When Educational Failure is Not an Option

You imagine with all the hype of success in different channels of communication; nine out of ten students excel in academic studies. That is the ideal.  Reality of educational failure on the ground is the opposite. “No one plans to fail, many fail to plan.”  This is not just a cliche, not a fairy-tale but a fact of life in all fields including education.

“I want to be a doctor,” no one is stopping you.  You’re the best there is and will ever be on planet earth.  Let no one tell you otherwise.  Achieving that goal to become a doctor requires you to channel all your efforts and energy on study now to realize your dream in future.

You’ve the dream.  Get to work and turn that dream into reality. Here are three simple steps to take when educational failure is not an option: Develop Latent Talent, Dream Big and Dig Deep. You’ve no one to blame.

Develop Latent Talent

You’re endowed with enormous wealth of knowledge waiting to be tapped. You’ll never exhaust the reservoir of knowledge anymore than you can drain the sun’s power.  Your individual potential is a reservoir of untapped latent talent, unique and exclusive to you.  The potential within you need unpackaged and put into productive use through reading with understanding.

Dream Big

You’re not daft.  No teacher, college tutor or university lecturer should persuade you to believe scientific test that you don’t have what it takes in the brains department.  You’re able to sort out, organize and draw from your inner strength of resourcefulness.  No amount of persuasion, pressure, and perseverance makes a difference in studies without managing your study life.  Discipline to live the student life is the key that unlocks doors of opportunities in studies.

Dig Deep

Allow me to glean on three quotes from Dr. Ben Carson’s book, “Think Big, Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence,” in support of digging deep as you read with understanding.

• Reading Stimulates Perspective in Learning

“Reading activates and exercises the mind,” Dr. Carson wrote.  The more you read with understanding, the more your mind is active and the more you’re hooked onto books. In the process, the overall purpose of studies becomes clear.

• Reading Supports Clarity of Purpose

“Reading forces the mind to discriminate,” Dr. Carson adds. Your brain will throw up only things you want and choose to recall to memory.

• Reading is Spontaneous, So is Creativity

“Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.”  You don’t learn creativity in school, college or university.  You’re creative by nature.   Reading ignites your creativity.  In the words of Napoleon Hill, the author of “Principles of Success” when failure is not an option,

“Feed your burning desire with images of your successful self.  Stoke its flames so high that they burn your seat …you won’t be able to sit back in your chair and take it easy when you ought to be following up on your work on the day before.”

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