Wakens the ferine strain.

There needs to be something burning inside you that pushes you to wake up and grind.’’

Excitement (wants and desires) serves as passionate fuel, as does discontent (undesirable situations). Both allowed me to do what others wouldn’t. If you find yours, you will too.

The separate excitation of the dynamo corresponds with the independently determined investment in the economic model, and the total excitation with income. Perhaps in this electrical age, the conventional metaphor of ‘priming the pump’ might be dropped in favour of ‘exciting the dynamo’.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

To give a dopamine kick and create desire, offer a reward. To give a norepinephrine kick and create tension, take something away.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

The strenuous life tastes better

Starting at the bottom makes you hungry and determined.

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

The strenuous life tastes better.

The redeeming character of Franciscan enthusiasm-it's ability to change, brace and expand the most unlikely spirits and impel them to exacting discipline and selfless work-are fully shown in her. (Angela of Fogligno).

The recognition is also a significant motivation boost and reminder that excellence pays. I hope it motivates other young Nigerians to pursue evidence-based research and conservation work with local communities to save our biodiversity and ecosystems.