4-D Thinking Extract Your Super - Iredafe

Creativity Series
4-D
THINKING
Extract your superpowers, solve big

problems, achieve better results, make
smarter decisions and live your dreams
with fourth dimensional thinking.
IREDAFENEVESHO OWOLABI
IREDAFENEVESHO OWOLABI 2
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 6
CHAPTER ONE: 10
THE CONCEPT OF 4-D THINKING
CHAPTER TWO: 33
BEYOND THE 3-D BOX
CHAPTER THREE: 63
THE PRINCIPLE OF REINVENTION
CHAPTER FOUR: 83
REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE REINVENTION
CHAPTER FIVE: 103
PEAK PERFORMANCE CREATIVITY
CHAPTER SIX: 132
KEYS TO 4-D THINKING
REFERENCES 184
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 189
INTRODUCTION
You may never know how powerful you already are until you
stop and think. That is when you would tap into your latent
resource potential and extract the superpowers within.
Many people who are groping in poverty, mediocrity and
intimidation do so because they have not had time to
explore the powers which they have allowed to stay buried
inside of them. Power to make money in large amounts both
genuinely and legitimately, power to make smarter
decisions, power to crush your goals, power to outdo your
last best accomplishments and experience the fulness of
life. The power that we have is unlimited and the only
obstacle to what we can do or become is the barrier we place
on ourselves from within. The world we see today did not
emerge from the third dimension of existence. In other
words, the things we see with our optical eyes and touch
with our hands came from the invisible realm of the fourth
dimension. And only people who can tune into that
frequency can explore 4-D Thinking possibilities.
In this life, there are no lucky breaks. Things do not just

happen coincidentally especially things that border on
success and purpose fulfilment. Let me put it this way, “you
cannot successfully climb a ladder to the top by accident but
you can fall from the ladder by accident”. So, you must
understand the power of thinking in the right dimension
and frequency where you can pick up the right signal or
what we call idea. Every radio or television outputs images,
sounds or both depending on the signals it has picked up
and the strength of those signals. All the inventions you see
on earth today were once floating in the fourth dimensional
realm as signals. The signals you pick determine the
frequency you would operate in. So, the output of your life,
if it would be good, cannot not come by accident or a streak
of luck. Even when the grace of God brings uncommon favor
to a man, it is not a streak of luck.
There is a huge difference between being favored and being

lucky. Favor is a spiritual blessing but luck is a belief that
events happen by random, improbable chance whether
good or bad. When you are favored, you are enabled to
receive good but when you are lucky you are disabled and
left at the mercy of improbable chance. Trees do not grow
and then produce fruit by luck. They do because they were
planted in favorable conditions of soil, light, water and what
have you. The big break everyone desires can be achieved
but it all begins from your mindset. This book is designed to
let you know that big breaks are not products of lucky
breaks but they are results of a kind of thought pattern
known as fourth dimensional thinking.
You see, without the mindset I am about to communicate
with you through this book, you would continually grope in
the dark corridors of uncertainty and allow problems to rule
your life, cripple your joy and abort your creativity.
However, if you can grasp not just the letters, but the spirit
of this book and apply its principles, the possibilities are
endless. You stand the chance of becoming the go-to-person
in your organization, industry and nation at large, whenever
there is a problem to be solved.
We live in a world littered with problems that seem to have

no solution or better put, have solutions that have not been
pulled out from the fourth dimension, in order to be
brought into the 3-D world of space and time. This is largely
because most of us have become limited by our 3-D way of
thinking. The fact however, remains that the more problems
you can solve successfully, the more progress and
advancement that would come your way. Simply put, the
greater your contribution, the greater your compensation.
There is a reason why you have a mind with such a great
degree of power. But most people only exercise the 3-D
potential of their minds, not knowing that it could do more.
The goal of this book therefore, is to help you unleash the 4-
D thinking capacity of your mind in such a manner that you
would take a quantum leap. This would culminate in
superior advancement in your career or business pursuit
and it would ultimately enable you to live your dreams.
Before they began to live their dreams, every man who ever
did anything great in both ancient and contemporary times
underwent what I have defined as a mind surgery. Starting
from the men of old that were spoken of in scriptures to the
modern-day inventors and creators. That is why I believe
this book is a veritable tool that every pacesetter or aspiring
trailblazer should have in their toolbox. You need a mind
surgery if you must experience the kind of mind-shift that
births innovation, reinvention and creativity. And as you
read, your mind would undergo a surgical operation that
would shift your paradigm for good.
This volume contains some vital truths that would deepen

your foundation in the crux of creativity. There is so much
to be said about 4-D Thinking and I believe you have
decided to read this book because you want to harness the
power of fourth dimensional thinking in a manner that
would bring about that turning point in your life. If this
describes you, then lets rock and roll!!!
CHAPTER ONE
THE CONCEPT OF 4-D

THINKING
We live in a world full of men who are
distinguished by their dimensions of thinking.
Iredafenevesho Owolabi,
International Bestselling Author.
The Inspiration
One fateful day, as I was preparing for a seminar event in

my study chamber, an unbelievable discovery opened up to
me. This event had been set to hold the next day and I was
scheduled to deliver the keynote. I was putting my final
thoughts together while creating my PowerPoint slides as I
pondered on the words that welled up from my innermost
being. This was another golden moment when I would
stumble on a treasure as I treaded the adventurous path of
developing a material that would be used as a visual aid
during my lecture. That was when I heard the three words,
which have inspired me to put this work together. The
words were 4-D Thinking (Fourth-Dimensional Thinking).
The moment I heard it, I knew there was a new goldmine of
revelation to be unearthed, so I began to dig deep into what
this was really all about. The findings I made were
remarkable and too extensive to be exhausted in a 50-
minute lecture delivery. That was when I received the
inspiration to pen down this masterful piece of art.
We all function in different dimensions and our experiences

in life can be improved when we understand where we
operate. Even though the word “dimension” has mostly
been classified as a mathematical or geometrical
phenomenon, the concept of dimensions and
measurements has a bearing on how we live as humans in
this terrestrial plane of existence called earth. The Bible
makes us to know that as a man thinks in his heart, so he is.
That means your thoughts ultimately control your life and
the kind of results you experience. It means that where you
are right now is a function of your thinking. What makes
this interesting is that when it comes to thinking, there are
dimensions to it. But before we deep dive into the different
dimensions of thinking, it would be beneficial for us to know
what a dimension denotes with respect to the ideas
communicated in this book.
What is A Dimension of Thinking?

In the context of this book, a dimension of thinking can be
seen as the way things, situations, problems and
circumstances appear to a person, when viewed from a
certain direction or perspective. Simply put, your
dimension can also be seen as your plane of existence or
plane of reasoning, and it reflects on how you see things.
This plays a pivotal role in determining how you view the
circumstances or problems you face at your home, office,
business, school and in life generally. Your dimension also
affects your approach toward problem-solving and this
holds a serious impact in how much you experience the
upward and forward movement we know as progress.
The Power of Dimension

You see, to be full of talent is not a one-way ticket to success.
There are many talented individuals who are nothing near
the accomplishment of success. More so, to be highly skilled
is not a guarantee that you would fulfil your destiny in a
grand style. There are billions of skillful and dexterous
people all over the world who are yet broke, depressed, and
frustrated. It gets even worse when they have skills but it
seems that their skills cannot deliver them. No wonder the
Bible says that favor is not necessarily guaranteed to men of
skill. By all means, talent and skill are veritable necessities
that could be used as tools on the journey to success and
purpose actualization. However, these do not guarantee
ultimate achievement or definite success. The prerequisite
for success in life’s endeavors is actually the right mindset
and that is the kind of mentality and thought process
produced by 4-D Thinking. I have met many skillful and
talented people who never fully exposed their potential.
They limited themselves by allowing their fears cage them.
They therefore end up always struggling in the local league
staying average and always seeking the path of least
resistance in pursuit of purpose. In the light of this, the
power of dimension is a major defining factor. What makes
a man with skill, talent or intellect become an achiever is a
function of the dimension of his vision, thinking and
mentality. Before we look into the dimensions of thinking,
please note that these concepts are my personal derivations
and revelations based on careful research, study and
observation. You may never find these concepts in these
fine details elsewhere except it was got from this book. Now,
let us look into the different dimensions of thinking.
Zero-Dimensional Thinking
A great man once told a story of an auto-mechanic who was
very famous for repairing what is now known as an old
model Volkswagen beetle car. He knew all the parts and
workings of this vehicle so well. He could even drop the
engine of this vehicle with ease. Everyone in the city knew
him to be the best Volkswagen repairer. All the big shots in
town who still had that vehicle knew his workshop.
However, as times changed, he began to lose his customers
because newer car brands came into the market and his
customers had upgraded their rides. Most of them finally
dumped their vehicles at his workshop to rot but this man
remained in that same spot, fixing outmoded Volkswagen
vehicles. Thirty years passed and the man grew old in that
same corner and died of poverty and frustration. Why? He
remained in the same spot, he refused to move or
change his thinking. He was a zero-dimensional
thinker.
Zero-dimensional thinking is the kind of thought pattern

that keeps a man on a spot for a very long period in his life,
without any notable advancement. Are you stuck at the
same level or place for too long? Or you seem to be having
the same result for God-knows-how-long and you want to
break out of that cocoon of stagnation. Then you must do
away with what I call the zero-dimensional thinking. It
is a very subtle thinking pattern that comes with
complacency. That false feeling of self-achievement you
give yourself when you have refused to add more value to
yourself.
When everyone in your little circle seems to flatter you with

praise because you are the one-eyed-man in the city of the
blind. The problem with most zero-dimensional thinkers is
that they surround themselves with sycophants. Sadly, we
have high ranking individuals in society with this dimension
to life. Some are so egoistic that they can go any length to
silence anyone who dares to challenge their zero-
dimensional approach thinking. They do this just to remain
in self-delusion that all is well when all is not well with their
thinking and living. We have leaders, politicians,
presidents, pastors, principals, husbands, wives, engineers,
doctors and people from different walks of life in this
dimension of thinking. These are people who refuse to
develop themselves and add value to themselves. Even
when they see other people making advancements, they say
to themselves, “that man is doing some shady deals, that is
why he is getting promoted”; meanwhile, they have no facts
to back such erroneous claims up. They only talk that way
because they do not want to examine themselves or push
themselves out of their comfort zones.
One of the best ways to jump out of this cage is this: when
you see yourself producing the same results
repeatedly, with nothing or no one to challenge you
to pace up and move you out from your comfort
zone, whether it be in your office, industry, society,
state or trade, you should begin to look for new
challenges. If you don’t, you would stay in one spot all
your fruitful years, then wake up one day to discover that
you could have become more and done more than what you
settled for. Refuse to be the one-eyed man who became king
because he was in the city of the blind. A lot of people do not
get to the peak of their creativity and productivity because
of the fear of risking their golden crown of mediocrity.
Hence, they have remained local champions when they
could have themselves become a global phenomenon,
making waves in a world-wide scale.
One-Dimensional Thinking
When I was much younger, I was very passionate about

singing. Trust me, I had a good singing voice and joined
both the local choir and the mass choir of my local church.
I became one of the best tenor back-up singers, if not the
best. I loved being a back-up singer because I had this
sonorous harmony that I brought to a song whenever I
backed up. I had a friend who was also an excellent singer
with an operatic voice. He was a very good lead singer,
praise leader, pianist and a guitarist. We were in the campus
choir and had an event in the city to plan for. My friend
spoke to me about being the lead praise singer for the event
that was coming up. He thought I could do well in that role
as much as I did in my back-up role and even better but I
thought otherwise. I resisted that thought so vehemently. I
just wanted to remain in that path of being the back-up
singer and stop there. But I had potential to become a lead-
singer. I had capacity for more and my friend who was a
great instrumentalist and lead solo worshipper, kept telling
me that I could do it. I refused and was afraid because I had
been a one-dimensional thinker with regards to my singing
abilities. I finally broke out of that paradigm and took the
challenge. As a result, I became one of the finest and most-
sought-for praise leaders of my day. There are a lot of people
whose potentials have been caged because they seem to be
doing well in one area, when they actually have the capacity
to do more in other areas of advancement. Such persons get
married to the mundane version of themselves and shun
opportunities for reinvention of themselves. If the founder
of Samsung company was one-dimensional in his approach
to the business which he established, it would not be what
is today. When Samsung was founded, it was a grocery store
selling noodles, dried fish, fruit, vegetable and other local
produce in South Korea. However, by refusing one-
dimensional thinking and embracing reinvention, it has
become a tech giant and a major player in the current digital
age.
One-dimensional thinking brings about a linear but slow

progression and your output is mostly directly
proportionate to your input. As a matter of fact, sometimes,
input outweighs output bringing about reduced
productivity. That means as a one-dimensional thinker, you
have to work harder or work for a longer time or years to get
something close to average reward for labor. An example of
this progression is the civil servant worker. In Nigeria,
alongside some other African and Western countries, a civil
servant works for maximum of 35 years before retirement.
Any civil servant that wants to be wealthy from working for
government must climb to the top in his department or
ministry before such a person can start to earn above
middle class. The sad truth is 90% of them never climb to
this level because the chances for getting into the top 4%
where you can earn more are slim. You have hundreds and
even thousands of people who are qualified for a position
and at the end, just one person gets selected or as we see in
some developing countries, the government could decide to
come up with a policy that neglects the qualified ones to
favor someone less experienced. Those who finally get
selected or get promoted into those juicy positions are
already in their late fifties, sixties or early seventies before
they can really enjoy the fruit of over 28 years labor. Many
never get to enjoy these positions before their time is up and
they have to retire or be retired and sent home. This is why
you must refuse to be a one-dimensional thinker. Refuse to
put your visions and aspirations on the shoulders of men or
fallible systems.
One-dimensional thinkers put their confidence in

systems that are not future-proof. They think they
have job security so they remain one-sided in their
approach to life, business and career. If only they knew that
what secures a man’s job or business are not systems but his
ability to innovate and reinvent himself, his career or his
business. Systems come and go, policies change with time,
hence the only way to truly stay above and be in the top 4%
in your industry is to break out of the one-sided approach
that one-dimensional thinking produces.
While a zero-dimensional thinker does not make any form

of advancement at all, a one-dimensional thinker moves
unidirectionally but slowly, along one path, with one style
or method that he believes worked before for him or for
others. He therefore stays on this lineal path and makes
some little progressive movements while refusing to
diversify. Even when the opportunity or need for
reinvention shows up, he refuses to break out. He therefore
becomes stuck in a tradition and shuns innovation. People
who operate at this level continue to move in one pattern
and refuse to diversify even when such opportunities avail
itself. They are too regimented and maintain strict but
unproductive routines. This pattern of progress is not
totally bad. At least compared to zero-dimensional pattern
of remaining in one spot with no movement or progress at
all, it is much better. The challenge with this category
however is, the individual hardly ever explores his potential
to the fullest.
Many businesses have gone the way of dinosaurs due to this

one-dimensional pattern of thinking. It is a mindset that
sticks to a method because it worked for them or for others
previously. Even when the method seems obsolete, archaic
and is failing they hold fast to their limited progression.
They forget that radical change does not happen in
arithmetic progression or even geometric progression. It
happens swiftly and sometimes at the speed of lightening.
If change happens at geometric rate then we must advance
at an astronomic rate to pioneer great revolutions. Change
happens every moment even when we are asleep. Hence, we
must be changing too inwardly in our perception,
perspective and dimension of thinking. God has called me
to raise kingdom citizens who would pioneer the next waves
of industrial revolution if Jesus tarries and we cannot
achieve that with one-dimensional thinking. Since no great
invention or phenomenon ever came about with one-
dimensional approach to things, we cannot afford to get
stuck at this level if we would truly expose our potential and
extract our superpowers.
People in this box are too fearful of losing or sacrificing what

they have in their hands for the greater good. Instead of
channeling that fear of failure into proper research and
well-informed exploration to test, experiment and discover
new vistas, they hedge themselves in and fail to seize the
chance to remain relevant. The Nokia phone company is a
vivid example, they refused to diversify beyond their normal
style of producing phones. Even when Smartphones came
on the scene, they refused to reinvent their systems in order
to take advantage of the possibilities that were open to them
being that they were at that time the big boys of the mobile
phone industry. They stood aloof and watched Apple and
Android as they made the most of the revolution that came
with Smartphones. They ended up paying so dearly for it
and fast became an underdog in an industry they once were
lord of.
Two-Dimensional Thinking
While one-dimensional thinkers are too fastened to the

traditional ways of doing things and hence are incapable of
experiencing the dynamic results that creativity brings, two
dimensional thinkers are different. They move in a random
and haphazard manner as they head toward their dreams
and visions. Today they are up, nest tomorrow their energy
levels are down. Their trajectory has an undulating pattern
of up and down erratic movements. They are easily swayed
by every fad and trend. They easily lose focus, move with the
crowd and have no consistent and persistent approach
toward progressing upward and forward only. Two-
dimensional thinkers always compare themselves and
measure themselves with people. They are enslaved to other
people’s opinions of them and always try to please people.
Jesus knew not to commit Himself to the compliments or
opinions of people. He knew the nature of humans, that
they are very fickle in their admiration and compliments.
Today, men would sing your praise and try to associate with
your results, fame or wealth. However, with the next
available opportunity, these same people who sang your
praise would jettison you for your counterparts. They tell
you that you are the best in your department in the office
and the next thing you know, they do another comparison
with a new staff and the moment that staff displays better
results, you lose your “office fan-base” to the new kid on the
block. That is the nature of humans and the moment you
give into these immature submissions with the wrong self-
esteem, you are done for. You would live life everyday trying
to please and impress people. Do not estimate your worth
and importance by having your name in Forbes’ list of
wealthy and affluential people. While there is nothing
wrong with being recognized on Forbes’ list, it becomes a
problem when a list that would likely be recompiled with
new sets of people recognized at your expense is what you
use to measure your progress. Don’t live your life like an
undulating graph that moves up and down along the x and
y axis. Be better, put your mind and affections on things
beyond the earth and beyond the opinions of men. That’s
one way to stay in the fourth dimensional realm of thinking.
Three-Dimensional Thinking
Three-dimensional thinking is a very powerful dimension of

thinking that is currently being explored by millions of great
thinkers, researchers, scientists, inventors, engineers,
developers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, politicians and
others today and this is commendable. We live in a world of
time and space where we depend heavily on our natural
senses of touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. This is a
blessing because we live in a physical world and must take
advantage of the tools available to us for interaction with
our environment.
We can borrow a lesson from mathematics in order to

understand what 3-D Thinking is really all about. In
geometry, the parameters for a 3-dimensional cube is said
to be length, breadth and height/depth. Now, there is so
much revelation and understanding we can derive from that
simple geometrical statement. First of all, we can clearly
deduce that there are three parameters that characterize the
third dimension. Drawing inspiration from that, I have
discovered that in third-dimensional thinking, the
individual is boxed in by the length, breadth, depth and
height of the foundations of his thought. I will explain what
this means briefly.
The length of man’s thinking represents how long he has

carried a particular thought which has now formed his
belief system. It also speaks of how long he has studied a
particular subject matter. This is part of what forms the
third dimension of thinking.
Another aspect of three-dimensional thinking is the breadth
or width and this speaks of how wide the individual in this
realm has gone in his explorative discoveries of possibilities
and realities that exist in this 3-D world. Some of the ways
to gain this kind of vastness is to be a frequent traveler or to
interact with different cultures and gain exposure. Reading
books can also do that for your thinking and make you vast.
Studying different courses to acquire new sets of skills and
to acquire several degrees can also make you versatile. It
can give you a knowledge of different things and make you
become a generalist. This is also a great thing to have but
there is definite more in the fourth dimensional realm than
this can offer.
Let us now talk about the depth or height of 3-

Dimensional thinking. This speaks of how deeply one has
researched a body of knowledge or how high he has climbed
in his thirst for knowledge. This is a powerful aspect of the
physical world or the 3-D world. A wise man once said that
there is nothing new under the sun. There is a natural law
at work in this world as we see history repeat itself every
now and then. The annals of history are replete with
different events, trends, occurrences and phenomenon that
man has witnessed in the process of time. People who
become specialists in a particular field are men and women
of depth. They have engaged in deep research and deep
thinking in that field and have become authorities by so
doing.
Most of the smart men on this planet today, function only

at this realm or in the other realms beneath the 3-D plane
of thinking, which were discussed previously. They get
astounding results and sometimes stumble on some signals
from the 4-D perspective without knowing. A few are open-
minded enough to use such signals for the good of all but
most of these people shut down these solution-signals.
Having said that, the challenge with 3-D thinking is that
there are no absolute results. The results are sometimes
based on empirical knowledge, estimations, postulations
and guesses. That means facts that we base our decisions on
in the 3-D world are transient and subject to change. For
example, that course you studied in school three years ago
has evolved and the knowledge you stuffed your brain with
now needs to either be updated or completed thrashed.
Science has evolved. What used to be a scientifically
accepted fact can change based on hypothesis and new
research discoveries. Hence, we cannot rely solely on third-
dimensional thinking. We have to upgrade to a better realm
and perspective in our thinking and living.
Four-Dimensional Thinking
A layman’s way of explaining 4-D thinking is, thinking from

the fourth dimensional realm and bringing those ideas into
the 3-D world where we can experience and benefit from
them. It also involves thinking in a revolutionary way or in
a manner that disrupts the status quo and births new
possibilities and realities. This is that producer of results
that can be measured in only exponential and astronomical
rates. The 4-D realm can also be seen as the realm of the
spirit. No wonder life is spiritual. 4-D thinking trumps 3-D
thinking anytime any day. It is from the fourth dimensional
realm everything that we see and touch today come from.
This is the realm where God exists and this realm has
control and power over everything that goes on in the third
dimensional realm. The solutions to your immediate
unsolved problems whether it be personal, career, business
or family-related, are floating in the fourth-dimensional
realm as signals and these signals require 4-D thinkers to
pick them up and produce them as solutions in the 3-D
world. When you pick up these solution-signals
from the 4-D realm, it becomes an idea. Fourth
dimensional thinking has no regard for the existing systems
or how long things have been done a particular way for long.
People who function in this realm study the systems of the
3-D world but flip the switch when it is time to proffer
solutions to the problems that embattle people and systems
in this realm. They pull out solutions in the form of
ideas from the 4-D world via 4-D thinking.
There was a man named R.G. LeTourneau. I like to refer to
him as a Kingdom business man. As a matter of fact, people
called him “God’s Businessman” in his days because he was
devoted to several kingdom-oriented philanthropic causes
and believed that he did not have to be a preacher to serve
God. He was of the belief system that God wants us to serve
him in the work places by the kind of work we do also and
this is such an excellent description of who a kingdom
business man is and how he thinks. He was the prolific
inventor of earth moving machinery. During the Second
World War, he supplied the Allied Forces with about 70% of
their machinery. This man designed and built machines
that were years and sometimes decades ahead of his time.
He secured over 300 patents that were related to earth
moving equipment. This man was a drop-out with no formal
education, he taught himself some of the things he later
learned but was able to pioneer the manufacturing
advancements of his day. Why? He was a 4-D thinker! He
was reported to be working at a construction site one day
when he began to see visions of earth-moving equipment.
At that time, they were still working with trucks and
shovels, but he received signals from the fourth
dimensional realms and impacted the third dimensional
physical world from 4-D thinking. He took note of those 4-
D designs and went into machinery production, thereby
impacting the 3-D world from the fourth dimension.
What do you think makes two men go check a piece of
property and one of them looks at the run-down property
and says, “nothing good can come out of this place, it is a
waste of time and money”; while the other person says,
“Wow, I see a great recreational and leisure center that will
attract visitors from all over the country”? One is looking
with a 4-D perspective, beyond what is seen, while the other
is looking from a 3-D perspective.
Fourth-Dimensional Creativity
From personal research, observation, insights and

revelations, I have derived an equation for creativity. That
equation says that [Creativity = Thinking + Production].
That is to say creativity is not complete until thinking is met
with production. In the light of this truth, I have taken the
derivation of this simple equation a step further to enable
you understand what 4-D Creativity means. Therefore, the
simple meaning of 4-D Creativity is [4-D Creativity = 4-D
Thinking + 4-D Production]. Simply put, Fourth
Dimensional Creativity is a concept that involves
inventing structures and infrastructures for the
production of the ideas that came about through
fourth dimensional thinking.
Henry Ford is famous for the invention of cars even though

he did not invent cars. Karl Benz, the pioneer of Mercedes
Benz was the actual inventor of cars but his cars were way
too expensive so Henry Ford came on the scene and brought
a crazy idea. Due to of how impactful Henry Ford was on the
everyday lives of Americans, his name became synonymous
to the manufacture and even falsely so, the invention of
cars. He believed that there could be a car in front of every
house. He wanted to make cars available and affordable to
average people and he didn’t consider the fact that it had
not been done before, when he nursed that vision. He went
ahead to bring transformation to global civilization because
he saw a possibility in what was once impossible. That was
4-D thinking at work. However, 4-D thinking alone could
not and did not deliver the results that emanated from
Henry Ford’s bright idea. He needed to solve the problem
that comes with problem solving. His 4-D idea was not
enough because there were no infrastructures on ground to
make it happen just the way it was in his head. He therefore
needed 4-D creativity to bring the 4-D idea he had to life.
He had to invent the structures and infrastructure to
produce millions of cars in record time. He had to invent the
assembly-line system of production in order to achieve his
4-D dream.
What we know as mass-production today was an invention

that came about as Henry Ford was trying to invent cheap
and affordable cars in numerous quantities. Now different
industries have adapted the assembly-line production
system. Some of the ideas you have pulled out from the 4-D
realm have to be implemented with the use of novel tools,
equipment, structures and infrastructures which may need
to be developed solely to make your idea a reality.
The Problem of Solving Problems

The problem that comes with problem solving is more
problems but it can be solved with 4-D thinking and 4-D
creativity. For example, during the Covid-19 pandemic that
began in China around late December 2019 and spread into
other nations around the world in March 2020, different
nations began to take measures to solve the problem caused
by the virus spread which was majorly loss of lives. In order
to curtail further spread of the virus therefore, big nations
and world powers like United States of America, United
Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Canada, Nigeria and the
likes began to shut down their economies, borders and
countries. Offices, businesses, sports, airports, public
gatherings and everything was shut down, because they
were trying to solve the immediate problem of the spreading
Corona virus and the deaths it had brought to hundreds of
thousands of lives. However, they created new problems by
trying to solve the problems they were faced with. People
were made to stay at home or work from home. Then the
problem of hunger arose in some countries and the United
Nations began to predict that there would be food crises
because of increased demand of food and bulk purchases.
More problems surfaced as businesses began folding up,
people started panic-buying, while organizations were
laying off workers, football clubs were cutting down the pay
of footballers and sacking their staffs. Private firms could no
longer continue paying their workers except with
government intervention and lots more. Governments on
the other hand were embattled with the crisis as the burden
of governance increased with the need to either produce or
import test kits, produce or buy more ventilators, give
stimulus financial packages to cushion the effect of the
lockdown on their economies, while maintaining a balance
in society and ensuring security. Then hospital staffs were
compelled to work overtime due to the teeming demand for
medical care and attention worldwide. A nation like the
United States of America which had banned some nations’
citizens from getting immigration visas a few weeks before
the crises hit, began soliciting for doctors from all over the
world to come to their aid because death toll in the United
States had become the highest globally, and they needed as
much help as they could get.
All of these paints a graphic picture of how sometimes,

attempting to solve one problem begets more problems!
When trying to solve a problem, a more disturbing problem
rears its ugly head because most problems are like octopus
in behavior. That means, they have many different
extensions and could produce an unprecedented chain
reaction that bring about bigger problems. There is
however, a way to solve the problem that comes with
problem solving.
Only 4-D Creativity can bring a holistic solution to problems

and it takes being a person who is awakened to the Spirit of
God to function in this realm. That is why you must unlock
your creativity. This is so because, trying to solve one
problem begets other problems, hence only a 4-D thinker
and a kingdom creative can solve problems holistically. One
man produced cars to solve the problem of transportation,
but created other problems like need for petrol in large
quantities, global warming, etc. Another man invented
Steam engine for railway to solve a problem, but other
problems surfaced as a result. The need for coal and other
energy sources, the need for rails, the huge demand for
manpower, huge demand for steel, etc.
Only God the Creator knows the end of a problem because
He is the beginning and the end. He alone can give you a
series of ideas that would solve a problem and it's collateral
damage holistically. That's why you need to unlock your 4-
D thinking and 4-D creativity.
Thoughts to Ponder
• Do not wait for lucky breaks, there are no lucky
breaks, look within and allow the gem within to
break out.
• Never take pride in the fickle praise of men, you need

sincere criticisms to overcome one-dimensional
thinking syndrome.
• You must think beyond the 3-D world to get 4-D idea
that will impact this world and its systems in a
transgenerational fashion.
CHAPTER TWO
BEYOND THE 3-D BOX

Creativity is the ability to think differently and
execute differently.
Think vs. Think Different (IBM/Apple Inc.)
I n the year 1914, Thomas J. Watson became the
General Manager of International Business
Machines (IBM) and after 11 months he became IBM
President. Before Watson joined IBM, he was the manager
of sales and advertising departments at the National Cash
Register (NCR) Company. He had a slogan for which he was
commonly known and that slogan followed him from NCR
into IBM. This slogan was a simple five lettered word which
went on to become IBM’s motto and trademark even up
until the time of this writing. Thomas Watson used the word
as a tool to always motivate and inspire the staff at NCR and
IBM. This word became so knitted into the core values at
IBM because of Watson’s influence and constant belief in
the power of that word. What is this word which became so
relevant to the IBM brand that it was boldly tattooed on the
walls of all the rooms in every IBM building? What is this
all-important word that every IBM stationery, scratchpad
and matches bore its inscription? It was the five lettered
word known as think! IBM did everything to make this word
soak and sink into the conscious and subconscious mind of
its employees. This I believe was because they knew it was a
requirement if they would stay relevant in the scheme of
things as far as the information technology world was
concerned. Every employee was made to carry a “think”
notebook on which they would pen down inspirations as
they came. A monthly magazine called “think” was
published and also given to the employees. The “think”
culture was so intensely burned into every IBM employee
that you could not but use your thinking faculties as a staff
of this company1.
At one of their sales meetings in NCR before he moved
to IBM, Watson was found motivating and challenging the
staffs. In his interruptive charge he pointed out the reason
for most of the problems that we see in our world today
which seems to have lingered without being adequately
solved. Even though he was at the time speaking to sales and
advertisement staffs at the NCR, his assertion holds true for
all men, women, boys, girls, students, professionals and
even businessmen. He said, “The trouble with every one of
us is that we don't think enough. We don't get paid for
working with our feet; we get paid for working with our
heads”. That is to say that the real work is to think of
smarter ways to achieve results and not necessarily to do
tedious and unproductive work. Another famous quote of
Thomas Watson is "Thought has been the father of every
advance since time began”. ‘I didn't think’ has cost the world
millions of dollars." It is no longer news that the highest
paid profession in the world is not real estate, sales,
pharmaceuticals, engineering, sports, entertainment or
what have you. The highest paid profession as famous
American bestselling author Brian Tracy fondly says is
“thinking”. No wonder IBM has remained relevant in over
more than a century of its existence. As at the year 2018,
IBM was reputed for having the most patents generated by
a business organization for 25 consecutive years in the
United States. IBM is credited for the invention of the
mainframe computers, automated teller machine (ATM),
personal computers, the barcode, floppy disks and the hard
drive disk among others. They are known as one of the
world’s largest employers with 380,000 staffs in its employ
as at 2016.2More than 70 years after “think” had been
registered as a trademark in IBM’s corporate culture;
another world class tech giant came up with a different
approach to “think”. It was the Apple Incorporated
Company under the helm of Steve Jobs. Apple came up with
a slogan that changed the game for their business in 1997.
This slogan challenged the long-standing critics of the
Apple brand and registered Apple as a competent contender
amidst giants like IBM and Microsoft. This was the slogan
that revived the Apple Inc. business after the challenges it
faced in 1984 which led to the departure of Steve Jobs and
20% of its workforce from the company. It was obvious that
Apple’s choice of this slogan, “think different”, was in
response to IBM’s “think” slogan which had made it a top
ranking and high value organization 3. From that time up till
the time of this writing, Apple has dominated IBM with its
state-of-the-art reinvention and innovations which made it
possible to have personal computers in the hands of almost
everyone in the form of iPhones, iPads and Mac products.
From the study of these two tech giants, it is easy to see that
though thinking is known to be a non-negotiable necessity
in the world of business, thinking differently is a more
rewarding venture. In a world where people have already
gone ahead to achieve amazing feats, only those who think
differently in their approach towards meeting the need of
the hour can bring about the next wonder the world is
waiting to benefit from.
I totally agree with the fact that the highest paid
professionals in the world are not those in real estate, sales,
pharmaceuticals, engineering, sports, entertainment or
what have you. When I heard Brian Tracy say this in a
seminar and in his books, I was astounded because that was
true. He went on to say that the highest paid profession is
“thinking”. Now, even though there was a great deal of sense
in saying that “thinking” is the highest paid profession in
the world, I came to discover that there was more to that
philosophy! It was in the year 2018 I discovered through
careful observation that there are many wonderful thinkers
who are still struggling in their businesses and careers. I
began to wonder what their problem really was and I
discovered they were great thinkers but poor creators. As I
studied, prayed and researched, I then recognized
that the highest paid profession is not really
thinking in itself. Thinking is the ‘next highest paid
profession’ after “creativity”! Creativity therefore, is
the highest paid “profession” in the world. The reason for
this is that there are many people who are great thinkers
and are full of numerous wonderful ideas but have never
executed any of those ideas. Thinking alone would not
result to monetary returns if the well thought out plans and
ideas are not acted upon or carried out. That is where
creativity trumps thinking! Creativity is the ability to
think differently and execute differently.
[Creativity = Thinking differently + Executing
differently]
All the great achievers in the ancient and modern world
were known for their ability to execute their great ideas and
beliefs doggedly until they created what was once a figment
of their imagination. This includes people in sports, music,
entertainment, medicine, politics, business, academics,
science, tech, government, etc. They all have one habit
which makes them creative while attracting to themselves
large streams of income and a robust cash flow. That quality
is the ability to produce their ideas into creations and
inventions. They did not stop at thinking and imagining
great things but they went further to do those great things
they once visualized. Do not stop at thinking; in fact, do not
also stop at thinking differently. Move from thinking
differently to executing. Do not also stop there but move
from executing to executing differently and your creative
capacity would be released to its fullest. Before you can tap
into your kingdom creativity, you need to know what has
been before. This is too important because if you must
think differently from what people are thinking or
have thought of before, you must have a good
knowledge of what has been thought out before. To
think differently means to think beyond the box, to be
unconventional in your thinking and to deviate creatively
from the status quo. If you must be creatively
unconventional, then you must be abreast with the
conventional. This makes learning from or studying those
who have done something similar to what you intend to do
inevitable if you must break fresh and new grounds. In
studying these already existing thought processes, you are
not to try to reproduce them in exactly the same manner but
to spot the areas where improvements need to be made to
enable higher and better results. This is not the case
however in some circles of learning where students are
trained and wired to reproduce what men of the past have
discovered and harnessed under examination conditions.
That is why the pursuit of formal education must supersede
a quest for knowledge of already established thought
patterns. It must be inspired by a search for newer ways to
achieve better results or the same results that were achieved
by the scholars of time past with less time and resources if
possible. This must be the position of the student if the
formal pattern of learning would bring him its ultimate
result.
Thinking beyond the 3-D Box
Your mind is limitless in its capacity to think and to
produce ideas. This capacity is heavily undermined when
one’s thinking is streamlined according to what people,
environment, or the state of the economy has conditioned
him to think. Thinking beyond the box is as old as the
creation and the recreation of this planet. It dates far back
into the beginning of the beginning when God established
His works. It is amazing to observe that God always thinks
beyond the widest imagination of man. God never
recognizes “boxes” when He wants to think because He is a
4-thinker and functions from the 4-D world. It is man that
acknowledges and recognizes imaginary boxes even when
they do not exist. When man thinks, he does so in three
different perspectives and that is what constitutes his
thought pattern. The average man thinks within the box.
His thought pattern is always within the range of the length,
breadth, depth or height of reasoning. The length of man’s
thinking speaks of how long he has observed a trend or
studied a phenomenon. The breadth of man’s thinking
speaks of the width of his thought base; that is how wide he
has studied and how vast his experience or the experiences
of those he listens to and learns from are. The depth of his
thinking refers to how deep he can dig into the historical
past or into the available data and information at his
disposal. While the height of man’s thoughts is all about
how high he has been able to climb the ladder of his chosen
career, business profession, art or science. All of that puts
man in a box of his own making. Man has never been able
to comprehend the length, breadth, depth and height of
God’s thinking. This is because it is man’s education and
understanding that defines what length, breadth, depth and
height is for him. From God’s own perspective, when He
thinks, He thinks according to His infiniteness and
according to His limitless capacity. God does not regard
length, breadth, depth or height because He is infinite in all
of these dimensions. That is to say, if you were to measure
the length of His reasoning capacity, it would be pointless
because He spans from age to age and from generations to
generations. If length speaks of how long He has had a grasp
of all knowledge, the answer would be infinity. If you were
to estimate the breadth of God’s thoughts you would never
get to the end of it. This is because God’s thoughts are too
vast for man’s estimation. The depth of His thoughts is
unending and the height of God’s reasoning is
unfathomable. No wonder the Bible says that God is infinite
in all His ways. On the other hand, when man thinks, he
does so with respect to his education, upbringing,
experience, knowledge, or background and connections.
Man’s thoughts are heavily limited by his five senses. His
mind is severely dominated by what he sees, hears, smells,
tastes and touches. Education, moral upbringing,
experience and all the other sources of information from
which we receive through our five senses are wonderful.
However, the issue is that the average man allows all of
these to cage his thinking instead of using them as a
launching pad to project him into creative reasoning. It
takes a man who has cultivated kingdom mentality to
launch himself into the world of creative and innovative
possibilities that would impact and shape the world in
which he lives.
FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE
EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR
WAYS AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR
THOUGHTS.
Isa 55:8-9 NIV
Even though the term “think beyond the box” is said to
have originated within the late 1960s to the early 1970s, the
concept behind the phrase had already been in existence. It
is amazing to know that the concept of thinking beyond the
box dates as far as the ancient times when man had not yet
discovered the coinage “think beyond the box” or “think
outside the box”. Even though this coinage seems to have
lost its real message and impact by reason of wrong use or
overuse, it still remains something that needs to be
thoroughly understood. Thinking beyond the box simply
means relieving oneself of the ordinary thoughts that the
average human mind can produce. It requires plugging into
a higher source from where higher thoughts can be
contacted. God’s thoughts are the highest kind of thoughts
and they are the source of creativity. 4-D creativity requires
that we function at the frequency in which God thinks and
creates. That is also what it means to think God’s thoughts
after Him. The thoughts of God according to the above
verses are far removed from man’s reach. Only those who
cultivate kingdom mentality and train their minds to think
high thoughts can truly think beyond the box. Some thought
leaders in trying to motivate people say things like, “there is
no box” or “think like there is no box”. While that sounds
wonderful, it is far removed from the reality of things and
the true meaning of the coinage “think beyond the box”.
This is so because the expression does not necessarily mean
that there is a physical box somewhere. The box actually
typifies the experiences of the past, of others and the
limitations that traditional way of doing things imposes on
us. As long as you are in this world, you always have a battle
that takes place in your mind trying to make you remain
ordinary or to conform to the norms prescribed by the
opinions of people. As long as you do business in the society
where people with different experiences and thoughts
interact, there is a box to deal with. There is no point trying
to tell someone there is no “box” just to sound cool or to
make him feel nice. It serves no purpose because the truth
is, we are constantly hedged in by many thoughts and
opinions that are subtly but surely suggested to our minds
in a way that may cause the untrained mind to get boxed in
and unproductive. All these limiting opinions contribute to
the imaginations and thoughts that make the average mind
fail to function to its fullest potential. This results in men
that are afraid to be extraordinary and refuse to take action.
The concept of thinking beyond the box stands on the fact
that there is a tendency to be boxed in by virtue of man’s
fallen nature. The concept is one that recognizes the
presence of a “box” and refuses to be hedged in by every
such “boxes”. No wonder scripture instructs us to cast down
imaginations, thoughts and arguments that try to contend
for our destiny and its fulfillment. God is the greatest
thinker that you can ever think of. He thinks
beyond man’s “box” all the time. It may surprise you
to know that all through scripture, God never performed
any miracle the same way twice; He always put a twist to it
every time He performed a miraculous feat. Why? It is
simply because God is a Creative Creator. He brought out
water from the rock in the wilderness of Sin for the
Israelites to quench their thirst once. Several years later, the
same need arose in the wilderness but instead of applying
the same old solution which He introduced previously; God
decides to think beyond that conventional method and
tweaks the miracle a bit. The need was absolutely the same;
the problem that came as a result of the need remained
unchanged. However, God being an innovative and
inventive Creator decided to solve that same problem
unconventionally. As a result, God put a twist to His past
method of solving the thirst problem of the Israelites in the
wilderness. Even though God knew that the same method
would have delivered the result of bringing water out of the
rock, He told Moses to engage a new invention. Let us
examine this very impactful illustration from the account of
scripture below:
The whole Israelite community set out from the
Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the
Lord commanded. THEY CAMPED AT REPHIDIM,
BUT THERE WAS NO WATER FOR THE PEOPLE
TO DRINK. SO THEY QUARRELED WITH MOSES
AND SAID, "GIVE US WATER TO DRINK." Moses
replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do
you put the Lord to the test?" But the people were
thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against
Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of
Egypt to make us and our children and livestock
die of thirst?" Then Moses cried out to the Lord,
"What am I to do with these people? They are
almost ready to stone me." THE LORD
ANSWERED MOSES, "walk on ahead of the
people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel
and take in your hand the staff with which you
struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before
you by the rock at Horeb. STRIKE THE ROCK,
AND WATER WILL COME OUT OF IT FOR THE
PEOPLE TO DRINK." So Moses did this in the sight
of the elders of Israel.
Ex 17:1-6 NIV
This verse shows how God brought fresh water out from
the rock in the wilderness in order to meet the need which
the Israelites had, thus solving their thirst problem. The
service that was to be provided was water for over six
million Jews to drink along with the animals which were
with them. God in His awesome power and creativity told
Moses to strike the rock in order to fix that need. As soon as
Moses struck it, water came gushing out of the dry rock and
the Israelites had more than enough to drink. When the
same problem arose much later, Moses held on to the same
method which God had already discarded and that singular
act was what stopped Moses from making it into the
Promised Land. The reason Moses’ career experienced an
abrupt end was because he did not obey God’s instruction
for a more creative new approach to problem solving. Moses
failed because he refused to present God before the people
as the Almighty Inventor who does not dwell in His past
accomplishments but constantly brings new solutions to old
or new problems. This brought his leadership career to a
tragic end. Below is the account of how God intended to
perform a miracle in a different way from the way He had
done it before:
NOW THERE WAS NO WATER FOR THE
COMMUNITY, and the people gathered in
opposition to Moses and Aaron. They quarreled
with Moses and said, "If only we had died when
our brothers fell dead before the Lord! Why did
you bring the Lord's community into this desert,
that we and our livestock should die here? Why did
you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place?
It has no grain or figs, grapevines or
pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!"
Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown,
and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. THE
LORD SAID TO MOSES, "take the staff, and you
and your brother Aaron gather the assembly
together. SPEAK TO THAT ROCK BEFORE THEIR
EYES AND IT WILL POUR OUT ITS WATER. You
will bring water out of the rock for the community
so they and their livestock can drink." THEN
MOSES RAISED HIS ARM AND STRUCK THE
ROCK TWICE WITH HIS STAFF. WATER GUSHED
OUT, and the community and their livestock
drank.
Num 20:2-8, 11 NIV
This proves God to be an innovative God. There are two
cardinal objectives that drive new innovations. These
objectives are driven towards reducing cost of production
and, or increasing efficiency of the product or service being
offered. If Moses had heeded the instruction of God on how
to perform the miracle of bringing water from the rock, he
would have expended less energy and yet gotten a better
result. Notice that even though Moses chose to hold onto a
past method, the water still came out. He got results but he
got it at a greater expense and effort. That is easy to see
because Moses needed to strike the rock twice to get a result
he would have got with less effort if he had accepted God’s
strategic solution. He would have got a better result with
even less effort if only he spoke to the rock as God
instructed. God was actually trying to teach Moses the
secret to getting more results with less effort which is a
cardinal objective of innovation and reinvention. But Moses
preferred to do it the old conventional way out of
disobedience, anger and emotional attachment to an
outdated method. With the way God rebuked Moses, you
can tell that God takes glory and honor in always creating
and innovating new solutions to problems.
But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "BECAUSE
YOU DID NOT TRUST IN ME ENOUGH TO HONOR
ME AS HOLY IN THE SIGHT OF THE ISRAELITES,
you will not bring this community into the land I
give them."
Num 20:12 NIV
God counted it as honor to be displayed before the people
of Israel as a creative Creator. God also told Moses that he
did not present Him before the Israelites as holy. The word
“holy” means to be separated, set apart and sanctified unto
an exclusive class. That singular act of repeating an old
method as opposed to the instructions of the Chief Creator
of all the galaxies brought the career of Moses to an end.
This was what led to Moses not being able to enter into the
land flowing with milk and honey with the Israelite.
Every student, professional or business man who wants
to get into the perfect destiny design of God for their
academics, careers and businesses must be ready to do away
with their convention of what worked previously for them
or for the previous generation. They must be open to more
unique and peculiar ways of achieving greater results in a
faster and a better manner. They must be on the move and
press to the mark of the high calling of God in their
respective pursuits. They must do away with past methods
that worked before and previous approaches that were
applied by introducing more innovative methods. That
means that it is not only when something fails to work it
should be changed but sometimes even when the old system
still works, an upgrade would add greater value and
increase productivity. Failure to do this may mark one out
from entering into the milk and honey of their life’s pursuits
and endeavors the way it did for Moses. When Moses was
supposed to begin enjoying what he had labored for, his
failure to put his mind on the same frequency with God cost
him what would have been a fulfilling and happy end in his
life and career. God always looks forward to doing new
things because He is always creating new ways to impact the
earth with the systems of the kingdom of heaven. The
average man revels in his accolades and degrees without
knowing that the moment another day passed by, these
achievements lost its real value. This is so because while
earning a degree is wonderful, it is only a proof that you
studied what obtained in your field of study as at the period
you were in school. The moment you come out of school new
things are being discovered that would require an update in
the knowledge you must have acquired in school for you to
remain relevant in that field. That was why God had to keep
instructing the children of Israel to forget the former things
they had accomplished and look out for new things. In order
to receive new things or to do new things, it would require a
new set of thought processes. God is and has always been
ahead of the times, predicting and perceiving change long
before it happened. That is why He is able to produce new
solutions and answers to the questions of humanity.
FORGET THE FORMER THINGS; DO NOT DWELL
ON THE PAST. See, I AM DOING A NEW THING!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am
making a way in the desert and streams in the
wasteland.
Isa 43:18-19 NIV
Many centuries after the Israelites came out of
captivity, God still speaks through Isaiah the prophet on the
need for them to forget the former things and press forward
into new things and new ways of doing things. Right from
the time He took Israel out of Egypt, crossed the red sea,
went through the wilderness, and finally got them into the
land of Canaan, God employed different ways to teach the
children of Israel to be innovative. All through the reign of
Joshua, the Judges, the Kings, the Priests and the Prophets,
God sought diverse ways to get this message across to the
Israelites. Whenever any generation grasped this message
and heeded God’s instruction along innovative lines, the
Israelites were untamable, undefeatable and indefatigable.
However, the moment they began to neglect God’s “beyond
the box” instruction they began to fail again. God always
wants to do new things and create new possibilities. That is
why He always instructed the Israelites to forget the former
things and watch out for something new. The Israelites on
the other hand could not keep up with God’s speed of
innovation. This is because God never dwelt in His past
accomplishments either. By reason of this, the children of
Israel could not comprehend God’s operations. They always
tried to predict God but He always outwitted their
prediction.
According to the World Economic Forum in its Global
Competitiveness Report for 2016, Israel was said to be the
second most innovative country in the world. This report
ranked the competitiveness of 138 countries in the world
based on 12 categories. These categories included
innovation, technological readiness, business
sophistication and higher education. It shows that the
impact of God’s innovative influence on ancient Israel still
speaks in the Sovereign state of Israel even to this day.
When it comes to innovation, Israel according to the report
was found to be second only to Switzerland. Israel was
ahead of nations like Finland, the United States of America
and Germany in the list of top five most innovative
countries in the world4. At the next World Economic Forum
which was held in October 2017, it was also reported that
Israel retained its position among the world’s top three
innovative countries. It was noted that the Jewish state
earned its reputation as a startup nation due to a large
number of inventions and innovations it produced since it
became a sovereign nation in 1948 despite the many
challenges it faces5. That is amazing isn’t it? But from God’s
constant training of Israel, it is clear how this nation seems
to be ahead in research and development. The impact of
Israel in the global front of tech advancement is one that
many wonder at, considering its present challenges. Many
pundits keep getting confused as to how it is that Israel
which was only 70 years old as an independent city state at
this writing has become a force in the world of innovation,
science, military, defense, technology and lots more. Israel
as a nation dazzles the world as a miracle itself. With a
population of about 8.5 million people, surrounded by
enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, it
indeed is a miracle that this nation is a major contributor to
the advancement that is being experienced by the human
race on several fronts. More interesting is the fact that with
no significant amount of natural resources, the state of
Israel produces more start-up companies than several
respected, large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan,
China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Today, the sovereign state of Israel is home to major players
in the high-tech industry as most of the top foreign high-
tech firms have a strong presence and sophisticated
research centers in Israel. In fact, research has it that there
are over 250 Research and Development Centers in Israel
owned by multinational companies like Google, Amazon,
Facebook, General Electric, IBM, Apple, Microsoft,
Dropbox, etc6. In 2012 alone, Israel was said to have 8,337
full-time equivalent researchers per million inhabitants.
This figure shows a great distinction for Israel as against the
United States which accounted for 3,984 per million
habitants7. Israel is known to have one of the world's most
technology savvy populations. As a matter of fact, present
day Israel now displays a knack for creativity and
innovation, an attribute that was built into them over the
millenniums when God had dealings with Israel as His
firstborn. God basically unlocked their creativity over the
centuries and what we see today is only a remnant of what
many previous generations received from their dealings
with God.
Thoughts to Ponder
• Creativity is idea plus production or thinking plus
doing.
• God is the source of 4-D thinking and 4-D creativity.
He is the creative God. Connect to him to be in the
frequency of 4-D solutions to problems in the 3-D
world.
• To be a 4-D thinker you must forget the past
achievements you have made and do something new
or perform a new feat.
CHAPTER THREE
THE PRINCIPLE OF
REINVENTION
If you would explore your potential to the fullest and
fulfil your 4-D destiny, reinvention is a non-negotiable
necessity.
Author, Creativity Expert.
Reinvention is the life blood of business and
professionalism. Kingdom creativity pushes you into a
constant consistent habit of outdoing your past successes.
As Dr. Myles Munroe always said, “the enemy of your next
accomplishment is your last success”. How true! If you, your
business or profession would experience the best of what it
can be, then reinvention is a requirement. Most of the
world's many profitable brands and establishments have
achieved their long track record of enduring success by
constantly reinventing themselves. These companies have
emerged and are able to sustain their progress because they
always improved and modified their systems. They were
quick to allow their products, services, product lines and
even business strategies evolve on a most regular basis. This
caused them to stay one step ahead of their customers'
needs. They literally underwent metamorphosis, a constant
change of state and improvement. This enabled them to get
to the state of splendor and resplendence that we see today.
It would amaze you to know that the oil giant Shell
Company that we all know about today, started as a
business for the import and sales of actual sea shells. What
is known as Shell Global Company today, that has now
become a great and influential player in the oil and energy
industry today, actually started in a little shop ran by
Marcus Samuel centuries ago. In 1833, he decided to
expand his business so he added oriental shells to the
antiques which he sold. He did this in order to meet up with
a growing fashion demand that involved using these shells
for interior design. In order to meet the need created by this
growing demand, Samuel swiftly began importing shells
from the Far East. Little did he know that he was laying the
foundation for an import-export business that would
eventually metamorphose into one of the world's leading
energy companies1. This came as a result of reinvention.
Even God has designed every kingdom citizen to operate
with the principle of reinvention. He wants us to keep
changing our state of existence by consistent and constant
transformation. He gave us the greatest key to constant and
consistent success. He told us that as long as we commit to
daily, weekly, monthly and yearly change, transformation
and transfiguration, we position ourselves for timeless
success. No wonder Paul the Apostle spoke about this
principle in his second epistles to the Corinthian church.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are CHANGED into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of
the Lord.
2 Cor 3:18
The word “changed” in the above verse comes from the
Greek word “metamorphoo”. It means to be transformed, to
be transfigured or to be changed into a completely different
form, function, condition, appearance, quality or state. One
of the best ways to illustrate this concept is to study the
English word metamorphosis, which was derived from the
Greek word “metamorphoo”. When the butterfly undergoes
metamorphosis, there is a marked difference it exhibits at
each stage of its life cycle. The butterfly experiences
transformation in its structure and morphology in such a
manner that it gets better adapted for its living. When the
beautiful, successful, adorable butterfly begins its journey,
it does not begin functioning at its full potential. It takes
series of transformation and reinvention before the
butterfly finally emerges as the glorious entity that adds
color and beauty to the fields. The butterfly begins its life as
an egg, from which it transfigures to becoming a larva or
what is known as the caterpillar. At the larval stage the
butterfly is not yet exuding its inherent capacity to the
fullest. It has in it the ability to fly, but must reinvent itself
through a progressive change of state to express its full
potential. As long as it remains a caterpillar, the butterfly
never flies; but rather it struggles to climb on plants by a
slow locomotive motion. And chews the leaves of a
particular kind of crops until it experiences another
transfiguration, a phenomenon I consider as reinvention
based on the context of this writing. After the larval stage,
the butterfly changes its state to become a pupa. By this
time, it is beginning to develop new features, functions and
new organs to give it more competence for flight. Enclosed
wings are being formed and antennae are developed while
it is a pupa in preparation for adulthood but the butterfly is
still immobile and sometimes defenseless. When the
butterfly finally emerges as an adult, it functions differently
from the egg, larva or pupa. It now sucks the nectar of
flowers for food meanwhile in the larval state; it chewed the
leaves of specific plants. At the butterfly state, it looks and
functions differently because it has undergone the painful
processes of reinvention through metamorphosis. This is an
example of how God designed us to continually reinvent
ourselves, whether as a student, professional or
businessman, etc. He wants you to keep beholding His
mirror which gives you greater visions of what more you can
be and do. The more you focus on that mirror, the less you
would be satisfied by what you achieved. Dr. Myles Munroe
has always said that your potential is what you can be that
you have not yet fully become or what you could do that you
have not yet done. Potential is not measured by what you
have accomplished but by what you could yet accomplish if
you placed more demands on your God given abilities. That
is why Paul the Apostle instructs us to keep looking into the
mirror of God for better visions of what our businesses,
talents, professions, careers, and academic contributions
can be.
And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we]
continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are CONSTANTLY
BEING TRANSFIGURED INTO HIS VERY OWN
IMAGE IN EVER INCREASING SPLENDOR and
from one degree of glory to another; [for this
comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.
2 Cor 3:18 AMP
There is a difference between the natural mirror we see
and use in the world today and what Paul refers to as the
mirror of God. The mirror of man only shows him what he
looks like and does not show him what he can be. However,
the mirror of God is different; it shifts man’s thinking from
the immediate to the future. It makes man to stop
celebrating his past glory and makes him to reinvent
himself by metamorphosis for the greater glory ahead.
Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist and poet said
something very profound. He said, ‘‘Wherever we are, it is
but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we
do, however well we do it is only a preparation to do
something else that shall be different.’’ This statement fully
expresses the urgent necessity for reinvention. Many
business organizations and even nations have been flushed
out of the global market due to a complacent approach
toward reinvention and re-creation. A lot of businesses have
died natural deaths because even though it was making
impact in a particular market, it did not know when to
rediscover new markets and re-create new products and
services. Nokia and Blackberry have learned these lessons
the hard way. The Nokia Company was previously the
darling of modern technology until the advent of Blackberry
Smartphones. Blackberry Smartphones did so well in the
market that they controlled more than 50% of the market
share in their heyday. After Nokia experienced tremendous
success, Blackberry came on the scene with something
unique that took Nokia by storm. However, because these
two companies were too slow to reinvent their products, the
Apple Company took advantage of their complacency and
invented the iPhones in 2007. Before long both Nokia and
Blackberry were out of business. The same company that
pioneered the mobile phone industry and produced phones
that became a must-have became almost lost in the
forgotten past and sold out to Microsoft as a result. Nokia’s
hesitance to adjust its products and services to the drastic
change which the customers required was one factor that
led to the devaluation of this mobile giant. The company
took way too long to embrace the Smartphone revolution
until Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world in 2007.
Nokia remained complacent even after the release of the
iPhone until it noticed a heavy drop in its sales and market
share after several years. What a tragedy! Some of the
world's most profitable and enduring companies have
achieved their long track record of success by constant
reinvention. To reinvent means to take actions that bring
about a change in someone or something (product, service,
organization, nation, etc.) in such a manner that it results
in an entirely new and better appearance or outcome.
According to an article by Dave Roos, titled “10
Companies that Completely Reinvented themselves”, IBM
would have died a natural death if it did not step up to the
demands of reinvention many years ago. By reason of the
invention of the Personal Computers, IBM had literally
become the master of the computing world in 1984. IBM’s
success was traceable to the fact that it did not try to do
everything itself. IBM bought hardware components from
smaller manufacturers, assembled them and shipped its
PCs with Microsoft Windows already installed in them. This
was unlike Apple, which wrote every of its software from
scratch to finish and built every piece of hardware for its
computers. Sadly, and interestingly, due to a lack of
innovation, the very strategy that crowned IBM as king of
the computing world, almost led to its death. This was
because before long, some other upcoming companies
cloned IBM’s PCs. These small companies swarmed into the
market with cheaper products, each running on the same
type of Windows operating system. Slowly but steadily, IBM
began to lose its market share as quick-thinking
competitors had succeeded in undercutting its prices. As a
result of this, IBM recorded a loss of $8 billion in 1993
alone. This was the biggest loss in the history of corporate
America at that time. The company, which had pioneered
some of the greatest technological revolutions by
developing the mainframe computers and IBM personal
computers, was in a fix. It was forced to choose between two
unfamiliar options which were to either reinvent itself or die
a natural death. Good enough, IBM braved up and
abandoned the core of its business model. It shifted from
developing and selling low-margin personal computers,
computer chips, printers and other hardware into supplying
computing services and IT expertise to businesses. It
invested massively in its server business and in the year
2013, became the number one in the sales of enterprise
server solutions globally. Today, the evolution of IBM is
used in business schools as a case study and as a perfect
example for corporate reinvention in the information age2.
A lot of professionals soon become irrelevant in their
organizations or industries because they did not increase
and develop their capacity through reinvention after they
got employed. The same could be said for those
professionals who are self-employed. They keep applying
the same approach, method and expertise year in year out
without a marked improvement in the way they carry out
their chosen profession. Yet they never take out time to
access, review and analyze their results with respect to the
efforts they put into what they do. This kind of life according
to Socrates, is an unexamined life. Socrates, a famous
philosopher is known for so many profound quotes. One of
his quotes says “an unexamined life is not worth living”.
When a professional or a businessman refuses or neglects
the place of constant improvement, revision and rebranding
of himself or his business, he is living an unexamined life
and that kind of an individual most times never reaches his
full potential. Such a person remains stagnant and
retrogressive for years but sees no problem with what he is
doing neither is he dissatisfied with the kind of results he is
getting. They have become like the cicada which never
completes its metamorphosis. The cicada is an insect that
spends 17 years as a nymph, and does not go through the
pupa stage before becoming an adult. It spends 17 years as
a nymph underneath the ground when it has the capacity to
fly above the earth. It possesses in itself great potential for
flight but remains grounded 99% of its life cycle because it
does not undergo complete metamorphosis. When it
becomes an adult, it only survives for at most four weeks
before it either dies or is predated upon other creatures.
This is exactly how some professionals live their lives
because of a lack of reinvention. They spend the most part
of their lives living below their full potential when they have
what it takes to soar like an eagle in their chosen careers.
They remain grounded for life because personal
transformation is a painful and uncomfortable process
which they do not want to experience. They think that they
are doing well as long as they are getting by with their past
knowledge, skill, and exposure. These are the people who
become redundant and unproductive in an organization
especially in a world that is fast evolving.
I cringe when I see professionals who work in the
private sector or in government parastatals get into the
system and work for 35 years of service and afterwards
retire into abject poverty. They become impoverished and
begin to murmur when they discover that their pension
alone cannot cater for their needs and the needs of their
family. The problem worsens if they have not reinvented
themselves to be better off than they were when they first
joined the civil service. Most of them lived like the cicada,
in one state of existence for the most productive years of
their lives. They acquired no new skill, learned no new trade
and developed no new talent apart from sitting behind a
mahogany desk and performing a routine task for several
years. Their lives lacked the sauce of kingdom creativity
because they felt as long as there was a monthly paycheck,
everything was under control. They forgot that one day they
would become too old to do the same things they did with
ease a few years ago. They forgot that one day they would
either be retired or fired and hence would stop receiving
that same salary. For some they would be left to survive with
a meager pension and gratuity while for others they would
be sacked with no benefits. That is why most times, when
some folks get their gratuity, they lose it almost
immediately because they never learned other things like
how to trade and invest discreetly. They fall victims to bad
investments, get-rich-quick schemes, or reckless spending
and lose in a hurry, everything they worked so hard to earn
in a lifetime. One outstanding reason why reinvention is a
non-negotiable necessity for a student is that a change in
technology or market preferences by consumers can render
what one has studied in a formal institution almost
irrelevant to the fast-changing society we live in. An
economic shift can make a particular skill obsolete almost
overnight. Someone who is gainfully employed with a
wonderful “nine to five job” could find himself or herself out
of work on Monday because of a rapid change in the
marketplace, the company, or decline in the demand for his
or her work.
Brian Tracy is another professional who reinvented
himself. Today, he is an international speaker who
generates a six-figure income or more from speaking. As at
2017, he had spoken professionally in 75 countries. At the
time of this writing, he was said to have started, built,
managed, or turned around 22 different businesses. He is
said to have worked with more than 500 corporations, given
more than 5,000 talks, and addressed over 5,000,000
people in his professional speaking career. He addresses
more than 250,000 people each year throughout the United
States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The interesting
aspect of this man’s story is that he had very humble
beginnings but by constantly reinventing himself, he has
experienced a high level of productivity. When he was 21
years old, he worked as a construction laborer, getting up at
5:00 a.m. in the middle of a cold winter and taking three
buses to work all day carrying building materials from place
to place. One day while sitting in his room, he realized that
God had given him all he needed to make his life better. He
discovered that it was now up to him and absolutely no one
else to become the best of what he was designed to be.
Immediately he discovered this, he decided to put his past
behind him and to reinvent himself for the first time. He
looked far into the future as much as he could and asked,
‘‘what do I really want to do with my life?’’ he discovered he
needed a better job. He therefore went into a bookstore on
his lunch break from his construction job and bought books
on a variety of subjects that he felt would be helpful to him.
He spent hours each night reading and underlining the
books. The more he learned, the more his confidence grew
and before long, he began to write letters to companies
applying for white-collar jobs. For a long time, he got no
responses, but eventually someone hired him in direct sales
of office products. That was his start! Over the years, he has
reinvented himself in different jobs and in different
industries, moving up through sales into sales management
and eventually becoming the vice president of an
international company with the responsibility of developing
six countries. Later, he got a real estate license and
reinvented himself into a real estate developer, reading
books, finding financial partners, and ultimately developing
more than 100 million dollars of real estate over the years.
He went further ahead to reinvent himself into an importer
and a distributor, bringing in a complete line of Japanese
cars and setting up 65 dealerships to sell tens of millions of
dollars’ worth of automobiles. At each stage of reinvention,
he would sit down and reevaluate his life. Once he noticed a
need to make a new turn, he would make a decision about
his next step or next career. Then he would get books and
articles that would develop his knowledge of that field,
interview people and ask questions about that career path.
He always explored the business industry as much as he
could and then plunge in as soon as he could. From his
many experiences, he has learned that reinvention is not a
rosy, straight lined path. He discovered that there were
numerous setbacks, difficulties, and even temporary
failures on the path to personal progress and
transformation10. That is why it is important to know when
it is time to reinvent yourself. The moment you get that
signal for reinvention, pray for direction, get a good idea of
where you are to go and take action. Keep trying, never give
up and keep pressing forward until the new you surface. You
may not have been to school, nor have a university degree,
do not let that stop you from reaching your full potential.
You can unlock your kingdom creativity and when that
happens, you would become respected and appreciated by
even veterans in the academic world. The moment you tap
into your innate creative capacity, you would be amazed at
the kind of value you would release. You would not only
solve your personal problems by this, but also that of your
organization and your nation at large.
Thoughts to Ponder
• Take out time to access, review and analyze your

results with respect to the efforts you put into what
you do and look out for signals of reinvention.
• Do not allow your business die a natural death due to

complacency and unwillingness to embrace change.
CHAPTER FOUR
REQUIREMENTS FOR
EFFECTIVE REINVENTION
Every government owes it to itself, its citizens and the
nation at large to engage in consistent reinvention in a
positive and constructive manner.
International Best-Selling Author.
There are a couple of things that should remain
consistent as reinvention and transformation becomes
necessary at different levels and phases of an individual or
of a corporate organization. These are foundational and
cardinal ingredients that should define the core of any
individual, corporate or national pursuit. Without these
core aspects remaining intact, any individual or corporate
pursuit for reinvention would lead to confusion. These
cornerstones are the intricate details that keep an individual
focused on his overall vision despite the fact that he is
reinventing himself. They are the platforms upon which
organizations should build their castles and skyscrapers in
order not to be swayed in the wrong direction by the tides
of change and development. Nations would lose their
identity in the process of reinvention if these factors are not
in place. They are:
1. Individual, Corporate or National Purpose
Purpose is a very foundational aspect of every
establishment. It is the bedrock upon which every
sustainable accomplishment is built. Purpose determines
priority for an individual, a corporation and even a nation.
When the awareness and understanding of purpose is
lacking, there is not much that can be done in the path of
progress because such an entity
(Individual, corporation or nation) would grope in the
dark corridors of confusion. Awareness of purpose is
important for reinvention and sustainable development to
take place in any entity. This is because when purpose is not
captured in the whole reinvention process, it could result in
abuse of the very fundamentals upon which the entity
stands. For example, a man who does not have a true
understanding of the essence behind his masculinity could
transform himself into a transgender woman in the name of
reinvention. A church that loses sight of its actual
foundational purpose could end up closing the doors of its
halls to worshippers and opening it up to be used as a pub,
social center or commercial event center in the name of
reinvention. A professional who lacks understanding of
purpose could become a fraudster because his career is no
longer a lucrative one or because his industry has gone into
extinction and he needs some “reinvention”. In a nutshell,
an individual, corporation or nation that loses track of the
actual reason and essence for its origin, incorporation or
establishment could become a victim of identity crises in the
marketplace because purpose defines identity. The more
purposeful a man is, the more productive he becomes
because he prioritizes things that drive him toward purpose
and easily avoids distractions. In the same vein, the more
purpose driven an organization or business outfit is, the
more productive it becomes, and the more business
opportunities and profits it attracts. During a time of
financial crises, many professionals and business men get
into the frenzy that comes with the crises. They begin to
pursue profit without productivity, productivity without
priority, and priority without purpose. This is the reason
why many companies either go bankrupt or are forced out
of business during such times. The approach that should be
engaged at such times should be for purpose to be reviewed
and revisited during such stormy times. A revisit of purpose
with respect to the crisis of the moment informs what such
individuals or corporate businesses should prioritize in
order to continue achieve the ultimate purpose despite the
economic crisis. When purpose is well known and well
understood, reinvention can really be a productive
endeavor. But when the priority of purpose is lacking, any
attempt towards reinvention would be a destructive
attempt. When individual, corporate or national purpose as
the case may be, is in view, then reinvention becomes a
purposeful endeavor. It becomes something that is geared
towards a certain kind of result which ultimately aligns and
resonates with the fundamental purpose of the individual,
organization or nation.
2. Individual, Corporate or National Vision
Vision is a clear picture of the desired and expected
future that you have of yourself, company or nation and it
forms the basis for every pursuit of every individual,
corporation and state. Any company where there are no
properly laid out visions has no guarantee of survival when
the perishing storm of change arrives. The thing about
change that many CEOs do not realize is that you cannot
avoid it or fight it. You can only make change work in your
favor and fight for you. And if you fail to make change fight
for you by being able to respond positively to change, it
would fight against you. When the tides of change flow in
your direction, it is the visions that you have of the future of
your business, profession or nation that keeps you anchored
in the direction of progress rather than regress. Your vision
is to your corporation, what a compass is to the ship. Just as
the compass gives the ship captain a sense of direction in
the midst of the storms in the middle of nowhere, so does
vision give an individual, corporation or nation a sense of
direction in the face of crises. It is vision that guarantees
that one’s destination is reached. Without vision in place,
life would be reduced into a merry go round and we would
continually engage in activity without productivity. When
you know exactly where you are going, even when there is
an obstacle that seems to constrain a change of travel path,
getting to the predetermined destination is still guaranteed.
When the unexpected call for change comes, it would not
distract the individual or corporation from its awareness of
where it intends to go. It would only lead to engaging a
different course toward the envisioned destination. For
example, after a ship captain charts the course to a
predetermined destination, he also plots all the possible
paths through which that destination that was envisioned
can be reached. In the event that there is a storm on the way
as they voyage on a particular course, another path can be
navigated and the same destination would be reached. The
reason why the destination can still be reached despite the
obstacles, storms or tides of change is because before the
journey began, the ship navigator had a vision of here he
was going. Therefore, for reinvention to be productive and
not destructive, the visions of the individual, corporation
and nation must be well built into the subconscious of each
one who makes up these different entities.
Every nation must have a vision that has become
common knowledge among its citizenry and even among
other sovereign nations. When there is no vision in place,
the people would become unproductive and this would
ultimately sink that nation. The onus therefore rests on
every national and political leader to always be driven by
national vision and not personal ambition. Nigeria is faced
with its current problems on many different fronts because
her leaders lack a national vision for the country. That is
why the nation suffers heavily from divisions on many
different fronts. This is because nature abhors vacuum,
hence where there is no vision, division carries the day. This
is a nation with many different ethnic groups, religious
groups, and political groups that are internally divided for
lack of a common vision. This lack of vision is what breeds
sectionalism, favoritism and nepotism in a society.
3. Individual, Corporate or National Core
Values
Your personal core values are among the fundamental
decisions that can help you navigate your path towards
personal transformation and reinvention. This would go a
long way to shape how you live your life and how you
respond to change. For example, a person who has no solid
core values would bow to the pressure of compromise when
the tide of change comes. There are individuals and
companies that begin to engage in corrupt practices because
the wind of change seems to have affected their industry.
Truth be told, no excuse can justify corruption in any sphere
of life. That is why one must have deep-seated, deeply
rooted and sound core values that are in alignment with a
person’s ultimate purpose, vision and beliefs. As a person,
you are a reflection of the fundamental choices you make.
Core values provide the goals and criteria that should
influence all personal decisions as a professional, student or
businessman. When we live by personal values, our
motivations and actions become aligned with our visions
and ultimate purpose. It is said about companies that stray
from their core values that they may not perform as well as
those that adhere to them. The same can also be said about
individuals who do not have any valid core value upon
which they build their personal brand.
Many companies find it difficult to adhere to their core
values. For them it is just a piece of writing inscribed on a
prominent part of the office walls and reception rooms of
the company. For some other companies, their core values
represent for them a lofty set of values which are merely
outlined on the company website. The core values are
clearly spelt out but play little or no role in the company’s
mode of operations. The truth however is that every
company, big or small, must have core values not just for
the sake of having it but for it to shape the ethos and culture
of every aspect of the company from top to bottom. Core
values are the basis upon which every member of a company
makes decisions, plan strategies, and relate both with each
other and with their customers. A customer is any person or
organization that is impacted in some way by you as a
professional or businessman or by the company you own or
belong to. Core values reflect what is regarded as important
by every organization and to every one of its members. It
also defines the identity of an individual or corporation.
The leaders and front liners of a company are
responsible for identifying the core values of the company
and projecting it into every aspect of the company
operations and its members. Core values work the same way
for a company as they do for an individual. For example, an
individual may value diligence at work and prudence in
saving money, while another individual value traveling and
exploring new places. These differences would make a huge
difference between these two individuals in how they plan,
strategize and make decisions. Even if they both start out
with the same resources, each individual would make totally
different decisions and devise strategies that are peculiar to
their core values. Individual, corporate or national core
values affect strategy and how revenue generated is saved
or spent.
Every developed nation has some core values
considered critical to its development. These core values are
built into the kind of policies that are promoted in the
governance of that state at all levels. If you study nations
that have produced a lot of innovation and patented
discoveries, you would notice that the culture of research
and industry is built into the system. The body language of
the leaders toward innovation and research is a reflection
on the national core values of that country. There are a lot
of nations that are yet under developed because the
leadership of such nations celebrates pop stars who deface
the moral value of its citizenry through their immoral habits
as displayed in irresponsible music. This is appalling
especially when there are no structures on ground to
celebrate the novelty and industry that comes through
education and research in such nations. When the winner
of a reality show, known for promoting illicit and immoral
sexual behaviors, is awarded millions of naira or dollars and
the best graduating student of an entire university is not
even recognized by the state, then something is wrong with
the core values in that nation. This can send a wrong
message to the industrious, studious and intelligent class of
citizens and render them passive towards reinvention.
4. Individual, Corporate or National Integrity
A lot of people do not know the importance of integrity
and the role it plays in an individual, organization or a
nation. The word integrity is akin to the word “integrated”.
It means to be in oneness with purpose. It means to be
wholesome and unimpaired. Never sacrifice your integrity
on the altar of change. Many people want to achieve great
results on the foundation of compromise. Little did they
know that any feat that is attained by compromise would
have to be sustained through same. Therefore, reinvention
must be driven by an integrated value system that cannot be
bent to favor inconsistent character or dishonest practices.
This is what many scientists who begin to develop crazy
theories that question the creativity of the Almighty Creator
lack. That is why they go ahead to make destructive
assumptions and theories that seem to permit the ordinary
man to become vile in his thoughts and actions. There are
many companies and businesses that manufacture and
create products and services which they know are
destructive to people. They used to be known for integrity
but lost their integrity because they have integrated many
dubious and devious schemes into their businesses all in the
bid to make more money as they respond to the changing
times. As you pursue after individual, corporate or national
reinvention, you must maintain integrity as a constant
because that is the only way to maintain a solid value system
and corporate culture.
5. Individual, Corporate or National Drive for
Selfless Service
The quest for constant transformation, improvement
and reinvention must be driven by the personal or corporate
goal of satisfying your old and new customers. This means
that you must not produce or reinvent products simply
because you can. Instead, you should work to develop
products and services that offer high value to customers and
that reflects commitment to rendering customer centered
services.
The basic drive for Amazon’s exceptional customer
centered services is founded on its founder’s drive and
philosophy towards customer satisfaction. Jeff Bezos’s
business philosophy is to focus on long-term customer
loyalty over short-term profits and to stimulate a never-
ending expansion into new businesses. This philosophy has
surprisingly remained consistent over the years despite the
different economic tides and storms that have hit Amazon.
Every national leader who wants to drive his nation in
the path of reinvention must be sure it is not for personal
gain and self-enrichment. Many political leaders and
national take initiatives and develop policies that are not in
the best interest of the people who he was elected or
appointed to serve. There are only a few leaders in the world
today who like Nelson Mandela, would sacrifice his life for
his country’s betterment. He was offered wealth for him to
drop his cause but he prioritized the people’s needs over any
selfish interest. He would rather go to jail than enrich
himself while watching his people suffer under the force of
the apartheid. Even after he came out of prison and became
president, he chose to step down after his first tenure,
against the wish of people because of his philosophy of
selfless service.
The Pain of Reinvention
The eagle is a very special and unique bird from which
we can learn a lot. The eagle did not emerge as the king of
all birds by coincidence. It possesses many remarkable
qualities that distinguish it from several other birds. The
eagles fly alone and they do so at high altitudes. They don't
compete with other birds; they do not fly with sparrows,
ravens, and other small birds. They know that they belong
to a class of their own. That is why the idiomatic expression
that says “birds of a feather flock together” does not apply
to eagles. This is so because even if the eagle could fly with
other eagles, they do not fly in a flock. They always fly alone,
at high altitudes. When other birds hide from the storm, the
eagle soars with the wind of the storm. The eagle is such a
powerful bird that has very sharp eyesight. The vision of an
eagle is sharper than that of a human. While the human only
sees within a 180-degree visual field, the eye of the eagle
gives it a 340-degree field of vision. The eagle vision is five
to eight times sharper than that of the human’s perfect
vision. What a human sees clearly at four to five feet, an
eagle can see with the same crystal clearness twenty feet
away. These and many other qualities make the eagle an
expert hunter and an outstanding bird.
One thing that strikes me about the eagle is how they
are able to renew their strength. The lifespan of an eagle is
about 40 years but the eagle normally extends its lifespan
by 30 years through rejuvenation, a principle similar to
reinvention. When the eagle grows old, his feathers become
weak and cannot take him as fast and as high as it normally
would. This makes him weak and could make him die. In its
forties, the eagle’s long and flexible talons can no longer
grab preys which should serve as its food. When such an
eagle gets to this point, it has to make a very hard and
crucial decision. It has to choose whether to die or to go
through a painful and excruciating process. If it wants to
live for another 30 years, it then flies to a very high
mountain top. After it retreats to a place far away in the
mountains, it undergoes a painful process of rejuvenation.
While there, it plucks out the weak feathers on his body
which have become too thick for it to fly swiftly. It knocks
its beaks and claws against the rock until it breaks. After
pulling off its old feathers, breaking its beaks and claws
against the rocks, it becomes completely bare. This indeed
is a very bloody and painful process for the eagle but it
accepts to go through the pain nonetheless because it does
not want to come to the end of its life yet. The eagle knows
that if it would remain at the peak of its game, it needs to
renew its strength. So, he stays in this hiding place until it
has grown new feathers, new beaks and claws and then it
comes out flying higher than before. This is another perfect
description of what reinvention is all about. Although some
scientists have argued that this story is a myth while others
maintained that it is a fact, it is worth learning a lesson
from. One of such lessons is that change is a painful process
that we must not only expect but sometimes initiate if we
want to remain relevant in any of life’s endeavor. We
occasionally need to shed off old methods, ways and
patterns of doing things no matter how difficult it may be.
As we grow, we must be able to analyze our lives. What are
the things you are doing now that needs to be improved and
what are the sacrifices that needs to be made for that
improvement to take place? The things that add no value to
our lives should be discarded without emotional

attachment. Do not get married to your past successes if you
care to woo a future of greater successes unto yourself.

Thoughts to Ponder
• You must cultivate the habit of renewing strength
and reinforcing your competence if you would stay
on top of your game as an entrepreneur or
professional.
• Personal and corporate vision is your anchor and
protection against the storms of distraction.

CHAPTER FIVE
PEAK PERFORMANCE
CREATIVITY
Peak performance refers to the maximum value that
can be achieved or attained by an individual within a given
period of time. A lot of people are performing way below
their capacity. They are like the man who has a power bike
but only used the power bike to outrun bicycles when they
ought to compete with fast cars and even outrun them. It
reminds me of the mythological story of an eagle that was
born in the nest of a hen and grew up among chickens. The
eagle grew up with chickens and died thinking it was a
“great chicken” not knowing that it was born to soar above
the highest mountains. Many people painfully have a
similar story. They were born as eagles but instead of being
high fliers, they end up competing with chickens and are
satisfied with little results. Peak performance is a great

necessity for any student, graduate or businessperson that
desires to release his or her full potential. It is relevant for
maximum achievement and can be applied to anyone and
to any area or endeavor of life. When you begin to perform
at peak performance creativity, you begin to harness fully,
the potential of your mind as a kingdom citizen.
The creative power of a kingdom citizen’s mind is so
limitless that no matter how much you have achieved, you
can always do more, achieve more and make more impact.
The performance of your mind is heavily connected to how
effectively you allow kingdom creativity to dominate your
thought processes. Imagine driving a car with manual gear
transmission which has a capacity to run at 180 miles per
hour. If you never engage the gear system from one to two
and you choose to run a journey of 200 miles on only the
first gear, what would happen? You may knock down that
engine because it was designed to work efficiently and
maximally when all its gears are engaged from first to fifth.
On the other hand, when you begin to engage all the gears

from one, two, and three until you get to the fifth or to the
highest gear, you would discover that it becomes easier for
the vehicle to move and to reach your destination faster.
That is because the vehicle begins to run on full throttle
when the gears have been adequately engaged to maximum
capacity.
How to Achieve Peak Performance Creativity,
Productivity and Profitability
Most great achievers in the academic, professional or
business world have something in common. They always
want more because they are never satisfied with their status
quo. They always push themselves toward peak
performance and maximum creativity. There are several
ways to boost performance, scale up productivity and
increase profitability as a student, professional or a
businessman. Below are a few:
• Define your major goal:

Your major goal represents the kind of result you want
to get in the future in any area of pursuit in which you find
yourself whether as a student, professional or
businessperson. To define your major goal goes beyond just
having a wishful desire to become something wonderful in
future. Before even setting a goal, you must have a clear
vision of what you want and this must be in alignment with
your purpose. Your purpose is the reason why you exist and
what your existence would contribute to mankind while
your vision is a definite picture of where you are going.
When purpose and vision are in perspective, your major
goal becomes the kind of result you want to get as you move
in the direction of purpose and vision accomplishment. For
example, the purpose of a man could be to affect the
finances of individuals and nations positively. His vision
could be a picture of becoming a professional banker who
would add immense value to the banking sector of his
country and emerge as one of the leading players in that
industry. To achieve this wonderful vision, he needs to

define his major goal. This could be a goal of becoming the
Regional manager of XYZ bank in 5 years.
• Discover the one thing you must do today to
achieve your major goal and accomplish
your vision:
If you have a vision to become a major distributor of a
farm produce like mangoes, you need to have a major goal.
The major goal may be to harvest twenty baskets of mango
fruits. After setting such goal, you must begin to take that
one step every day, week, month and year that would lead
to the achievement of the major goal and ultimately to the
fulfillment of vision.
That means the one thing the farmer may need to do is
get a land that is arable for planting. After that step, the next
step that should be taken is to weed the plot. Next thing to
do is to plant viable seeds and on and on, one step after the
other. At the end of the whole process, you would discover
that more than one step was actually required to reach the
goal. And that is where the beauty of doing one thing every

day that leads you to your destiny begins to make more
sense.
The best way to get maximum results and productivity
is to find out the one thing you must do every day starting
from today, in order to propel your life toward the direction
of your major life goal. As you do this, keeping purpose and
vision in focus, you become definite and precise in your
approach to life. Take the little steps if you must or
take giant strides if you can but by all means begin
to make moves toward that goal and vision. The
saying, “take one step at a time” can be a great guide as you
begin to boost your performance. The most important thing
to note in a bid to increase your productivity is to know that
you must take one step every day to get closer to your
destiny or destination. Do not preoccupy yourself with the
burden of trying to too many things all at once. That is the
tendency when you become too anxious for instant results.
There are no such things as overnight successes. Every
genuine success came as a result of tiny dedication and

determination to follow through with the law of process.
Have you ever tried to move a car from the first gear to the
fifth without engaging the second, third and fourth one after
the other? So, follow through with the process and do not
forget that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one
step.
• Do not get Complacent with previous
achievements:
I remember when I wrote my first book and got it
published. It took me twelve months to write, publish and
launch that book and it was indeed a great success at that
level. Despite the wonderful achievement, I was dissatisfied
because I had a vision to write many books in a lifetime and
I knew that I would not be able to accomplish that by writing
and publishing one book per year. What did I do? I
sharpened my writing speed and skill. I then set a new goal
for the next year to write and traditionally self-publish four
books in that year. In six-months I was able to write, publish

and launch three out of the four books I proposed to write.
That feat was one of the most astounding things I
accomplished that year and I did it in six months. The first
manuscript out of those three books took me three months
to develop. The second book took me two months to
complete while the third book I published that year was
done in just thirty days. This was definitely an amazing
experience for me because my very first book the previous
year took me twelve months to write. Mind you the first
book which took me a whole year was one hundred and
sixteen pages. While the three books that followed the next
year with an overwhelming six months work contained five
hundred and ninety-eight pages altogether. So, I was able to
boost my performance from writing, self-publishing and
launching a book of one hundred and sixteen pages in one
year, to producing three books containing five hundred and
ninety-eight pages in six months. What shocked me most
was how that in one month I was able to write the fourth
book with same number of pages that took me three months
when I was writing the second book. If you do the

mathematics correctly, you would discover that I achieved
ten times the result of one year in six months because I was
dissatisfied with my previous accomplishment which was a
great one for that season. You may never write a book, you
may not be an author or a global speaker like me; however,
if you read between the lines, you would get a hold of some
principles that can be adapted into your line of expertise.
Never get comfortable with your past successes because
they could hinder your future accomplishments and limit
your ultimate potential. Collate your achievements in your
most important activity and multiply your results by ten.
That is what can happen to you when you achieve peak
performance creativity. Creative peak performance is what
results when you unlock your kingdom creativity. Can you
imagine that my performance received ten times boost in
that area within six months? I cannot begin to explain how
that changed my whole life but just imagine you could
achieve ten times what you achieved within the last twelve
months in the next six months of your life. Calculate what
you earned last year and multiply it by twelve. What would

it be like if you could increase your finances by six times in
the next six months? I increased my profitability at a rate
twelve times more than it was just a year before. That is
what results when you reinvent yourself toward peak
performance creativity and productivity both as a
professional and businessperson. When this is attained, it
causes a scale up in your profitability. There is never an end
to peak performance productivity and profitability no
matter how much you earn already because you can always
earn more. It is a function of your mind, how much more
you think you can perform and what more results you think
you can achieve. That is why the Bible says that as a man
thinks in his heart, so is he.
Mind you there were some principles that helped me
achieve this. First, I defined and redefined my major goal
with respect to my purpose, vision and previous
achievement. I decided to think beyond the box of writing
one book in a year which was okay for the past phase I was.
The next thing that followed was that I narrowed my major

goal of writing four books in a year into the present moment
reality. I asked myself, what one thing can I do now and
every other day in order to reach the major goal of writing 4
books? I discovered that if I wrote at least 2,000 words
every day, I would have written 60,000 words in one month
and that would give me one book. It took me three months
however to achieve that goal of 60,000 words on the first
book I had on my goals list. I encouraged myself because it
was a milestone worth celebrating, but I pushed myself
further and placed more demand on the wisdom of God
resident in me. As a result, the next book I wrote was
completed in 2 months. I celebrated that feat and took a
little break and then began almost immediately to work on
the third book in a row and amazingly I was now operating
at peak performance. It was as though I was running full
throttle and on the fifth gear where my mind was moving so
fast and my hands were as though it had become
synchronized with my mind. As the thoughts poured into
my mind my hands would register it almost immediately.
Before I knew it, I had begun to write 3,000 words on some

days and 4,000 words on other days. Every cell, tissue,
organ and muscle in my body became aligned with
achieving that goal and like I said I was running full throttle
at this point. In one month, I was done with the manuscript
for the third book. That was one very practical experience I
had which really expressed to me in a unique way the
difference between performing at the average level or below
average level and performing at your very maximum
capacity. The amazing thing is that those three books are
making serious waves and touching lives immensely all over
the world in ways I cannot imagine. What if I had allowed
myself to be boxed in with the fact that I had neither
publisher to publish nor money to self-publish the books
when I conceived the idea of writing three books in such a
short space of time? I would probably have reduced my
performance rate and placed a restriction on my capacity to
do more than what I had accomplished the previous year. I
was able to boost my performance and scale up my
productivity and that gave me a greater financial reward
that was five times the reward I received from the previous

year when I could churn out only one book. You may not be
a writer but this personal story and experience of mine can
be adapted to you. You can actually scale up your profits if
you would decide to boost your performance and scale up
your productivity.
• Be different or be forgotten
In 1997 when Steve Jobs came back to Apple Company,
the business outfit had 350 products to its name. However,
Steve Jobs was able to skyrocket the company’s
performance, productivity and profitability in one year by
focusing on improving just 10 out of the 350 products that
Apple was already known for. He diverted attention from
the other 340 products and channeled all the company’s
focus on only 10 products. No wonder Tim Cook, the CEO
who took over the company after Steve Job’s demise once
said something that further buttresses the power of
thinking different and being different. His statement goes
thus, “a traditional management philosophy taught in
business schools is to reduce risk by diversifying your

product offerings. Apple represents the anti–business
school philosophy. Apple’s approach is to put its resources
behind a few products and commit to making those
products exceptionally well”. 1 This is one of the ways they
were able to break out of the box of traditional business
strategy. It is amazing to see that 10 products out of 350
products represent approximately 3 percent of all Apple’s
products at that time. This supports the principle that was
named after an Italian philosopher known as Vilfredo
Pareto called the Pareto’s principle. According to Richard
Koch in his book titled, “80/20 principle”, this
phenomenon when studied more narrowly implies that 10
percent of a man’s activities are what accounts for 90
percent of his productivity. It explains the fact that not all
things matter equally and that some are trivial while a few
are vital. He made it clear that if we focus all our energy,
attention and resources on the vital few, the trivial
many would automatically be addressed with little
or no effort. Extraordinarily successful companies always
have one product or service they’re most known for or that

makes them the most money. With that one product or
service they break even and attract customers towards the
other products and services they offer. Steve Jobs had a goal
and narrowed the activities of his company toward this goal
by doing something differently against popular opinion.
• Do not compare yourself with others, peak
performance is relative:
Never try to compete with others if you truly want to
unlock your kingdom creativity and achieve peak
performance. Do not compare your creativity performance
with another because you are different, hence your
performance should be measured based on your unique
differences and not based on traditional standards. Peak
performance is relative to you. By all means allow the
performance of others to inspire you but make sure you
remain focused on your own key creative competence.
Everyone has a key area of creative competencies where his
genius comes alive the most. Discover the area peculiar to
you because that is where your peak performance lies. Then

strive toward besting your previous achievement at your
next opportunity. Never be comfortable with your last great
performance because you can always outdo your last best
performance. With all these in place, you would always be
ahead and in a class of your own where creativity,
productivity and profitability is what you are known for.
Beyond the Box of Market Saturation
Every creative businessman must be quick to anticipate
market saturation and to creatively avoid being a victim of
this phenomenon if he must remain in business. Market
saturation is responsible for most of the setbacks and
deaths that many businesses and establishments experience
today. Only professionals and businessmen who actually
adopt a “beyond the box” mentality would avert the plateau
of market saturation. I call it a plateau because when market
saturation sets in for a company’s product or services, it
keeps the sales, growth and progress of the company at a
particular level. And if that phenomenon is not smartly and

creatively addressed, it could lead to the extinction of that
company. A company’s market becomes saturated when the
majority of customers has benefitted from its product and
has no need of the product or service again. This is one of
the telltale signs that there is a need for a board meeting, to
review the vision, mission, goals and performance of that
organization. It is a sign that something needs to be done
about research and development. Many companies that
have sustained their relevance in the industry know that if
they are to stay ahead in the market, they must be a step
ahead in providing new improved solutions. This is why
most of these companies invest large chunks of money in
research and development. Market saturation could happen
as a result of fierce competition from other players in the
same industry in which the business operates. It could also
be caused by reason of a sharp decline or reduction in the
consumer market's need for the product or service which
the business provides. Another thing that could lead to
market saturation could be when an entire customer base
has been serviced, and there are no new customer

acquisition opportunities for any firm operating in the
industry. Many companies handle the problem of market
saturation by changing their revenue models, when they
notice a reduction in rate of product sales. For example,
IBM changed its business model toward providing repeat
services the moment they saw saturation in the large PC
market. Another area that requires “beyond the box”
thinking in order to overcome market saturation is the area
of marketing. Adopting unique marketing strategies is a
very good way a company can position itself as outstanding
in a saturated market.
Reinvention and Innovation: The Way Out
Creativity is a necessity for any organization which
intends to surmount the challenges posed by a saturated
market. A company's product or the service it offers has to
be more innovative than that of its competitors for it to
entice customers to buy from them. There are two
fundamental attributes that distinguish the leading tech

companies of the world today from the average one. They
are:
• their ability to manufacture new products, provide
uniquely new services, create new solutions and
innovations by Reinventing their products and services. The
other trait is; and
• their ability to stay ahead in their field by virtue of
gaining fresh ideas and acting on them promptly before
their competitors get a wind of the idea.
The largest tech company in the world at this writing is
the Apple Incorporated Company. These two principles
outlined above are among the greatest things that give them
the long-lasting edge in the tech world. In 2017, Apple Inc.
broke its own record and became the most valuable publicly
traded company in the world with a market cap of $776.60
billion.2 I began to wonder what has made this company
which was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in
1976 so successful till date. As I began to track and study
their history, I discovered that the Apple Company is always

doing a new thing and beckoning on the world to forget
about the former things they have produced. I noticed that
the Apple Company is either always leading its competitors
with better ideas and or reinventing its products and
services year in year out. The company produced the Apple
I computers in 1976 and in the next year it produced the
Apple II. From then on, the Apple Company kept
reinventing its products and creating new ones every single
year till the time of this writing. In my research on their
product timeline, I discovered that the Apple Company has
actually produced new products every year from 1976 to
2017 summing up to about 576 hardware products. These
products ranged from desktop, laptop, Mac, Devices, iPods,
iPhones, iPads, accessories, processors, etc, and they had
many different versions of each product. 3 This was exclusive
of the software services it offered which included iTunes,
iBook, Appstore, Apple Music, iCloud, health kit, Apple
Maps, etc. In July 2017, 10 years after the Apple Inc
launched its first iPhone product, Tim Cooks, the Chief
Executive Officer of Apple reported that the company had

sold over 1.2 billion iPhone products in the past decade. 4
Remember also that anytime Apple sells an iPhone to a
customer it meant they had also secured a new subscriber
for their software services. This global tech giant leveraged
on the principle of always reinventing new products and
services in a bid to add more value and provide greater
customer satisfaction with their services.
As a matter of fact, they are currently known as the most
valuable company in the world. This is because they are
always ahead of the market. They have become known to
always create something new, improved and amazingly
inviting every given year. Before their customers get used to
what they have just released into the market, they reinvent
their products and upgrade it to meet a more unique need
of the moment. They then put something new into the
market and then tell the world to forget the former product
and go for the new. They even go as far as fixing a deadline
within the range of 1-3 years from the release date of the
new release. On or before this deadline, the sales of the

product would be discontinued because a better one has
been produced already.3 The moment I discovered that
their strategy was in consonance with the principles which
the greatest Manufacturer and Creator of all time had
already established, it was no longer a surprise to me why
they kept making much progress in business.
FORGET THE FORMER THINGS; DO NOT DWELL
ON THE PAST. See, I AM DOING A NEW THING!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am
making a way in the desert and streams in the
wasteland.
Isa 43:18-19 NIV
Let me paint you a picture. Imagine God to be the CEO
of the largest conglomerate in all of creation called heaven.
And He sends some of His products and services down to
the market called earth. His customers are always being
awed by how much improvement has been made on the
product and services that this heavenly Company produces.
And they begin to ask questions about the old but wonderful

product because they had already become used to the
former. Then in a bid to help these customers who are down
on the earth’s surface to appreciate His new latest product
and new improved service, this Great Manufacturer tells
them to forget the former things. He does that constantly
because His Company is always getting better ways of doing
things and achieving results. The moment you cultivate
kingdom mentality you would begin to function like this
because that is how God our Creator King functions. If you
were a student and you possessed this kind of thinking, you
would always be ten steps ahead of your peers. While your
contemporaries would be thinking of reading to pass the
exam, you would be thinking of discovering new formulas
to the equation. Your value system and your standard of
reasoning would be higher and greater than that of your
teachers. Your testimony would be like that of one of the
greatest kings that lived upon the face of the earth known as
King David.

Yes, I HAVE MORE INSIGHT THAN MY
TEACHERS, for I AM ALWAYS THINKING of your
laws.
Ps 119:99 NLT
David unlocked his kingdom creativity and discovered
that it placed him on a pedestal that was far removed from
the realm where his teachers found themselves. He
achieved that by upgrading his thinking. He cultivated his
mind to function with kingdom mentality where he thinks
of better ways to achieve what his teachers have tried to
accomplish in an orthodox manner. He also imbibed that
culture into his son, Solomon. King Solomon learned some
of the wisdom he displayed through the mentoring
parenting of his father. He was able to align his thoughts
with that of a higher being (God) through the principles of
His word which he constantly meditated upon. The word
“law” in the above scripture refers to the established
principles of the Almighty God. If you are a professional and
you cultivate this kind of heavenly mentality, you would not

only be an expert but would become a legend and an icon in
that profession. By becoming a legend, we are talking about
being one who is known as a person of extraordinary and
revolutionary achievements in that field. This is actually the
mind of God for every kingdom citizen who represents the
kingdom of heaven here on earth as a professional in an
organization, institution, industry, government, etc. God
did not destine anyone of His children to be a professional
with no relevance but to become one with a difference. You
were not sent to that profession just to earn a living. Your
life is more than earning a living as a kingdom citizen. It is
now more about invading earth with kingdom mentality,
thereby causing a revolution in whatever industry you
belong. As you invade earth with this mentality, you become
a thought leader and you would begin to release new ideas,
possibilities, policies and philosophies. Becoming an icon
on the other hand is not about being popular. It refers to a
person who has become an epitome. This is one who can be
said to be the best description of a particular profession
because of the value he or she releases through that

profession. You now become the best description of God’s
design for that field and this is by reason of the impact you
have brought about through kingdom creativity.
As a business man and entrepreneur, just imagine that
your company is known for the reinvention of its products
and services. Imagine that your product catalogue is
arranged in a new way and the products displayed thereon
are not only newer but much better than what was before.
What do you imagine would become of your business? It
would become known for uniqueness and innovation. You
would command a great percentage of the market to which
you belong. This is how a kingdom citizen ought to function
in his career and business. This is how your company should
be. One way to do that as a student, professional or
businessman is to constantly ask yourself some critical
questions at each new stage of your accomplishment. If your
past or current course of study in school were to become
obsolete or irrelevant by virtue of technological
advancement, a government policy or an economic

recession, what else would you do or how else would you
thrive either as a student or graduate? When Henry Ford
invented the horseless carriage and mass-produced cars for
millions of Americans, a lot of professionals who had built
a career around making horse carriage were out of jobs.
Despite this trend, thousands of new jobs were created but
only people with the relevant skill sets could adapt to the
change. You must ask yourself such honest questions
because change is a constant in life. If you learn to prepare
for change you would become a champion of change rather
than being a victim of change. As a professional, what would
become of your career if you lose your job unexpectedly? I
know God will not allow that happen to you, but don’t you
think it is time to become a better version of yourself? The
earlier you think of becoming a better you, the easier it
would be to move on to something new and do something
bigger and better when the need arises. Can you at least
think of a way to make yourself so valuable that your boss
would go any length to keep you? Your answers to these few

questions would give you an idea of where you stand. It is
time to think beyond the box.
Thoughts to Ponder
• God is the greatest thinker that you can ever think of.
He thinks beyond man’s “box” all the time.
• Thinking beyond the box simply means relieving
oneself of the ordinary thoughts that the average
human mind can produce. It requires plugging into
a higher source from where higher thoughts can be
contacted.
• God’s thoughts are the highest kind of thoughts and
they are the source of creativity.
• Kingdom creativity requires that we function at the
frequency in which God thinks and creates. That is
also what it means to think God’s thoughts after
Him.

• Never get comfortable with your past successes
because they could hinder your future
accomplishments and limit your ultimate potential.
• Take the little steps if you must or take giant strides
if you can but by all means begin to make moves
toward that goal and vision.

CHAPTER SIX
KEYS TO 4-D THINKING
No matter how wonderful things are today, it can
be made better with 4-D thinking.
1) Brainstorm, Mindstorm and Spiritstorm
U
nderstanding the difference between
brainstorming, mindstorming and spiritstorming
is very crucial to functioning in kingdom creativity
and operating at the peak of innovative thinking.
When you brainstorm, you use the mind to dig out
ingenious solutions from the brain based on the
information, knowledge and experiences that are stored in
its memory. The brain is such a powerful organ that is

reported to have more than 100 billion cells. It is also said
that the greatest scientist only used 3 to 10 percent of his
brainpower. The mind can be harnessed and used to tap
into the brain in ways that beggars description and
imagination. Mindstorming on the other hand involves
digging and tapping into both the conscious and
subconscious mind. The mind is such a powerful
instrument that God created in the species called man.
Despite the mind of the ordinary man can perform great
feats, the mind of a kingdom citizen has a greater capacity
for problem solving, creativity and innovation. The best that
the mind of the natural man who is estranged from kingdom
life can do is to brainstorm and mindstorm. However, the
mind of the 4-D thinking kingdom specie has the capacity
to brainstorm, mindstorm and spiritstorm. This is what
differentiates the average inventor who lacks 4-D creativity
from the extraordinary ones who have unlocked theirs. The
ability to use their brain, conscious mind, subconscious
mind and spirit on a frequent basis in their inventive
endeavors sets them apart. To spiritstorm involves the use

of the mind to dig into the spirit of man. The spirit of a man,
who has become a kingdom citizen by the new birth, has
access to revelation and information that are far beyond the
reach of the brain or the subconscious mind. If you study
carefully, brainstorming, mindstorming and spiritstorming
all have something in common despite their distinctiveness.
They all involve the use of the mind at different levels. Now
let us study these three thought provoking phenomena a
little more closely.
Brainstorming
To brainstorm means to investigate a matter and solve
a problem by troubleshooting the brain. Wow! That is an
amazing way to describe it right? Whenever I think of brain
storming, the concept of troubleshooting in computer
language comes to mind. When a computer has a
background problem, one of the ways to resolve it is to
troubleshoot the system. The word troubleshooting
according to Cambridge English Dictionary means the act

of discovering why something does not work effectively and
making suggestions about how to improve it. When you
troubleshoot a computer system, you trigger problem
solving activity in its processor in such a way that the
computer diagnoses the problem with its system and tries
to proffer workable solutions for them. In a similar manner,
when an individual is faced with a problem, he has the
capacity to troubleshoot his brain which is even more
powerful than a computer, in order to get solutions to that
challenge. The brain is known to be the memory storage and
processor of the human. Scientists have said that the brain
has the capacity to store 4.7 billion books worth of
information in its memory. That means there is so much
information stored in your brain that may not be readily
available at your disposal per time until you engage in
brainstorming. When you engage in this exercise with a
problem at hand, you would begin to see ingenuity in the
way your brain would create innovative solutions by
connecting and combining several data that had previously
been stored in it.

The brainstorming principle can also be applied in a
group scenario which is known as the Mastermind group.
Many years ago, the concept of brainstorming became
popularly known and used in a group setting. This creative
technique became known to involve a group of people
meeting together in a bid to stimulate themselves towards
idea generation by suspending any kind of criticism or
judgment. It became known as a group-based process that
has the capacity to stir up the creative genius in the
participants toward reaching a solution for a specific
problem or a series of challenges. A mastermind group
fosters activities like brainstorming within a group of
people and provides an accountability system that helps
them to go from idea generation to taking action on the
ideas generated. When the right group of people is involved
and the right tools are used, a very notable development is
achieved in terms of creativity and brilliance. The phrase
“mastermind group” was discovered by Napoleon Hill and
he coined the concept in 1925 in his book titled “the Law of
Success”1. Napoleon Hill explained this phenomenon in a

very wonderful manner. He defined brainstorming as a
coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of
harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment
of a definite purpose. In another of his book titled, “Think
and Grow Rich”, Napoleon Hill explains the energy that is
produced when a group of people brainstorm in harmony.
He said, “The brain may be compared to an electric battery.
A group of electric batteries will provide more energy than
that a single battery will provide. An individual battery will
provide energy in proportion to the number and capacity of
the cells it contains. The brain functions in a similar
fashion.” He went further to make a profound statement
when he said, “A group of brains coordinated or connected
in harmony will provide more thought-energy than a single
brain, just as a group of electric batteries will provide more
energy than a single battery.” Napoleon Hill also explained
that, “When a group of individual brains is coordinated and
functions in harmony, the increased energy created through
that alliance becomes available to every individual brain in
the group”.2

During a brainstorming group session, part of the rule
is that criticism is not allowed. Members of such groups are
also not allowed to judge the ideas of others. Participants
are encouraged to freely allow their thoughts to fly high and
generate ideas that may be perceived impossible. Such ideas
end up becoming the golden ones that make the difference.
In a brain storming session no one is allowed to be afraid of
saying anything that comes into his mind as an idea. This
atmosphere ensures that people are able to think more
freely. By virtue of that, they suggest many spontaneous
new ideas as possible. All the ideas are noted down and are
not criticized and after the brainstorming session the
generated ideas are evaluated. By reason of this complete
freedom, better and a greater number of ideas are
stimulated. The greater the number of ideas generated and
written down, the more alternatives and solutions would be
discovered. These solutions are thoroughly considered and
modified through combinations of the different ideas that
have been harvested thereby processing solutions that can
address whatever problems are on ground. Everyone

contributes not just ideas of his or her own; they equally
suggest how ideas of others can be improved, or how two or
more ideas can be joined into a better idea.
Andrew Carnegie was the owner of the Carnegie Steel
Corporation, the largest of its kind. Till date he is still
ranked as among the world’s richest men. He was known to
have a Master Mind group that involved about 50 staffs and
he credited his entire success to the fact that he engaged the
Master Mind principle. Andrew Carnegie surrounded
himself with these approximately 50 men and they
channeled their brains toward a clearly defined purpose.
The purpose was to manufacture and market steel. Andrew
Carnegie’s fortune came as a result of the “beyond the box”
thinking that these men along with himself engaged in on a
regular basis2. Franklin D. Roosevelt engaged the power of
brainstorming when he became President. He raised a team
he referred to as his “brain trust”. These brain trust groups
were made up of think tanks. Think tanks are a group of
people, who are experts in their various respects, who come

together to brainstorm ideas for solutions to various
problems. This group of advisers contributed massively to
the success of Franklin’s administration more than
anything else. This brainstorming technique was also what
President Franklin D. Roosevelt employed to bring the
United States of America out of the great depression and
enabled them finance its Second World War efforts2.
History is replete with many great personalities including
great inventors who harnessed their creativity to a much
greater degree by engaging in brainstorming sessions.
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding, John
Burroughs, Luther Burbank and Harvey Firestone also
engaged in brainstorming sessions and with this gave
themselves motivation for the amazing things they went on
to accomplish. Henry Ford, though initially poor, illiterate
and ignorant, went on to become a globally renowned
phenomenon on account of this technique. Within a period
as short as 10 years, he overcame those limitations and
within 25 years he became among the wealthiest men in the
United States of America. Ford’s most outstanding

accomplishments began from the moment he started to
hang out with these great minds2.
Make conscious and concerted efforts to always engage
in brainstorming sessions on a regular basis. You can
coordinate a group of critical thinkers for this purpose or
have moments in your daily schedule for troubleshooting
your brain as an individual. Every organization must build
into its plans, timely brainstorming sessions involving
different groups and departments on regular intervals.
Remember that it is only deep thinkers that can perform
spectacular feats. Every individual in the organization must
be made to imbibe the culture of ideation. These regular
brainstorming sessions allow the free exchange of ideas and
experiences among participants. This way intrapreneurship
would be developed in all the staffs as everyone would have
the freedom and liberty to express his own creative capacity
for problem solving. A lot of organizations today have
continued to stagnate because the attitude of
intrapreneurship absent. There are no platforms for the

employees within the organization to take risks and
spearhead innovative tasks. This is because most businesses
barely create the atmosphere and environment for the
employee who is not a manager to be a part of the solution
creation process. Another problem that silences the
intrapreneurship spirit within an organization is
micromanagement. When a manager tries to wield too
much control and gives excessive attention to minor details
pertaining to the work of his subordinates or employees,
micromanagement is said to be at work. The micromanager
devotes his productive energy towards monitoring every
step of a business process. He does this instead of giving
instructions on smaller tasks through delegation and then
focusing his time and attention towards the supervision of
major concerns. They micromanage the performance of
their staffs so that they can take credit for positive results
and shift the blame for negative results to the subordinates.
When subordinates make good decisions that fall within
their level of authority, micromanagers are usually irritated
because they were not consulted. This business

management style has a negative influence on the
productivity of employees and makes them develop cold
feet toward making suggestions. Another mistake many
business owners and managers make is that they stifle the
creativity of employees who are intelligent and innovative
with or without knowing. They try to overshadow bright and
ambitious individuals who have great prospects to bring a
new dimension into the company’s mode of operation. They
do this through a micromanaged structure and a
bureaucratic process. This approach to leadership leaves
these talented staff with little or no opportunity to flourish
or to express hidden genius.
Mindstorming
This involves engaging your conscious and
subconscious mind in ideation and problem solving. The
average human uses only his conscious mind to solve
problems, strategize and make decisions but the conscious
mind alone is not capable of producing unconventional

results. Mindstorming goes beyond the use of just the brain
to think up ideas and solutions; it also transcends the logic
of the conscious mind. It involves the use of the conscious
and subconscious mind to make decisions and create
solutions that are “beyond the box”. These are not only
“beyond the box” solutions but they are the best solutions
that can be provided within a given context and scenario.
Many renowned and successful people know how to use
their subconscious minds to solve seemingly difficult
problems. Through the concept of mindstorming, they go
beyond the use of their conscious minds which operate with
all the reasonable facts and data that are available to it or
that it has been exposed to. They use the subconscious mind
to solve these problems which their conscious minds could
not resolve. They also employed this technique when it
came to making critical decisions. The United States
President at this writing, Donald Trump, told a story of how
his subconscious mind saved him from taking a wrong step
and making a wrong decision when he was a businessman.
He had already decided what decision he would take with

regards to investing in a project when his subconscious
mind came up with a different solution to his dilemma. The
papers were already being drawn up but he woke up one
morning and it did not feel right anymore to make the
investment. His subconscious mind had worked on the
problem and “mindstormed” a better approach to be taken.
Trump listened to the conclusion of his subconscious mind
and changed his decision. He did not invest in that project
despite the fact that many experts and his conscious mind
had said he should go ahead with the investment. It was
several months later when the company that was engaged
in the project went bankrupt and the investors lost all their
monies that it dawned on Trump how his subconscious
mind had saved him from the loss.
Whenever Thomas Edison the great inventor had a
problem that his conscious mind was unable to solve, he
would go into a darkened room and lay down. He refused to
be disturbed until the solution came to him through his
subconscious mind. Innovative thinking is a deliberate art

that does not happen by chance. It is something that can be
initiated and propagated. Albert Einstein was a renowned
scientist who was famous for his ability to always think
beyond the realm of popular convention and tradition. That
singular attribute set him apart as a legend in modern
science. Interestingly, Albert Einstein was an addicted
thinker who had a very deliberate approach toward
thinking. Brian Tracy gave a beautiful technique that can
aid mindstorming in his book titled “Goals”. I have
practiced this technique ever since I discovered it and the
results have been phenomenal. He stated that one of the
best ways to mindstorm is by writing out a problem you
would like to solve on the top of a sheet of paper and
generate ten, twenty or more ways to solve that problem.
For example, let’s assume you want to solve a problem that
involves boosting sales for your business or generating
revenue for your nation as an elected official, this is what
would be required for effective mindstorming to take place.
Write on the top of a sheet of paper, “How can I boost sales
of my product (service)?” or “How do I generate 50% more

revenues for my nation?” After doing this, begin to ponder
on this question and write down every idea that comes to
mind. As you do, both your conscious and subconscious
mind gets to work. The more ideas you write down the
closer you are to getting something unique out of your
mind. After writing 20 or more answers to that question,
take out one of the most compelling ideas and repeat the
process until you are able to break it down to what you can
begin right away. That means, assuming your most
compelling idea in the list that has to do with sales is to
“improve the selling skills of your staffs”; you would repeat
the process with a new heading. That heading could be,
“How do I improve the selling skills of my staffs?” As you do
this, you would be amazed the kind of innovative solutions
you would generate as you keep repeating the
mindstorming exercise until you get it right.
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out
knowledge of WITTY INVENTIONS.
Prov 8:12

God has endowed us with His wisdom for a deliberate
reason. He wants us to find out knowledge of witty
inventions. One would expect that since you are already full
of wisdom and spirit filled, you do not need to find
knowledge of witty inventions. A lot of people sit down
and do nothing to find this knowledge; they expect
the knowledge to find them. This contributes largely to
why most people are boxed into traditional ways of doing
things and solving problems. Most of the successful
companies in the western world have emerged today
because of the value they placed on intrapreneurship. For
example, the Apple iPhone product was not completely the
brainchild of Steve Jobs alone, even though most of the time
he takes the credit, the glory and the shine. The iPhone
invention which has transformed the tech world today came
as a result of the creative explorations of the employees in
the Apple Company. In his book, “The One Device: The
Secret History of the iPhone”, the author Brian Merchant
makes that clear. Brian Merchant happened to be the
Motherboard Senior Editor of the brand and he said that

“the iPhone began as an experimental project undertaken
without Steve Jobs’ knowledge. It became an official project
at the prodding of his executive staff and was engineered
into being by a team of brilliant, hard-working
programmers and hardware experts3.” This statement
confirms that when a company has an atmosphere that
embraces intrapreneurship, it positions itself to be super
productive and super creative. Brian Merchant also said
that Steve Jobs had solid belief in a wide variety of talent,
“from new blood to veteran hands 3.” A Chief Executive
Officer who never listens to the genuine suggestions of his
board will soon get his company grounded. When the
executives of a company subconsciously or consciously
create an atmosphere that does not encourage novel
suggestions, the productivity of that enterprise becomes
limited by the whims of a few. The same thing happens
when a national leader or political leader does not surround
himself with innovative minds and technocrats. All he
would have around is a bunch of sycophants who have
nothing positive to offer. When new ideas for innovations

are not given adequate attention in a nation or business
entity, the nation would never know progress and the
business enterprise would gradually lose its competitive
edge in the market.
Spiritstorming
This is a very powerful and important aspect of the
creativity process but unfortunately the world has yet to
become conversant with it. Even in the body of Christ today,
only a microscopic few have caught this technique and are
putting it to use. As a matter of fact, this noun may appear
strange to a first-time reader of this book. Despite that, this
technique is clearly revealed in scripture and the earlier we
begin to understand it and put it to work, the better the
world would be. At this writing, no English Dictionary
recognizes the existence of the word spiritstorming. Despite
that, I have come to know by the Spirit that such a word
exists and needs kingdom men like me to bring them to
light. It took a man like Napoleon Hill to coin the term

“mastermind” and enlighten the world about it through his
books. It also took a man like Brian Tracy to establish a
technique for mindstorming, as I heard about it for the first
time while reading his book. In the same manner, it would
take one man to tell the world that a coinage known as
“spiritstorming” exists, and I may just be that one man. If
we are to analyze the concept of spiritstorming, we would
need to study the word which has been given for us to
explore God’s Kingdom more clearly. The word brainstorm
means to investigate and solve a matter by troubleshooting
the brain in order to generate new solutions to problems.
Mindstorming on the other hand, involves searching deep
into the conscious and subconscious mind in order to access
solutions that may not seem logical based on the available
information but proves to be the best when considered.
Spiritstorming therefore, is the searching and scanning of
the mind of God by the spirit of a man who is born again, in
a bid to get a hold of secret solutions that have not yet
entered into the mind of any man.

The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,
SEARCHING ALL THE INNERMOST PARTS OF
HIS BEING.
Prov 20:27 NASB
The scripture makes it abundantly clear that man is a
spirit and has the ability to commune with God in order to
receive the ideas of God for every particular problem or
situation he faces. This is one privilege the man who is not
a born-again kingdom citizen cannot have. The spirit of
man is like a lamp that you turn on in a dark room when you
are searching for something very important. The Bible calls
it the lamp of the Lord and says it can be used to search the
deepest and innermost parts of God. Remember the God we
are talking about is the Omnificent Creator who is the very
source of all creativity. He is the one who made all things.
When you turn on the lamp of your spirit and use it to delve
into the heart and mind of God, you would come out with
creative thoughts and innovations that no other person has
yet contemplated. Become intentional and begin to use this

kingdom creativity technique from this day forward.
Whenever you pray, ask God for illumination, tell Him to
grant to you, ideas that no man’s mind has conceived. Tell
you want to make manifest His glory for all in the world to
see. Keep a pen and a notepad within reach every time
especially when spiritstorming. You would be amazed the
kind of solutions God would reveal to you. George
Washington Carver was a man who took advantage of what
spiritstorming was. By virtue of that, he came up with about
300 uses for the peanut and sweet potatoes. When people
asked Carver how he came up with so many innovative and
unusual ideas for these plants, he answered, “I don’t make
these discoveries”. He went further to say, “God has worked
through me to reveal to his children some of His wonderful
providence.” Carver always told the following story and this
describes a little bit of how spiritstorming works:
One day I went into my laboratory and said, “Dear Mr.
Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for.” The
Great Creator answered, “You want to know too much for

that little mind of yours. Ask something more your size,
little man.” Then I asked, “Please, Mr. Creator, tell me what
man was made for.” Again, the Great Creator replied, “You
are still asking too much.” So, then I asked, “Please, Mr.
Creator, will you tell me why the peanut was made?” “That’s
better,” God answered, “what do you want to know about
the peanut?” This man was one who understood how to
unlock his kingdom creativity. In the year 1921, Carver
addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Ways through which the peanut could be used to improve
the economy of the South. After his speech, the chairman
asked him, “Dr. Carver, how did you learn all of these
things?” Carver responded saying, “From an old book.”
“What book?” And he said, “The Bible,” the chairman
retorted, “Does the Bible tell about peanuts?” And his
response was, “No, sir, but it tells about the God who made
the peanut. I asked Him to show me what to do with the
peanut, and He did.” Carver won “a tariff for the peanut
industry and national fame for himself by virtue of that
encounter4. This man was a wonderful spiritstormer who

knew how to search for hidden truths and secrets in the
realm of the spirit.
That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind
has imagined what God has prepared for those
who love him." But it was to us that God revealed
these things by his Spirit. FOR HIS SPIRIT
SEARCHES OUT EVERYTHING AND SHOWS US
GOD'S DEEP SECRETS. No one can know a
person's thoughts except that person's own spirit,
and no one can know God's thoughts except God's
own Spirit. AND WE HAVE RECEIVED GOD'S
SPIRIT (NOT THE WORLD'S SPIRIT), SO WE CAN
KNOW THE WONDERFUL THINGS GOD HAS
FREELY GIVEN US. When we tell you these things,
we do not use words that come from human
wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by
the Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain
spiritual truths. BUT PEOPLE WHO AREN'T

SPIRITUAL CAN'T RECEIVE THESE TRUTHS
FROM GOD'S SPIRIT. It all sounds foolish to them
and they can't understand it, for only those who
are spiritual can understand what the Spirit
means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all
things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated
by others. For, "Who can know the Lord's
thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?" BUT
WE UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS, FOR WE
HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.
1 Cor 2:9-16 NLT
Spiritstorming takes place when a spirit filled believer
begins to search out the deep things in the realm of the spirit
and bring them into being. God is the only Creator that was
not created. He existed even before the creation of this
world when the present universe had not been brought into
being. All knowledge, wisdom and understanding can be
found in Him. When one searches the mind of God by the
Spirit, he is scanning through the divine portal of insight for

creative and witty inventions. The Spirit then brings the
wonderful discoveries into the heart and mind of the man
who engaged in the Spiritstorming exercise. Men who
search into the mind of the Infinite God, who is all knowing,
get access to knowledge that has not yet entered into the
mind of any man. They connect with revelations and
creative insight that no inventor, scientist, scholar,
philosopher, sage, writer or thought leader has ever
contemplated.
2) Mine your mind extensively
When you unlock your kingdom creativity, your mind
becomes full of great treasures like a mine. The quality of
your life right now is a direct reflection of how much you
have mined your mind. The deeper you mine this great
mine, the greater the treasures you end up pulling out of it.
The quality of the treasures that comes out from your mind
mine is a function of the depth of your digging or thinking.
Any architect or civil engineer that wants to build a

skyscraper or a structure with great heights must be ready
to dig deep into the earth to cast his foundation before
erecting the structure. When the builders are digging the
earth surface, it appears to be extremely difficult at first. At
this level, no one may even appreciate the work done
because all that is seen above the ground is the heap of sand,
rubble, dirt and the excavated earth. Even when the
foundation is being laid several feet underground, it seems
as though nothing is going on. In a similar manner, deep
thinking is required if you want to build great
accomplishments in any of life’s endeavor. When deep
thinking is going on, nobody really can see or appreciate
what is taking place inside until the thing you have been
contemplating begins to come into the visible reality. The
Bible describes God as a deep thinker and that is one of the
reasons why He does great things that beggars description.
How spectacular are your works, O Lord! How
very deep are your thoughts!
Ps 92:5

This verse makes it clear that God is a deep thinker and
that is why He performs spectacular works. If you must do
great things you must solve great problems and to solve
great problems, you must engage in deep thought. The mind
has been built by God to be the womb from which
innovation is birthed. The mind is one of the greatest tools
that God has given to man. Many years ago, the richest men
in the world were those who discovered gold mines,
diamond mines and oil mines. They were men like John D.
Rockefeller who became the first billionaire by building a
fortune out of the oil revolution in the early nineteenth
century. This man became rich by drilling oil wells in
Cleveland and by controlling the oil market through his
company Standard Trust Oil. Those who drilled deep into
oil wells and tapped into the resources in those wells
became extremely wealthy. Andrew Carnegie became
stupendously wealthy by mining iron ores from iron mines
and blasting the ores in a furnace to produce steel. Several
others have amassed great fortunes by mining the gold,
silver and diamonds from their mines and refining them

into valuable products. The interesting truth however is that
the next generations of “trillionaires” are those who would
mine the golden ideas in their minds. The mind is actually
the greatest mine which the world is yet to discover. That is
why deep thinking is a required necessity, if you would be
able to pull out great thoughts and ideas from your mind.
The valuable resources that can be got from mining the
mind are beyond enumeration because they are
innumerable. The more you can mine the treasures
embedded in your mind, the greater and more spectacular
works you can perform. And the more spectacular your
works and contributions to the betterment of humanity are,
the greater rewards you would be entitled to. This is because
in life, everyone would be compensated according to the
level of his contribution.
In developed and even underdeveloped cultures today,
people are beginning to recognize the value of mining the
mind. They now value ideas the way a real estate property
is valued and most times to even greater measures. These

are ideas that have been produced into equivalents that can
be of benefit to others. They even go as far as calling them
intellectual properties and have various organizations that
recognize the creativity of individuals, organizations and
nations. An intellectual property is the outcome of
creativity. That means, when an idea is conceived and
produced into equivalents that people can benefit from with
any of their five senses, it becomes an intellectual property.
The beauty of an intellectual property is that an unlimited
number of people can benefit from it without the product
getting exhausted. For example, a song can be listened to by
billions of people and still not be depleted. The same goes
for a book, a poem, a formula, a design, and lots more. They
can be consumed by a vast number of people without
getting diminished. That is why they are more valuable than
traditional properties like gold, crude oil, silver, diamond
which gets depleted the more they are mined from their
deposits. Many decades after am gone, my books would still
hold value and still benefit generations yet unborn because
intellectual properties unlike traditional properties, outlive

their owners. Owners of patents, trademarks and copyrights
would be remembered for the creations of their mind which
were patented in their name. People now even get into real
trouble for trying to steal another man’s intellectual
property or for using it with permission or due
acknowledgement. Individuals, corporations and even
nations are found to be in copyright lawsuit contentions and
intellectual property disputes that linger. This goes to show
that ideas have become more valuable than cars, houses,
money and other material things that people spend a
fortune to protect from loss.
3) Question the status quo
Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime minister of
India and at the time of this writing, she was the only female
who ever handled that office5. Despite having similar
names, she was not related to Mahatma Gandhi in any way.
This lady said something worth contemplating when she
said that “the power to question is the basis of all human
progress.” A lot of people want answers for which they have

never asked a question. The fact however is that life only
gives to man as much as he demands from it. If you ask
nothing from life, then life will give you nothing in return.
If you ask for a penny in life, you only get a penny. Thomas
Edison has 1,093 patents in America alone to his name
because he asked more than a thousand questions and
would not stop until he got an answer. On one of his
innovations, he kept asking questions repeatedly for more
than 1,000 times until he got the answer that made the light
bulb discovery possible. Today we still benefit from the
solutions that were contained in an answer that came from
asking one question repeatedly. He kept demanding an
answer to his questions for more than a thousand times
until the answer that contained the solution which we all
benefit from today was given to him. Answers contain
solutions that come from questions. The quality of any
answer is directly determined by the quality of the questions
that are asked. It is no longer news therefore, that every
discoverer and inventor begin their quest with a
transformative question that challenges the status quo. No

matter how wonderful things are right now in your life, your
profession, organization, corporation or nation today, it can
be better. It will only get better however, if you or someone
daring enough would question the present situation of
things whether these things are working fine already or not.
Until one man questions the validity of a popular belief
that has become entrenched into the tradition and culture
of institutions, societies, organizations and even nations,
nobody would wake up from the state of slumber which
conventional and traditional beliefs places on people. The
Catholic Church of the medieval period taught that people
needed to pay money in order to secure the afterlife and
avoid punishment for their wrongs. Until Martin Luther
King began to ask questions, nobody noticed the insanity in
the practices of the Catholic bishops and pope. Many people
are living ordinary lives today because they asked ordinary
questions yesterday. They are asking for an increase in their
minimum wage when they ought to be seeking ways
through which they can make their offices, enterprises and

nation more productive. They are asking for a means of
livelihood when they ought to have asked for the solution to
the vast needs in their nation. The truth is that no amount
of minimum wage was designed to be enough especially in
underdeveloped countries. When Jeff Bezos retired from
his well-paid job, he was asking for something greater than
a paycheck. He was asking for a better means to get books
to readers. He never knew the answer to that question
would produce a multidimensional solution provider in the
world. Today, Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world
because he founded Amazon, the answer to the questions
that caused him to resign from a high paying job. Amazon
today does not only sell books to its customers as it did
when it earlier began. It now sells everything to everyone. It
now even provides secure cloud services to the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) as at the 2018. It also provides
scores of other web-based services to merchants all over the
world. All this came as a result of groundbreaking questions
that produced groundbreaking solutions to problems
clothed in their answers. Great questions are clearly

the quickest and surest paths to great answers and
sometimes questions are more important than
answers.
The amazing thing about life is that it gives you what
you demand from it. The quality of a man’s life is a direct
reflection of the quality of what he has demanded for. In
other words, the kind of life you are living now is a product
of the kind of requests you have made. To further break it
down, the total outcome of your life today is the sum total
of the questions you have asked or not asked. If you ask the
wrong question from life, you would get the wrong answer.
On the other hand, if you ask the right question, you would
get the right answer. Every ground breaking discovery
came because someone was curious enough to
engage in groundbreaking search, looking for
groundbreaking answers to groundbreaking
questions. If you would dare to ask the more important
questions possible, the answer you would get can be life
transforming. Questions actually hold the keys to our lives.

The kind of questions we expose ourselves to determine
how we are going to think and what we are going to do about
what we think. This may sound very strange because all
through our lives we have been programmed by educational
institutions that the intelligent ones are those who know the
answers. That is why many times those who come out tops
in schools by memorizing the already thought out answers,
end up becoming employees to those who had genuine
unanswered questions to which they found a peculiar
solution and answer to. No wonder a famous French
philosopher and writer said “judge a man by his questions
rather than his answers”. The quality of questions you ask
would go a long way to shape your life.
Brian Tracy made an observation when on a speaking
engagement with some companies. He discovered that most
times, people knew who the top salesmen in an organization
were but none of the other salesmen ever went to ask the
salesmen questions on how they got to the top. As long as
they never asked questions, they never made it to the top.

There is so much untapped wisdom and creativity around
you waiting to be unlocked by one intelligent question from
you. This was what Sir Francis Bacon, an influential English
philosopher that impacted the scientific revolution meant,
when he said “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
The Socratic method of teaching is about one of the oldest
teaching methods but yet is reported to be the most
powerful teaching tactic today. This is because it fosters
critical thinking by focusing on giving students guiding
questions, rather than answers. The Socratic teaching
method stimulates the mind to engage in critical “beyond-
the-box” thinking by inquiring and continually probing into
a subject matter with questions. This method of teaching
through questions which is more than 2,400 years old is still
embraced by some of the most renowned educators today.
Even the scientific method also uses the method of asking
questions to bring about a whole process of discovery. It
begins by asking questions that in turn stimulate research
with which a hypothesis can be developed, followed by an
experiment before a conclusive reasoning can be inferred.

This is because questions engage our creative and critical
thinking capacity and in turn unlocks our hidden genius.
There is a difference between asking critical questions for
genuine solutions and asking questions that makes the
problem appear too difficult to be solved. You should also
use the instrument of questioning the status quo in a
positive light. Your question should be driven towards
brainstorming fresh solutions.
4) Observe Negative Historical Trends and
alter its repetition
There was an island in the Caribbean that was called
Hog Island. It was someone who named it that way. And for
years people called it by that name and that was how it was
labeled on the map. It took someone who came along one
day and questioned the idea behind that name. He said “I
don’t like that name. It is not a good name”. He then went
on to rename the place Paradise Island and now that is what
you see on the map. When it was known and referred to as
Hog Island, it was just a piece of landmass used for farming.

However, since the name was changed for better, it has
some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
There is no problem that faces any man today that has
not been before. If you check through history, it is easy to
note that most of the challenges which individuals,
businesses, organizations, governments and nations are
facing today are not new. They are most times not even
peculiar because someone somewhere has gone through the
same challenge. Believing and accepting this school of
thought is a great way towards solving any problem at any
level of existence. The problem is that when you are not
aware that someone has gone through that same challenge
and do not know how they overcame it if they did, then you
can easily become a victim of circumstance. Some people try
to reinvent the wheel without knowing because they have
isolated themselves from the vast knowledge that is
available to this present generation. Hence, they are still at
the mercy of the same challenges and problems that were
faced by men of old. They are trying to solve the problem

without finding out what solutions are already available so
they can probably improve on it or adapt it to their peculiar
situations. Negative trends of history can only be altered by
students of history, hence be sensitive to ways by which you
can rewrite history by paying attention to the occurrences
that take place around you.
5) Master the principles and Reinvent the
methods
Thinking innovatively does not necessarily mean that
one should ignore the underlying principles that govern a
particular activity, process, discovery or invention. Without
principles the world would be a confused place to live in
because nothing would be predictable. Everyone would do
things by guesswork and no one would be sure of the results
to expect from any action. For example, if the concept of
sowing and reaping or planting and harvesting was not an
established principle, every farmer would be confused
about how to generate a harvest from his farm. Everyone
can predict the outcome of the application of principles

because principles do not change. However, methods are
supposed to be subjected to change and improvement in
order to achieve greater results. For example, despite the
fact that the principle of sowing and reaping has been
established, the methods engaged in order to put the
principles to work does not have to be rigid, traditional or
conventional. These methods must constantly be subjected
to reinvention protocols so that the best can be got from this
principle.
6) Look at what you have with Fresh
perspectives
When you study what you have, you look at it from a
different angle and a new perspective. There are many
hidden potentials in what you already possess which may
never come to light if you do not look at them with fresh
eyes. What you have transcends money or material
resources even though it is also part of the things you must
see from fresh perspectives. Whenever God wanted to do
something for people in scripture, He always asked them for

what they had already and most times their response
showed that they were looking at what they had with the
wrong mentality. At such occasions God helped them to
look at what they had with fresh perspectives. The first
encounter Moses had with God was when he heard a voice
come out from a burning bush. During this encounter, God
helped Moses change his perspective on the rod he always
carried about like an ordinary walking stick. Scripture gives
us the account as follows:
Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me
or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear
to you'?" THEN THE LORD SAID TO HIM, WHAT
IS THAT IN YOUR HAND? A STAFF, he replied. The
Lord said, "Throw it on the ground." MOSES
THREW IT ON THE GROUND AND IT BECAME A
SNAKE, AND HE RAN FROM IT. Then the Lord said
to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the
tail." So, Moses reached out and took hold of the
snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

Exo 4:1-4NIV
When God showed Moses that what he was carrying
about in his hand was a rod that could work wonders when
subjected to the right processes, he was awestruck. Many
are like Moses today, carrying about ideas, resources,
qualifications, talents, skills and think all of these things
they have are just like an ordinary staff. They do not know
that these same things can produce billions of dollars for
them and solve national problems if only they could see
them from a fresh perspective. You would be dazzled at
what can become of that thing in your hand that seems little
or ordinary to you. Moses ran away from his own staff which
he had carried about for many years as a shepherd. He was
frightened with what that ordinary staff could become when
he followed God’s creative instruction. From that moment
forward, Moses began to see his staff from a fresh
perspective. He had the boldness to walk around holding
just that staff because he knew that what was in his hands
could be used to perform wonders. He could dare Pharaoh

and all the host of the Egyptian army because he had seen a
new dimension of the staff he used to consider as ordinary.
What do you have in your hands? It may be a
Smartphone and some free time. Do you know that you can
actually achieve so much if you can start seeing your
Smartphone from a fresh perspective? With that
Smartphone, you can acquire unlimited knowledge than
what you would have received in a formal institution.
Unfortunately, many only use their Smartphones to engage
in conversations and chit chats that are highly
unproductive. Yet they complain that they do not have
anything with which to live their dreams. I wrote the first
few chapters of my first book with a Smartphone. I had no
personal computer or laptop as at that time because I gifted
mine to a friend for his university project. The moment I
conceived the brainchild of writing my first book, I
discovered that I needed a laptop to develop the
manuscript. I had no money at that time to hire a
professional writer so I was stuck with a book idea and no

instrument nor personnel to work on my book. It was not
long before God helped me unlock my creative reasoning to
recognize that I could start working on that dream book
with my Smartphone. I discovered that my phone had
keypads that could aid typing at a reasonable speed. It also
had the software that could enable me create the
manuscript as a Microsoft word document. The moment I
saw my phone with a fresh perspective, I turned it into a
mini office. I used it to do a lot of research and to kick start
my writing career. It was after I had already written a good
part of my manuscript, I got money to complete what I had
been saving up to purchase a laptop of my own. Till today, I
am amazed at how my ability to see what I had with a fresh
perspective made a huge difference in my life at that phase
that I was in. You may be reading this book and you think
that you do not have what it takes to become a wonder unto
many. If only you can cross examine yourself and look at the
things God has put in your hand with a fresh perspective.
You would shock yourself at the kind of result that you
would begin to command in no time. There are many

wonderful things that you have right now. Forget about
what you do not have at the moment. It is not what you do
not have that is the issue but actually what you have but do
not know how to use. That is where kingdom creativity
makes the difference because it helps you recognize every
possible resource that God has gifted you with. Allow God
show you another perspective to your little gift, talent, idea
or possession and you would marvel at what would become
of it. Moses went on to divide the red sea with that same rod.
He struck a rock with the same rod and water gushed out
for the Israelites in the desert. Moses did numerous
wonders with that same rod that people marveled at. You
too can do amazing things, solve global problems and
become a wonder unto many if you would look at what you
have no matter how little, with a fresh perspective.
7) Prioritize Research and Development
Most of the richest and greatest nations in the world
today invest billions of dollars in Research and

Development yearly. They are doing this because the only
way to stay relevant as a nation, organization or individual
is when you invest time and resources in research and
development. If you want to know the future of any nation,
look out for its research and development spending. If you
want to project into the vibrancy of a nation’s economy over
the next decade, check out its plans and budget for research
and development. Every nation’s economic future does not
lie in how much natural resources it possesses but how
much she is able to develop products and services. The
global market is moving at such a pace that any nation that
wants to remain relevant in the global market place would
be the nation that prioritizes research and development on
a national scale in its budgeting. You can tell the future of
an individual from the priority time and resources he places
on personal research and self-development. You cannot
separate a nation, organization or an individual’s
investment on research and development from their
economic stability, innovative capacity and financial
prosperity. No wonder it is popularly said that what you

learn is what you earn. The world is so dynamic that any
nation, company or individual that wants to stand out must
be one that is given strongly to research and development.
Japan has no significant amount of natural resources
but is a major manufacturer and exporter of products and
services that play a significant role in the global market. It
is said that 75% to 80% of Japan’s landscape is covered with
mountains and is the most earthquake prone area in the
world6. Japan has recorded more earthquakes than any
other nation in the world because it sits on an active seismic
site. This nation has experienced several tsunamis and more
than 450 volcanic eruptions. As a matter of fact, Japan is
said to be the most disruptive geographical location because
of the rate of natural disasters and catastrophes that she has
experienced7. Despite the unfavorable geography of this
nation, she has the third biggest economy in the world
according to the World Economic Forum in 2017. 8 This is
not a coincidence because when you study the priority
investment which Japan has given towards research and

development over the years, you would understand that it
did not happen by chance. Japan’s ability to withdraw its
dependence on foreign research in the 1980s in order to
carry out independent research and development led to its
great advancement. According to UNESCO data in 2016,
Japan was also ranked third in the world in terms of biggest
research and development expenditure. Today Japan is a
member of the G7, a group of seven countries with the
largest advanced economies in the world9. All these did not
happen by luck, coincidence or magic. They came as a result
of a deliberate effort towards research and development
which is critical for active innovative thinking. Japan is a
major exporter of automobile, electronics, pharmaceuticals,
petrochemicals, etc. Her manufacturing industry depends
heavily on importation of raw materials and export of
finished products. Any nation that wants to improve its
influence in the global market space must be ready to
engage in serious creative thinking. It would need to
dedicate a good amount of funds to create an environment
conducive for research and development. If a country like

Nigeria can leverage on this strategy, it would experience a
robust growth and would become a major exporter of
finished goods instead of being an exporter of raw materials
and importer of finished products. At this writing, Amazon
is the highest spending company on research and
development as far as the world is concerned. When Jeff
Bezos, the founder and CEO of this company was asked in
2011 about the rationale behind such “crazy” spending on
only research and development, he made some remarkable
statements. He said “Look inside a current textbook on
software architecture, you'll find few patterns that we don't
apply at Amazon. And while many of our systems are based
on the latest in computer science research, this often hasn't
been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to
advance research in directions that no academic had yet
taken. Many of the problems we face have no textbook
solutions, and so we happily invent new approaches10.” Can
you imagine that? This company thrives on solving
problems that have no textbook solution by investing
heavily on research and development. What a

phenomenon! No wonder they have been on top for quite a
while now. Ensure that research and development is a
priority in your personal and corporate affairs and
innovation would be second nature to you.

Thoughts to Ponder
• To brainstorm means to investigate a matter and
solve a problem by troubleshooting the brain.
• To mind storm is to engage your conscious and
subconscious mind in ideation and problem solving.
• To Spiritstorm is to search and scan the mind of God
through the spirit of a man who is born again, in a
bid to get a hold of secret solutions that have not yet
entered into the mind of any man.
• The quality of your life right now is a direct reflection
of how much you have mined your mind.
• Sometimes questions are more important than
answers.

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Iredafenevesho Owolabi is a Creativity Coach with the goal of
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THE CONCEPT OF 4-D THINKING

BEYOND THE 3-D BOX

THE PRINCIPLE OF REINVENTION

REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE REINVENTION

CHAPTER FIVE: 103

PEAK PERFORMANCE CREATIVITY

CHAPTER SIX: 132

KEYS TO 4-D THINKING

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 189

In this life, there are no lucky breaks. Things do not just

There is a huge difference between being favored and being

We live in a world littered with problems that seem to have

This volume contains some vital truths that would deepen

THE CONCEPT OF 4-D

One fateful day, as I was preparing for a seminar event in

We all function in different dimensions and our experiences

What is A Dimension of Thinking?

The Power of Dimension

Zero-dimensional thinking is the kind of thought pattern

When everyone in your little circle seems to flatter you with

When I was much younger, I was very passionate about

One-dimensional thinking brings about a linear but slow

One-dimensional thinkers put their confidence in

While a zero-dimensional thinker does not make any form

Many businesses have gone the way of dinosaurs due to this

People in this box are too fearful of losing or sacrificing what

While one-dimensional thinkers are too fastened to the

Three-dimensional thinking is a very powerful dimension of

We can borrow a lesson from mathematics in order to

The length of man’s thinking represents how long he has

Let us now talk about the depth or height of 3-

Most of the smart men on this planet today, function only

A layman’s way of explaining 4-D thinking is, thinking from

From personal research, observation, insights and

Henry Ford is famous for the invention of cars even though

What we know as mass-production today was an invention

The Problem of Solving Problems

All of these paints a graphic picture of how sometimes,

Only 4-D Creativity can bring a holistic solution to problems

• Never take pride in the fickle praise of men, you need

BEYOND THE 3-D BOX

Think vs. Think Different (IBM/Apple Inc.)

I n the year 1914, Thomas J. Watson became the

General Manager of International Business

Machines (IBM) and after 11 months he became IBM

President. Before Watson joined IBM, he was the manager

of sales and advertising departments at the National Cash

Register (NCR) Company. He had a slogan for which he was

commonly known and that slogan followed him from NCR

went on to become IBM’s motto and trademark even up

as a tool to always motivate and inspire the staff at NCR and

IBM because of Watson’s influence and constant belief in

the power of that word. What is this word which became so

relevant to the IBM brand that it was boldly tattooed on the

walls of all the rooms in every IBM building? What is this

all-important word that every IBM stationery, scratchpad

and matches bore its inscription? It was the five lettered

word known as think! IBM did everything to make this word

soak and sink into the conscious and subconscious mind of

its employees. This I believe was because they knew it was a