When a delivery man arrived at Oyin’s door, she expected the same old treatment. Absentmindedly, she reached for the package and signed for it. “How do you pronounce your name?” the delivery guy asked.

O-y-i-n-d-a-m-o-l-a, she spelt, Oyindamola.” What happened next was remarkable. The delivery man cried out in despair flinging his hands on his head. “Aye mi baje,” he said in perfect Yoruba, “Oyindamola ni mi o le pe?”

Here, a native Yoruba speaker, used to viewing hundreds of difficult names daily, had bought into the idea that, ‘all non-English names were unpronounceable.’ He’d limited his innate linguistic abilities.

Can you relate? Sometimes, we create prisms through which we view life and our abilities. We limit our aspirations and achievements because of these mindsets. In what ways are you limiting yourself today?