Blending Narratives

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The Compulsory Generosity
The evolution of tipping in America
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Tobi Adejumo
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Surviving Manipulation: Lessons Learned, Moving Forward
Are you a conscious manipulator?
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Tobi Adejumo
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The Pressure of Academic Success: Personal Reflections on Deception and the Pursuit of Perfection
"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” - Joseph Goebbels
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Tobi Adejumo
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The Challenges of Public Recognition
"I could list a dozen names, but in doing so I'd make 12 friends and 500 enemies" - Richard G. Lyons
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Tobi Adejumo
Kindness Never Expires
I have a beautiful story about kindness to tell you today, and this is a story of mixed emotions
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Tobi Adejumo
Who Do You Think You Are?
I quickly interjected with a deep and gravelly voice to earn their respect: “What do you do?”
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First Year PhD Review: The Apprenticeship Phase
Getting a PhD is all about making mistakes; failing fast and forward and the cross-fertilization of knowledge. You must get comfortable with wasting…
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Tobi Adejumo
If You Want To Be Successful, Stop Focusing On Your Intelligence (Do This Instead)
Who is the busiest person in the world?
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Mastering Eye Contact: A Powerful Skill For A Purposeful Life.
The 10,000 hour rule of mastery is right, I am wrong, and this title is pretty vague.
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Lagos and its Ebbs
Lagos is very stressful and upsetting. Honestly, I don’t think there’s anything special about the state. Apart from the obvious fact that…
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Dating 101
A humdrum evening when I was in my final year in the University, during a moment of my repose which seemed to be frequent since the…
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A tirade about my aversion for pictures
On the off-chance that there is a question I get asked apart from my name, it has to be ‘why do you hate taking pictures?’ Honestly…
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