Students’ Speak: Make your own strategy, eradicate weak points

By: Shrikant Jha

Life is all about doing work. As per a quote in Gita, if someone is alive he is consistently doing some work, even our breathing is considered as work. Then again when we do work more consciously where we are expecting some desirable results, two probabilities arise either you would succeed or fail which is quite normal. We cannot run away from that.  Let’s accept it first.

Prerequisites

What we need to understand is failure is not an alien thing. We just over-exaggerate it in our minds and start to deceive our minds making extreme predictions and verdicts. Which is not even close to our reality. The day we started to walk from crawling as a baby, did you just get up and start running or took some time with consistent struggle? Now in our language there we were hanging around in between success and failure. So, there is nothing such as failure or success it’s just a segmented boundary.

Types of fear

Let’s talk about it one by one, in brief,  later I will elaborate on their solutions.

1. Exam / College related failure: Are you preparing for some exam or have prepared but failed in it and now have some regrets?  First of all, you need to understand that a single exam cannot decide your future. You can still get whatever life standards, packages, company you want. It’s okay to relax, no need to harm yourself emotionally, mentally or physically. Just sketch out your weak points that you have faced during your preparations. Be brutally honest. Go get another better college within your rank, work hard as hell on your skills, be it coding, English or anything as per your specific course. Attempt GATE or crack any company interview. If you want more, you will have to work more.

Now, this is just an example. Mindfully make your own strategy, eradicate weak points. You will definitely get whatever you want but maybe some more efforts would be required. But those things which you have dreamt of are still waiting for you there.

2. Course-related fear isn’t very severe but must be talked about. Are you enrolled in some course or were enrolled but now you have some regrets regarding you might have extracted more benefits from it. For example, you have wasted your 3-4 years of college only having low-quality fun nothing productive. Then you seriously need to understand that there is something you need to understand :

1. You are not disciplined, you are just repeating the same patterns of daily habits
2. Either you are unaware that you are doomed or you have realised but are not interested in taking up your own stand for your life
3. You have realised your issues but having some difficulties in overcoming it

Fixing your fear?

1. I won’t lie, you cannot fix it. This is not some disease. It’s natural sometimes being nervous. Still, if you think that this is ruining your pace in preparations apart from being a hardworking aspirant. Here I have something for you :

1. Motivation won’t help you in the long run. You need to have a sharp discipline in your life. Discipline will always help you in each and every situation in your life.
2. You need to understand what makes you fear about the exam, college or course. Then work on every single issue one by one
3. Now have some milestones in your preparation or work or anything in which you want to excel
4. With each milestone, have a small rating system for yourself or maintain some kind of small diary for it
5. Milestones and rating systems make you consciously aware of your hard work. Whenever you turn back those pages, you will have endorphins rushing in your body giving you a sense of accountability of your whole work.

2. Some required elements which are super simple to understand but hard to implement :

1. Awareness: You must have full information about the value of your college, course or examination. What you can get from it in terms of skills, stability, knowledge
2. Hard work: Proper work but no need to burn out yourself. Proper practice or concepts include revision of the same
3. Discipline: This is a low level abstract of everything which is in order in this world. Which these demigods have proved themselves to gods. Mankind has laid the whole civilization. Boxers, Olympians or any high-performance athlete just harness the power of discipline. One superpower that you can have to manifest your dreams into reality

About the Author:

Shrikant Jha is an experienced developer and an Open-Source enthusiast. He is currently pursuing B.Tech from Galgotias University and hails from Agra. He has always been passionate about hackathons and competitive coding. In his leisure time, he loves to read mythological books and practice yoga.