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Graze on Native Grace to be Great: Match Source with Resource

Nashon J. Adero
3 min readMar 10, 2020

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Grazing natively in the Tsavo are elephants who know how to navigate the landscape in all seasons, for that is their grace and greatness of place.

Being Native

He spoke fittingly when he quipped that fish don’t go to swimming schools but they swim in schools (both literally and as a collective term). Birds and flight? Same case. That was Myles Munroe grazing on his native grace of sharing knowledge on cultivating gifts for effective living. As I write this piece, I’m on a Mombasa-bound train admiring the effortless majesty with which elephants roam the great Tsavo landscape, not apprehensive of anything. These masters of matchless long-term memory are just one in many of nature’s masterpieces of unique mission-oriented gifts.

Nature portrays a structured simplicity achieved through aeons of adaptive learning and perfecting of solutions. Soap bubbles are spherical, for that is the most economical shape under prevailing forces. Bees have found their optimal building design in a hexagon, the most economical shape consuming the least wax.

Being Nature’s Student

Have you been told that the world owes you nothing? A wrong way of communicating scientific facts! I’d emphasise that the world as a system owes you something and you owe the world something too, hence it’s about mutuality. It’s about interdependence, a reciprocal relationship whose net result is apparent to the masses as…

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Nashon J. Adero
Nashon J. Adero

Written by Nashon J. Adero

A geospatial and systems modelling expert, lecturer, youth mentor and trained policy analyst, who applies system dynamics to model complex adaptive systems.

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