Femi Lazarus argues that lacking options in life leads to suffering. He points to people trapped in careers they didn't choose due to financial pressure, and urges treating money and business as ways to buy freedom. His advice: run a business while finishing school, not instead of it, so you keep multiple paths open.
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Anytime you find yourself in a position in life that you don't have an option, you will suffer. You heard me. Any situation you are in life that there's no option, you'll be abused. So what you went to get in school that you call BSc is just an option. It's an option. Once you can't check out, you will cry. Once the children of men know that you can't check out, they will finish you. Have options. Why? Okay, so why did you study what you studied in school? For many of you, there was no option. If we begin to take the start now, I mean, if you ask you, what did you— when you got to admission, one of the ways you would know you didn't have a choice, you tell them that this is what they gave you. If you ever use that word, it's a sign you didn't have option. You wanted medicine, they gave you botany. How did— how is it that a system switched a medical doctor to be the botanist? It was not any system, brothers and sisters. There was no money. The trajectory of your life just switched from I want to be a pilot as a child So whatever it is you are doing now, just switched. And so again, religion tells you that whatever it is you switch to is God that gave you. You know, when we're in NYSC, they tell us in camp, these Femi Lazarus people, that anywhere they post you to, it's your destiny. Now they've kidnapped you.
So they kidnapped you?
No, sir, don't be deceived. Have options. The first thing you should do with money in life is not comfort, is to buy options. When you have investment, you are buying options. When you're building businesses, you are buying options. When you are learning the way you are learning here today, you are actually buying options. If you are currently a student and you're listening to me and you're feeling like you should get out of school because you want to start a business, I can say run the business and finish what you're studying so that you can have options.
