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Creating a better world, Education , Entrepreneurship, Technology, Innovation, Youth Issues, Volunteers work, Spreading awareness, empowering people, Spreading inspiring ideas.

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I believe that a vision of a better world is achievable by sharing knowledge and ideas, so my biggest passion is sharing my vision, culture, idealism, knowledge, and expertise with the rest of the world. Finally, I really hope to radiate the idea that we can learn from everyone no matter what race they belong to, how old they are, what they look like, how much money they make, or how they were raised.

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• TEDCred score: +31.20 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A reply on Conversation: Since we are in 2012, do you think that we really done with African-Americans and other minorities discrimination ?

  Sep 9 2012: Thanks my friend for the participation and emphasizing Feyisayo Anjorin say.
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  A reply on Conversation: Since we are in 2012, do you think that we really done with African-Americans and other minorities discrimination ?

  Sep 9 2012: That is wisdom, you gave the most logically thinking answer, hats off my friend.

• A reply on Conversation: Which is better social entrepreneurship or business entrepreneurship ? Are all entrepreneurial endeavors truly social at the core?

  Jul 26 2012: Noted. Many Thanks.

• A reply on Conversation: Which is better social entrepreneurship or business entrepreneurship ? Are all entrepreneurial endeavors truly social at the core?

  Jul 26 2012: Then i have to admit that i used to have an inception that was totally bazaar and could led to failures, so i need to make my knowledge more mature. i would appreciate if you could provide me with some articles, references, or books that will guide me to the correct path regarding satisfying customers needs.
  
  Patt i deeply admire your way of positive and solid criticism and would always love to see you in all of my conversations and comments, please accept all my respect.

• A reply on Conversation: Which is better social entrepreneurship or business entrepreneurship ? Are all entrepreneurial endeavors truly social at the core?

  Jul 26 2012: you just pointed to very important issue about the subjective of terms being used to defining "better, mission & goals". so accordingly we cannot judge the better as there is no stranded to be comparing against. seems very logical, but do you think that we can put a clear definitions for those considering the diversity, or will this always be a matter of subjective judging that will make such question always unanswered?

• A reply on Conversation: Which is better social entrepreneurship or business entrepreneurship ? Are all entrepreneurial endeavors truly social at the core?

  Jul 26 2012: Sorry my bad, Thanks for the reminder :D
  
  -- what do you mean by "we looked it the real way"?
  i mean inspecting what is going on in the reality, specially in the development countries markers.
  
  --If the business did not "give the needed care to the society" why would the customer buy the product?
  Because customers started to get lost with their needs, and i am taking here mostly about the development nations as i am so near to their reality, most of customers just buy because they like what they buy, nevertheless around 70% of bough products are either totally not needed, or way over the need (preferring luxury over the one that satisfies the need )
  
  -- "i wont depend on the customer to know if there is a need that is being correctly addressed" Who are you going to use then?
  I would depend on society needs not customer need, as i define the need that the business should cover that is something demanded by the society in general not a person or specific group of people, maybe it's not the right way to look at it from business perspective at least since as of business theory you should segment you customers, find their needs and fulfill them, but i see that those type of needs mostly doesn't represent a society needs.
  
  --"as they put money in products that are more of luxury than it satisfies basic needs demanded by the socity." Who determines if it should be purchased or not?
  The customer should, but i tried to point here that i believe there is some kind of immaturity in the consumers behaviors, even though i am not in a position to confirm or deny this, it's just point of view i had upon some inspection in some local markets.

• A reply on Conversation: Which is better social entrepreneurship or business entrepreneurship ? Are all entrepreneurial endeavors truly social at the core?

  Jul 26 2012: we cannot deny the fact that business entrepreneurs - in general - has a way more mature know-how, and a more stable & sustainable models, but also we cannot deny that social entrepreneurs did a distributive wave within the markets, and become a very active topic, and also we cannot deny that it made an impact on the business entrepreneurs, as we started to see a new tab in most of the profit based companies titled "community responsibility", this means that social entrepreneurs at some point managed to make a threat - even if it's minor - to the profit only based models, making them consider the social part. and yet i cannot disagree that the debate by itself is vague and has annoyed many of the business researches as it has no sharp answer, but though it still generates many ideas and shows very different point of views which is by itself very useful and amazing. Thanks Wali for sharing us your thoughts!
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 26 2012: Hi Don Wesley,
  
  Will certainly review it asap, it seems very interesting, many thanks for sharing it with us.
  
  Accept all my respect.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 25 2012: The intuition is some kind of multi-variable complex equation that has many inputs and various outputs, the inputs mainly revolves around on:
  - God gift intuition.
  - Intelligence in all of it's nine types.
  - Learning level and culture level
  - The past experience lessons learnt.
  - beliefs and point of views the person has.
  - Self-Morals
  
  all of those interact in strange mix giving the level of intuition each person has, we cannot give a component higher level of importance over the other nor eliminating it's effect, each of them has equal influence and the way they differ in the affect by doing combinations with other ones.

• A comment on Conversation: Does prison work?

  Jul 25 2012: from my point of view the majority of prisons in their current setup never work, on the contract i see it emphasize the criminal intentions specially knowing that lots of gangs were created in prisons!
  
  for prisons to be a place where it suppose to rehabilitate people whom were convicted with crimes, it should build programs that help them to get a profession and some sort of informal psychiatric treatment to help eliminating any hidden motives for the crime within the persons souls.
  
  Also we should have the societies look to the people whom were in prison changed, so instead of always blaming them and make fun of them, treating them like they are part of a social disease, people should treat the like human beings, we all do mistakes that either we can get the punishment for , or escape with none. So we should look with tolerance and give them the second chance to be good people again. also note that i am not saying the all criminals are same, there are some kinds of crimes that needs a special handling and this should be taken care off while we are building such culture.