THE INFORMATION AGE - WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

                Does money alone make you rich? 

The answer is no. We all know people who go to work everyday, working for money, making more money but fail to become richer. 

We also have that one friend that would say, "If I should just win 3million liedis ... Or bet9ja just pay me 1.7 lasaan" well, if wishes were horses ... 

There's the story of a golfer who spent thousands of dollars each year on new clubs and every new golf gadget that comes to the market. The problem is, he will not spend a dime on golf lessons, hence his golf game remains the same, even though he has the latest in golf equipment. If he invested his money in golf lessons and used last year's clubs, he might have been a better golfer. The same nutty phenomenon occurs in the game of money. Lots of Nigerians invest their money in businesses, mutual funds or real estate but invest almost nothing in information, hence their financial scores remain the same.

There have been 4 economic ages of humanity, the Hunter-Gatherer age, the Agrarian age, the Industrial age, and the Information age.

     People still think we're in the Industrial age where resources such as copper, oil, tin, and rubber were wealth, and where industrialization took over farm lands; that's why parents send their children to school, promise them great jobs if they graduate with good grades.

By hook or crook many fortunate students graduate with good grades but parents can't meet their own end of the bargain, so he or she is encouraged to learn a skill and drop the laminated certificate at home -  apparently there are hardly jobs awaiting B.Sc holders but nobody tells them that.

     However, it's the dawning of a new era, a golden age called information. That is what helps the graduate. He hones his skills and follows the trends, he reads and he practices. In this age, this is what separates the rich from the poor.
Abundant and inexpensive resources produce wealth, such as silicone, organic food, being an artist, ability to predict football scores; in other words, the price of getting rich has gone down ... with Information.

That is why a man can sell an inherited land laden with gold and use the proceeds to travel illegally to Spain in search of greener pastures. He simply lacked information.

     So, the good news is that information is abundant and free. The bad news is that ... information is abundant and free. The irony of the Information Age is that there is too much of it. Today, people complain about information overload. At any given moment a person can be watching telemundo, surfing the internet, and talking on the phone - while driving past Wizkid's endorsement ad on a digital billboard.
Isn't it funny that in previous ages, no one complained about too much land or oil?
Even in the military, wars are won with information ... the right ones lol. So ALWAYS make sure you verify the source of your information because it can make or mar you.

Bill Gates leverages on information, so does Dangote, and Mark Zuckerberg. You too, can leverage on this in whatever field of endeavor you find yourself.