A Chat with Fawole John Oyeyemi

1. Can we meet you?

My name is Fawole John Oyeyemi, a Professional Chess Player & a graduate of computer science from University of Abuja. I learnt how to play chess and participated in my  first Chess tournament in 1999. In 2002, I won the Opens II category of the NBL Chess Championship in Lagos. The following year, I became the National Junior Chess Champion by winning the Agusto & Co under 20 Chess Championship.  Following my achievement in 2003, I started playing in the (Masters Category) highest level in Nigerian Chess.

2. It all started: It started right immediately after winning the Junior Championships, It was a long & tough journey and i think tenacity has brought me this far. I had to let go of chess for a while to concentrate on academics and earn my Bachelor's degree. At that point, i needed to set my priorities right and concentrate on academics after which i returned to chess and fortunately, i won the National Championship after Graduating from Uni.

Success is impossible without Habits

There are few things once acquired will guarantee success. In fact to be successful one must possess several qualities like patience, perseverance, consistency, hard work e.t.c. All these qualities applied together towards a specific goal always create success. Many have puzzled and searched for a shortcut to success but there really isn’t any. The closest thing to a cheat sheet for success is understanding and applying the power of habit formation.

According to Wikipedia, “Habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously”. So in other words, habit is very similar to a computer program as it helps repeat a particular task regularly. And a computer program can be written to perform any task the programmer desires.