Déjà Vu
How to influence your future
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Founder’s Note
Have you ever found yourself saying, “Wait, this has happened before”. And then you try to predict what happens next, and you snap back to real life. That, my friend, is called a Déjà vu.
If you’re into time travel, parallel worlds, and black holes, then you should watch the series DARK on Netflix. To summarize, the premise is that a small German town messes with time and accidentally creates a loop, so the past, present, and future start feeding into each other. As they try to change the future, they are unknowingly creating the inevitable future. So that brings into question, do we actually have free will? Or has everything that will happen been prewritten?
SNAP!
Come back to real life; time travel is fiction, at best. You do actually have free will, and you can write your own future.
Whatever will happen in your life is written in real time; every time you use productively, or waste accumulates. If you spend every waking moment working on that skill, there’s no way you won’t be super skilled in X months. It’s a 1-1 relationship. To change your future, you have to do 2 things:
1. Write down your goals
2. Work relentlessly every single day until you hit those goals
There’s no world where you’d get lucky hitting those goals without working towards it. You simply have to focus on one thing at a time until your giant checklist runs out and you have to create new ones.
Stay focused
~ Thanni
State of Skills
Stay teachable 📌
Don’t emotionally attach yourself to applications 📍
Remote Resource Worth Sharing
Free Data Internships You Can Start Today — This resource highlights free data internships and project-based programs you can start immediately, most without any formal application process.
Freelance Formulas
Talent alone is not enough ‼️
Stop bidding 📌
Pro tips for freelancers 🚀
Dear freelancers 👇🏾
Founders Files
Hire a complimenting skill ‼️
Building is storytelling 🗣️
Underrated skill for founders 👇🏾
Jobs
Recently on NDZ
We published a new blog “Top Campus Student Organisation in Nigeria Universities For Career Growth” It highlights campus student organisations in Nigerian universities that build real-world skills, leadership, and career networks for life after graduation.
Last week’s newsletter “Break Your Brain” explains how discomfort is a sign of growth and how learning hard skills reshapes your mind through neuroplasticity.
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Quotes of the week
If you want to build something great, you have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time.
~ Paul Graham