By
all accounts, Anthony Weiner, a former member of the United
States House of representatives from New York City, was a brilliant
politician who had everything going for him. However, he careered off the track
because of his amazing ability to ‘self-destruct’. You see, Weiner had a thing
for sexting. His first scandal began when as a Congressman, he tweeted a
link that contained a sexually suggestive picture of himself to a 21-year-old
woman – a habit that went on for a number of years until 2016 when he pled
guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor.
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| Antony Weiner Self Destructed His Political Career |
Others
with the gift to self-destruct include golfer Tiger Woods, former President,
Bill Clinton and the artiste R. Kelly for example. Now the question begs - do
you think Wiener, Woods, Clinton and Kelly woke up some morning and decided to
destroy everything they worked for in their lives? Probably not. So what would
drive accomplished men to do something so self-destructive?
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| Tiger Woods Had It All Until He Hit the Self Destruct Button |
The
answer has to do with how the brain works. Our brain likes to operate on
autopilot as much as possible because it takes energy to focus on important
tasks. And the brain likes to conserve its energy for those actions that
require focused attention such as learning or other important tasks. That means
we only have so much energy to focus on several things at once. Everything else
that is already learned is being controlled in the background.
Self-Destruct
Case One
Closer
to home, Odongo so I am told, is brilliant at what he does as a Gulu based
accountant – except as you have already guessed, he self-destructed. The last
time he did it - which I might add, saw him sent off the coolers for three
years, was after picking up sh38m or so from Supplier to bank on the company
account – something he didn’t do. Instead, he banked it on his personal
account. When asked why he did it, his answer sneered: “The bank was about to
close and I would not have made it in time to the bank where the company held
its account. My bank was closer.” Odongo further continued to hit the
self-destruct button when it emerged that the company bank, was just across the
street from his bank plus, he didn’t credit the company account the following
day when there was enough time. Rather, he feebly only tried to do so 14 months
later when he heard a snap audit was being carried out in which he was
rumbled.
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| Self Destruct One |
Self-Destruct
Two
When
Fred asked Tight to pick up his car from the bond and have it registered, Tight
duly obliged. Two days later Fred flew out for a year of studies in Scotland.
When he returned, the car was in his garage where it had been parked for a
year. A couple of days later and on his first outing into town in the ride,
around The Village Mall in Bugolobi, a Premio pulls up behind him starts
flashing lights with the occupants all over themselves pointing that he should
pull over. He did so but took the precaution of driving to the police post lest
they were thieves. They were not thieves. Instead one of them was the real
owner of the car for while he was away, Tight had given in the log book as
collateral on a loan which he had not serviced.
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| Self Destruct Two |
Self-Destruct
Case Three
When
Manesh who had blatantly cut work was called into the office by Female Boss and
asked where he had been, all he had to do was say “at the sites solving
problems”. Instead he told her: “I was in town.” Frowning she asked: “In town
doing what” to which he duly hit the self-destruct button in the most
spectacular way. He said: “Nothing.” Is there any need to guess what she spewed
out of her mouth at him?
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| Self Destruct Three |
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