Proximity matters. People you choose to spend time with can be a game changer.

If there is anything I have learnt from all my days in university is surrounding my self with smart people. As cliché as that sound, I lived and breathed that saying even though I did not know I was doing that at the time. Being in law school meant I was expected to live in the library reading wildly like my whole world depended on it. But that kind of lifestyle was meant for someone else. I loved life outside school. I loved making memories, I loved to have a good time and a good time loved me back. But I had this male friend named Obat whom I later nicknamed my academic boyfriend. An endearing word that motivated him to teach me all he learnt while attending all the lectures, taking notes and living in a cubicle in a library. Come C.A.T or exam season, I would not live his side. I even befriended his girl friend to tell her that I shall return his mans after the exam. And that’s how I passed all the classes. While the fact that I never practiced law is near here or there. The point I am trying to say is proximity matters. Go hangout with people who have been successful in the thing you are trying to achieve. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Micheal Caine says’ be like a duck, calm on the surface but paddle like your world depends on it.