Adewale S. Adekunle

I doubt any speech is beating Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. It’s arguably one of the greatest speeches of all time. If you have some free time today, kindly go to YouTube and watch it. I spend a lot of time watching speeches, and in my opinion, these are the 10 most inspiring speeches of all time, based on the ones I’ve listened to. TOP 10 MOST INSPIRING SPEECHES OF ALL TIME 1. Steve Jobs - Stanford Commencement Address (2005) 2. Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream (1963) 3. Nelson Mandela - Speech from the Dock (1964) 4. Winston Churchill - We Shall Fight on the Beaches (1940) 5. Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address (1863) 6. Frederick Douglass - What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 7. Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech in The Great Dictator (1940) 8. Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet (1964) 9. Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address (1933) 10. Barack Obama - A More Perfect Union (2008)

SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL CONCEPTS YOU SHOULD KNOW 1. STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: A term used to describe situations where hostages or abuse victims develop positive feelings towards their captors or abusers. Example: A hostage begins defending their captor and opposing people trying to rescue them. 2. ZERO-SUM GAME: A situation where one person's gain is exactly equal to another person's loss. Example: Two friends apply for the same job, but only one person will be employed. In this situation, one person's gain is indeed the other's loss. 3. COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: The mental discomfort that occurs when your actions contradict your beliefs, often leading you to justify your behaviour rather than admit you are wrong. Example: Someone who believes lying is wrong gets caught lying and starts explaining why their own lie was justified. 4. THE JUST-WORLD FALLACY: The belief that people generally get what they deserve. Example: Someone loses their job and struggles to feed their family, and instead of acknowledging that bad things can happen to anyone, people conclude that they must have been lazy or irresponsible. They assume that because someone is suffering, they must have done something to deserve it. 5. LEARNED HELPLESSNESS: When repeated experiences of having no control over a situation lead someone to stop trying to change it, even when opportunities become available. Example: An employee who has repeatedly been ignored when reporting workplace problems eventually stops speaking up, even when a new manager is willing to listen. 6. THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA: A game theory scenario in which two people acting in their individual interests may end up worse off than if they had cooperated. Example: Two competing businesses keep slashing their prices to outdo each other until neither makes a reasonable profit, even though both would have benefited from avoiding the price war. 7. THE BYSTANDER EFFECT: The tendency for people to be less likely to intervene in an emergency when others are present. Example: A passenger collapses in a crowded bus, but everyone waits for someone else to help, assuming another person will take responsibility. 8. THE HEDONIC TREADMILL: The tendency to get used to the things that once made us happy, causing their excitement to fade as they become part of our everyday lives. Example: Someone spends years working towards owning their dream car. When they finally buy it, they are overjoyed, but a few months later, the excitement wears off, and they start wanting a better car. They forget that what they now take for granted was once what they prayed and worked so hard to achieve. 9. PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE: When people privately disagree with something but assume everyone else supports it, so they publicly conform. Example: Everyone in a meeting thinks a proposal is terrible, but nobody objects because each person assumes the others support it. 10 THE MATTHEW EFFECT: The tendency for people who already have advantages to accumulate even more advantages. Example: Two equally talented graduates apply for jobs, but one gets more opportunities because they attended a prestigious university and already have influential connections. 11. THE EINSTELLUNG EFFECT: When a familiar way of solving a problem prevents us from recognising a better solution. Example: A business owner keeps using an outdated system because it is what they have always used, even though a simpler and cheaper alternative is available. 12. THE HALO EFFECT: When one positive quality makes us assume someone possesses other positive qualities. Example:People assume an attractive, well-dressed person is intelligent and trustworthy without having any evidence of either.

Let me teach you some popular and psychological concepts and their meanings. 1. Schrödinger's Douchebag: Someone who makes an offensive statement and only decides whether they were joking or serious based on how people react. Example: A man insults you, and when you get offended, he says, “Can't you take a joke?” 2. Recency Bias: Judging someone based on their most recent behaviour while ignoring their past actions. Example: Someone who has helped you for years makes one mistake, and you suddenly treat them as a bad person. 3. Sunk Cost Fallacy: Staying in a bad relationship because of the time, money, or effort you have already invested. Example: You know your partner is wrong for you, but you stay because you have spent five years together. 4. Projection: Attributing your own undesirable feelings, motives, or behaviours to someone else. Example: A man who is cheating constantly accuses his partner of infidelity. 5. Intermittent Reinforcement: When unpredictable rewards make a behaviour harder to stop. Example: Someone who treats you badly most of the time but occasionally showers you with affection can make you more attached because you keep hoping for the good moments. 6. Fundamental Attribution Error: Judging someone's character without considering their circumstances. Example: You see someone being rude to a cashier and conclude they are a terrible person without considering that they may be under extreme stress.