Is this you?
Ten guides from Prof. Ayodele Rotimi Fatubarin on where to put your hours, your learning and your effort.
Everyone tells you to chase success, money and status. Few tell you what is actually worth the effort.
So you work hard, and still wonder if you are spending your life on the right things.
What will another year spent on the wrong things cost you?
What changes
Ten parts, each built around one thing worth your effort. You will see where your time goes, what to do with your education, which mentors to follow and which small mistakes cost the most. Each part opens with a shift in thinking and ends with a question for you.
What is inside: ten parts
- Work Hard and Spend Your Time Well
- Add Value to Your Education
- Open What You Were Given
- Find Someone Worth Following
- Add Value to Your Life, Not Just Your Career
- Know the People Who Answer for You
- Build the Country You Want to Live In
- Guard the Culture Worth Keeping
- Small Mistakes, Big Cost
- Build the Attitude of Gratitude
Who it is for
Students and young professionals. Parents, teachers, mentors and church and community leaders who want young people to choose wisely.
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About the author
He studied how seeds grow. Then he helped people grow.Read his story
A botanist and ecologist, Prof. Ayodele Rotimi Fatubarin was his university’s top graduating Botany student, on a government scholarship, and later earned his PhD in Ecology there. His academic excellence also won him an FAO Fellowship for postgraduate study in Tree Breeding. Over a career in universities and colleges, he became a Professor of Botany. He supervised projects, lectured widely on development issues, and wrote books for young people and on ecology and the environment.
In this volume, he gathers ten of his guides for readers of every age, and for those who mentor them, around one question: what is actually worth chasing?