wonderful. You know, I said on this show before that man and a bat is a tabula raza. And you might see a man and a bat. I just pay for us that. The man is so elastic, so elastic that it can go to any lane to which you can stretch it because humans are the eighth, is humans on earth are eighth great treasure. Now, let me tell you something that this story I also had, and let me talk about my one animal story. Horse was stuck in a mud and the owner tried to pull it out, say run, he couldn't. After all said and done, he thought about something. Let me bring all that what he's around it to run, to move swiftly around the horse and he played the battle song that the horse was used to hear in the war, the war drums, and suddenly the horse was able to jump out of it and heading towards the war front. But he said, that's how it works. You know, when you are just used to go, it's like this, it has always been, or let's do, my father could not do it. So why can I, how can I achieve it? Nobody in my family was able to achieve it. Maybe me too, I won't be able to achieve it. I can't get there. That's the way you will stop. But the mind is so elastic and it works like a software. So you put the right applications, your mental computers and work. You can break free. Break free. So Victor, you are a life coach. The way to break part is right, it creates a similar pattern. So I remember somewhere in the Bible where Jacob and Leibann story, and it was almost looking like he cheated Leibann because those goods that were brown-sported were probably brown-sported. What he did was just simple. When they were meeting, he was showing those, the animal's brown-sported trees and they meted after what they were seeing. So that means your perception, your vision can override your DNA. So in your DNA, they were supposed to meet after the black-sported offspring. But what they were seeing overrode their DNA. So one way to do with the story, what we can do is to bring another elephant tied to the same tree. And make the elephant move. One of the old ones is that, oh boy, this guy moved too. This guy, I can't move. So I think, turning back to what Tonya said, we need to show you that the economy can work. If you're telling me that if I go out and vote, it's going to count. How? You need to show me something. It has to be very organic and strategic. It's going to be a journey. Okay, you know what? The local government is working now. Very soon, the next level will work. The next level will work. You can't say that by 2023, and that's always the mistake. Nigeria is going to become better and everything is going to work. No. Let's say a local country is going to start working and then from there the federal, like that's why I think we need to start showing young people results. Showing young people a different image. Those things that people play out, right? Because what you're locking as a belief system, you play out in your behavioral patterns and you get that as results. So we're going to call up, re-free, re-program, change the image, change the image to change the outcome. Language is really, really important in that. There's a term that's currently used in a lot of tech space, edtech, fintech, all that, and it's the unicorn. And I really dislike the use of that. I get why they're saying it, but what it then puts in the mind's eye that these are rare, that these are few and far between. So it then kind of removes that hope. It's far reaching. Yes, it's far reaching because it's a unicorn. It's myth, it's mystical. And what we should be saying is that, yes, this has happened. Let's keep trying. Let's keep going. This isn't a unicorn. This is just the beginning. That's the framework issue. It's the beginning. These are the first ones. There's more to come, rather than using terms like unicorn. So anytime I see that on my feed, I'm just like, oh, stop using this term. I get why you're using it, but it's not really helpful to the nature of what we're trying to do for this country and what that space is trying to do for this country. So I think language is really, really important. And key is realizing that if you are, have this learned helplessness, right? That does it equate to hopelessness? It doesn't. So it's also to kind of realize, okay, you may feel helpless, but are you hopeless? Is it that far? I think hopelessness is even worse than the helplessness. Just let me just add something. Just like in the world of financial attorney, you almost see this, when you are trying to grow your equity, your accounts, you grow up with your strategy. There comes a time that you have drawdowns. The account is going to fall back to a certain level. And then you're going to rise again. The curve is not usually smooth. It's always up, drawdowns, leaks, drawdowns. So during that drawdown, it's the job of the trader to maintain a positive mind. Okay, my strategy is going to work. Probabilistically, the edge is in my side. If you think your strategy is not going to work, the moment you try to help yourself and blow up your accounts. So that's how it works. If evil keeps winning, I think it would be so excellently used to allow it evil to thrive. So I think you start projecting. We weren't talking about Nigeria, start talking about some things that are working. The more we keep talking about things that are not working. Yes, yes. Because that is so true. We are all in charge of these things. The country is not working. And we are seeing these things as a very subconscious level. Self-fulfilling prophecy. Once we're seeing these things, guess what the universe speaks to? What is that in the universe? Oh, is it the Meta Vast Love? We're back to that, we're back to this again. So what we've got in here, guys, is that Nigerians, our lives are fraught. Learned helplessness in everything. But there is a solution. And there's a way to break this habit. It starts by you checking and asking yourself if that statement, that thing is true. If there is an alternative, if it is possible to break it. And if it is helping you, if that belief is not helping you, you should think of changing it. Because like Tonya said, there is hope. After this break, Felix is going to end the show and we'll be right back.