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the toppers to be associated with them and you are getting
demotivated for no reason.

Who should attend coaching classes or tutorials?
Those students who cannot motivate themselves to study
consistently every day must go for coaching; those who cannot be
regular, those who have had very basic education in schools and
colleges, those who know nothing about the subject, do not have any
sort of guidance, or those who have very less time left for the
preparation of examinations. Coaching will definitely be of great help
in all these conditions but remember your target can be achieved

without coaching also. Whatever situation or condition you are in, it
is okay and you can still do great. It could have been worse. There
are a lot of people who are in a much worse state than you.

For example, you have this belief that if you had an air-conditioned

room you would have been able to study better. And another student
who has an air-conditioned room would be wishing to study in an
open space. The “ifs” that surround our thoughts stop us from
excelling in our areas and achieving our targets. We always give
ourselves the excuse that: in that situation, I would have been able
to give a better output. The ‘If’ becomes a shackle and chains us
down, it stops us from giving wings to our dreams. If I had a library

near my house, if I had a friend to help me in my studies, if I were
this and that. There is no end to these ‘ifs.’

You are never going to get a perfect condition or environment to
study. If you look at yourself from a different perspective, your
situation is a perfect one for many others. And another thing—once

you have one wish fulfilled, another will take birth and your definition
of perfection will keep on changing. Remember: “Imperfection is
perfection to a beautiful perspective.”

So far, we have discussed about those 1 per cent of candidates who
clear the examinations. But the remaining 99 per cent are no less
than the successful ones. There can be several reasons behind their

failure. It is possible that one might have failed the exam due to lack