Winning Against Odds

Here’s How To Do It.

Ogunranti Adebayo Moses
2 min readSep 11, 2024
Boxing the Wind

You’re genuinely playing against the odds, and let’s be real, you have to win. This is a Do or Die affair. Die in the sense that if you lose, you’ll face all the mockery and side-eye reserved for those chilling at the bottom of the pyramid, right there with the receiving-end-of-life squad.

Your odds of winning, becoming successful, or even reaching greatness are tied to your unfair advantage. What’s that? It could be:
•⁠ ⁠Exceptional skills (like, world-class good)
•⁠ ⁠Outstanding education(we’re talking IVY League-type pedigree)
•⁠ ⁠Business success(pulling in >100M NGN kinda revenue)
•⁠ ⁠Access to finance (deep pockets, whether you or your HNI bestie)

If you’ve got two of these in your pocket, congratulations, you’re already halfway up the ladder at 50%. But if you’ve only got one? Well, you’re standing at 25%, still in the game, but it could go either way. Better start leveling up fast.

Now, if you have none of these? Ah, ghen-ghen, it’s time to get cracking and grab one ASAP. The earlier, the better. Trust me, there are more people in this race than you think, and your chances of success shrink the older you get. Plus, your competitors? Oh, they’ve got the cheat codes, whether you acknowledge them or not.

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Ogunranti Adebayo Moses

I’m Moses. And I admire people and communities. Aside from the everyday startup development, writing is how I help more people.