Brilliance alone will not suffice for you to climb the ladder of success – you will need shoulders at some point. I was a very precocious child, my mother said to me. I asked many hard questions and was always inquisitive. Growing up, I challenged the status quo to the fury of some grownups. I slipped a little bit when I was in Grade 2, I played a lot and did not pay attention to my studies so much so that in one of my exams, Bible Religious Knowledge, we were given a multiple choice question, and we were asked “In what river was Jesus baptized, and there was option of River Ogunpa (a popular river near my elementary school then) and River Jordan, and I chose Ogunpa . I remember because when I came back to my senses at the end of the session and I saw red marks in my Report Card for the first time, I cried for days. I never looked back since. I was always among the top 1% of my class for the rest of my Elementary School, Secondary School and during my Bachelor’s degree. I prided