1) The author recounts his childhood dream of becoming a banker because he thought bankers were rich, and being guided by his parents and teachers into studying biochemistry for 8 years despite not finding joy or passion in it. 2) He realized he was not fulfilling his potential by blindly following the path laid out for him, and decided to search for his true self and purpose in life, finding his passion for entrepreneurship and internet marketing. 3) He argues that children should be given more freedom to explore different career options when young so they can consciously choose a path that fulfills them, rather than having parents and teachers decide for them based on biases like money.

1. Practical life series with examples from personal
experience
Emmanuel Otori
LIFE

2. “Ask a child If she could sing, she wouldn’t say no,
she knows no limitation, when she becomes an adult,
she answers in opposite to same question.”
Your Childhood
I was asked in high school while in my second year by
a teacher who considered me bright, what I would
love to be in future?, without any delay, I answered
in reply to say I wanted to be a banker, owing to the
fact that banker’s handled notes; I perceived they
were rich people.
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LIVE YOUR LIFE

3. Having answered the above question that seemed
correct, I spent the rest of the four years to graduate
from high school and another four years to study
sciences, this direction was rightfully paved by my
parents who took cognizance of the fact that I always
had good grades in science courses, so it was good to
have a medical doctor in the family and my fate was
sealed, however, I got to study Biochemistry.
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8 Years of Wishful Thinking

4. Everyone was happy I had made the admission same
year and would study a course considered professional
for the manufacturing, food, chemical and health
industries. It did hit me in my first year, and was a tough
question to answer of why I failed some courses. My
justifications were, I was head prefect in school, I passed
all my courses though with an exception to mathematics
which had a below average grade. I did not know what I
had gotten into, for the next three years of my life; I
lived in “fear of failure” but with determination tried to
come out strong in same courses with a “B” grade.
Regardless of the grades, I wasn’t happy, a part of me
was lost, this is not what I want.
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Reading should be fun

5. Having read books on leadership, self esteem and
discovery, I realized my pursuit of academic excellence
wasn’t my passion, and failure or success meant nothing
to me. I wanted more of life and decided from then on to
search, for who I am. Eventually, I decided in my third
year to tell my parents I won’t end as a medical doctor,
as suggested by my parents, to see the course through to
a medical degree. Almost four years and study wasn’t
fun to me. No I wasn’t dull, not less knowledgeable but I
knew I wasn’t living as well. I craved for something I did
not know about, but knew it was bigger than me and
knew I had to make it come through. I look at the
lecturers, the places I would work and had nothing to
entice me to this life; it was the beginning of my quest
for freedom – Entrepreneurship.
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On a journey of self discovery

6. Most of us are lost in life because we have been
made to tow paths that were predefined, at least to
the best of knowledge of our guardians.
“If the classroom does not teach the things we want to
learn and the way we want them taught, no child
would learn” (Irene Bangwell, Child Coach).
I had been computer savvy and did it without any
limitation; I conducted my first seminar in school and
felt for once I had a unique purpose for living. Asked
by my lecturer again, at the end of the final year,
who I wanted to be, my answer was different and
clearer – an Entrepreneur, an Internet marketer.
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Finding Life

7. I had found myself. Without any prior training on
computers or internet, projects and seminars that
had been rejected by lecturers from student, came
to me and I found solutions to them being accepted,
I soon became the go-to person to help search for
relevant materials online. This skill would eventually
make me a consultant who develops courseware for
International trainings with some taking place in
Dubai.
Ask yourself, what did you say, when you were small, in
ignorance, it could find answers to those unending
questions
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Finding Life

8. I don’t know if what you are going through is similar
to mine, it was painful but the worth is infinitesimal,
are you wandering or lost in life? Have lost your self
esteem? Behind on your promises? Reverse your life
a minute and look try to remember the things you
said about yourself, they are very useful. Find you
and for once live the ideal life. To your success
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LIVE FULL

9. Parents, guardians and counselors are striving to
choose career paths for their children, this shouldn’t
be their responsibility. Choice making if properly
taken care of during childhood would have exposed
the child to varieties of possibilities of life. It would
be easy for him to choose consciously when he
becomes an adult, because subconsciously before
the realities of life catches up with him, he would
have made a choice devoid of bias for making
money, but for a greater cause in life. To your
success
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What Parents should do

10. Emmanuel Otori is the Managing
Partner of Business On Webs LLC.,
and consults for corporations in the
Manufacturing, Banking, Health,
Non-profit and Telecoms industries
on Digital Marketing Strategies.
Visit his blog on
www.businessonwebs.com/blog
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