In life, there are more probable negative outcomes than positive outcomes.
For instance, 2 people who are smart, intelligent, hardworking and focused will achieve outstanding success.
2 people who are lazy, unserious and dull are most likely to achieve record failure.
2 people, one is focused, smart, hardworking and intelligent, then one is lazy, unserious and dull. The two will still produce record failure.
Take it again. If you hang around 5 womanizers, drunkards and smokers for 5 years, you will become the 6th womanizer, drunkard and smoker.
If you hang around 5 disciplined men, non smokers, and sober men, but you are a drunkard, smoker and womanizer. After 5 years, at least 2 of them will join you to become womanizers, smokers, and drunkards.
If you hang around 5 wretched men for 5 years, you will be the next wretched man.
If you hang around 5 wealthy men for 5 years, your will become their chief errand man. The one that sets up the venue, makes the call to nwanyị nkwocha na ugba agworo agwọ, the one that arranges freshest babes, and the one that goes to shout at people disturbing you guys.
That’s why it seems like pessimists are always right when they predict things. Bad things survive faster, stronger and better than good things.
One bad infected seedling can infect destroy an entire farm, but one wonderful seedling cannot transfer it’s qualities to the entire farm.
One big robust egg cannot make a crate wonderful, but one rotten egg can make the entire crate a bad crate.
Since we were kids, we’ve been told that bad company corrupts good manners, and it’s true.
To cause war is easy. To maintain peace is difficult. To manufacture a car is extremely difficult. You can’t manufacture a car by mistake but you can set a car ablaze by mistake. Bad things are easy, stronger, fast to spread and grow and can last very long.
I just have to put this up because I know how much I have fought myself back in recent weeks from getting people involved in a few things I am into.
The reason is simple, if I bring in someone who’s not as prepared, committed, determined, focused and motivated as me, I might just kiss the whole thing goodbye. But I know that if two hands join and produce the work I produce, it will blossom x100, but I am reminded that it’s better to be alone and achieve little than add people and achieve nothing at all.
Two heads are better than one, only when it’s two good heads with equal vigour and motivation.
If not, it will become a case of, the man with two clocks but is never sure of what time it is.
And while you employ people, cofound businesses, combine with anyone, date or marry anyone, live around anyone, befriend anyone or other human relationships, do have it at the back of your mind that negatives easily win.