Early this morning, I was going through a book authored by John C Maxwell- "Talent is never Enough" which I have abandoned for a while but decided to pick it up today. I could clearly remember where I stopped and this was because I left a demarcation. I stopped at chapter seven –“Perseverance Sustains Your Talent”. Reading through the pages was as motivating as usual until I opened to a section where I learnt a lesson which was relating to a mistake I made of recent. The section says: It is a Wrong Belief that Success is a Destination. The main point of the whole section is –"Complacency is a Success Diseases: it takes root when you are good about who you are and what you’ve achieved. It’s ironic, but past success can be the fiercest enemy to future success."
Very CORRECT!!! I fall a victim of this disease of recent. It happens to be in my academics. I’ve been walking the road right from my first year to the middle of my third year and giving-all-in to every opportunity that comes my way to achieve excellence. It got to a point where I became full of myself, I see myself pop-up among the best and see myself within the boundaries of my target; I lost the hunger to strive for the best. I earned the wage of satisfaction.
I started losing the urge to study while putting my reliance on my smartness. I end up walking on a plateau if not even walking down the slope. I never discovered the consequence until I wrote the second-semester exam when cheap questions turned out to be tough- the worst that even happened was during a paper in which I received just two essay questions and I was short of words. Although the questions were hard but couldn’t have been to the extreme of giving me an incredible knock-out.
Well, I think, I’ll always remember this and should be a nitro boost for the next session.
Thanks for reading, Hope you have a great day.
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