Olawulo, a Nigerian name meaning wealth of God, embarrassed the speaker as a child. Now he realizes people remember his face because his unusual name is so distinctive, making it his biggest professional asset.
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the name signify? Because I'm intrigued. So my name actually means wealth of God. That's what Olawulo means. It's a Nigerian name. And one of the biggest things that I learned later on in life is when I meet people, even if they cannot pronounce my name, they always remember me and associate me with my name because it's unique. Now it's that uniqueness that I didn't appreciate as a young child. And that's what I encourage anybody who's listening. Don't ever forget the things that make you unique are the things that could be super powerful in the future. Because there's been many people I've met hundreds of people, and you'll be surprised when people are coming, they start staring at me and I'm trying to figure out, man, where do I know them from? And I'm trying to place them, and they come up to me and immediately tell me where they know me from. And it's like, how did you remember that? Okay, well, mostly, most of the time it's because of my name. Even if they couldn't pronounce it, they said, oh, I remember his face. I associate his face with a name and that name with a place. And now all those things come together for them, so they remember who you are. And that becomes especially important when you get into the workforce.