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I found myself reading a comment on facebook a while ago about  two

Despite all his education Atta Mills is a lesson in Incompetence

Ghanaian women on a train, one of them was exited that she had finally got her papers or “Nkrataa” as they call it in this country. She was excited and spoke about how she would now be able to do her cleaning Job well, and was probably going to go to church to thank God for the breakthrough. When i read it  I realised how Ghanaians had been brought up believing in “papers” or documents. We are brought up believing that without a certificate from a university or some clearance from the “home office” we cannot succeed  in life and we spend thousands on useless qualifications and certificates, only to realise in the end that those documents are not going to make us or take us where we really want to be. Now don’t get me wrong, education is good, everybody should learn to read and write and by all means we need doctors and Teachers…etc. However, i will not let anyone sell me the absolute rubbish way of thinking that teaches people that education is the be all and end all of success. Rubbish!

I love a good list so let me list out some of the popular misconceptions about education and success.

1. Firstly, there is no direct relationship between the two and if anyone begs to differ i will confidently say, the more educated you are the less likely you are to be hugely successful, unless, of course your only measure of success is education. Then again that proves my point, you suffer from mental Myopia brought on by over education.
2. Some of the most successful people today are college and University drop outs, people like Mark Zuckerberg (facebook) and Bill Gates (microsoft). I can mention many more.
3. Education is overated and can actually limit your creativity. Why on earth did we learn about Shakespeare and ancient Roman History?  Rubbish! you come out of school go into your first Job and you are as ignorant as the first day of school.
4. You can make it anywhere if you have the right attitude to life. I remeber when I left the University Of Ghana a couple of years ago, back then Going abroad to find work was the thing to do  we thought the grass was greener on the other side. The fools we were! Anyway today thanks be to God some of us have still been able to etch out some sort of existence here and just as it starts getting better i hear the same old voices again saying Ghana is really good now we have to go back. Rubbish! I am staying right here until I make something of myself! No matter how good Ghana is I will stay put! I can make it here. Just watch me.
5. In the Uk today Graduate unemployment is on the rise, because employers favour work experience, creativity and ability over worthless degrees and qualifications.

So what does it really take to make it in life? This is my answer, The right attitude, Ability, ceativity and shear tenacity.  You must also have that uncanny ability to never give up even when everyone would understand if you did. Never let any idiot tell you that because he has a PHD he knows more than you and you don’t have a chance in life, laugh at them when they tell you because you don’t have papers all you can do is cleaning, it is a defeatist Ghanaiain mentality, which is the reason why we are still srtuggling so many years after independence. It is because of this same thinking that incompetent politicians like President Atta mills of Ghana, are actually making things a lot worse. We thought we were hiring a professor to be our president, look what he did to our Ecomini, sorry our ecomlemle eii Our Ecomini is now resilient! President Omama Paa!

Love always

Alfy.