DARE TO PONDER

The Review of the Book, “DARE TO PONDER”

With A Foreword by Professor Joel B. Babalola

One good way to broaden your knowledge is through reading. To read is to study, look at and understand the meaning of (written or printed words

or symbols) something. Reading easily makes you know new things. To liberate yourself from ignorance you have to read; just as reading makes

a full man. Here is the submission of Oliver W. Holmes on reading, “Life transforming ideas have always come to me through reading books.”

One aspect of books you will find helpful to your living is Motivational books. There are books and there are ‘books’. One of the good books you

can read, be motivated and be inspired from is “DARE TO PONDER”, as written by Olurotimi Odejayi. The book is a thirteen chapter

masterpiece, written to educate the prospecting reader on how to ponder cum prosper in life. This book proffers the simple and practical

guidance into how to live your life to the fullest through the maximum use of your mind and live better as humans. If you can follow the mental

blueprints discussed in this book you will surely make a quantum leap in life. The change of a man's status is a function of the change of his mindset, hence the conclusion that "The Mind is the Heart of the Matter, Just as The Matter of the Heart is the Mind".

Research has found out that no man can be greater than the thoughts of himself. Hence, the reasons for the clarion call for all men to ponder.

Just as Buddha corroborated this when he said “the mind is everything. What you think you become”. For example in Chapter Five, entitled

“Precedence of Pondering” twenty-four convincing reasons were given on why a man needs to ponder first before taking any action in life. In the

book are four scholarly-written poems as edited by Mr. Funso A. Isiade (Mcimn) and Foreword given by Professor Joel B. Babalola. The theme of

the book is – “Maximising Your Living through a Mental Blueprint”. When you allow the thoughts to flow, pondering sets in and you will astound

yourself with what you can ideate. It is what you can picture in your mind that you can work toward and to achieve. This is what is known as

imagination. You need to ponder because no man can be greater than the thoughts of himself. The limit to how successful a person can be is

determined by what he can think about himself. Napoleon Hill once said, “You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient

conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe; the mind can achieve”.