² BECOMING AN ACADEMIC ACHIEVER (And Maintaining It) ✿
First of all, have you ever come to wonder how a certain individual's succession came to be?
How were they able to rise on top, eventually catching everyone's attention and receiving all the wealth and glory you could ever wish to be bestowed to yourself. Of course, a lot of people already had answers to such an obvious question. They would say, "he's naturally capable." "he's naturally talented." "it's the GENES." or even, "it's a wealthy privilege." People would often connect an individual's succession with the natural order of things, which is admittedly a fact, but does that also imply that anyone who isn't born with exceptional privileges already tailing after them cannot succeed? I do not think so.
In the matters of academics, which is mostly our primary stepping stone to success, that definitely isn't the case as well. There are several ways to prosper in school, and graduate as an academic achiever, even if you started as a student who was typically greeted with a glaringly number of 75 percent on your report card.
And that is to PERSEVERE.
Cliché, no? Oh, the number of times we've seen this word literally everywhere. But fret not, because the word "persevere" is a generic term. Persevering, conventionally, is an act of pushing through no matter the hurdles you come across. As a student aiming to become one of the academic achievers, persevering is a powerful kind of mindset which allows you to resort to any appropriate means in order to succeed in your goal.
Persevering is the the positivity — the confidence you instill in your head, thinking that everything will be fine. Regardless of the difficulty of the subject. Regardless of your brain's incapability of concentrating, and inserting complicated terms, definitions or formulas in your head for a long of time. Regardless of these frustrating hurdles, you're still capable enough of searching for other ways to deal with your own weakness.
For example:
You will start reviewing your notes as soon as you woke up in the morning in preparation for today's quiz or performance task.
You will start listening carefully to class, taking notes, searching Google to further comprehend the topic.
You will start implementing abstinence on yourself, locking one of the most distracting applications off your home screen, and then turning on the 'Do Not Disturb' mode so that the chats from your friends or the notifications from your favorite personality posting their new content would not disturb you.
You will also start forcing yourself — hypnotizing your brain that Math and Science is indeed A PIECE OF CAKE.
That is perseverance.
But is that all? After all the difficulties you experienced, the hard work, the number of times you prayed, you finally managed to earn yourself a majority of 90+ percent grade in your report card, resulting to an average of 90 percent and you finally got to be one of the academic achievers in your class. Now what? How do we maintain this now?
The simple answer to that, naturally, is to MAINTAIN. An entrepreneur becoming a billionaire after a decade of hardwork, or a singer finally gaining fame won't just stop after that and idle away as they sat on their new, glimmering, golden throne. They will try to MAINTAIN. But how exactly? Rinse and repeat.
After all the success you earned, you cannot start labeling yourself as someone "rich" or "intelligent" or even "iconic". You must not develop the thought that everything will stay, and will always do, because it does not, on the other hand, instantly labeling yourself as such will never bring anything good for you. Be humble.
You will eventually thrist, if you stop filling the drum with water. You will eventually starve, if you stop planting crops on your garden. It happens.
You must do everything again — everything you've done — before you arrived at this point, and develop the habit of working hard to maintain.
By: MARIZZA
