Page 65 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

only have to keep moving ahead and convert your opportunities into
success.” Try and fail but never fail to try.”

There is another problem that I would like to talk about. During
interviews, these meritorious students or the toppers tend to mention
about those books which they haven’t read themselves. They take
the name of uncommon books just to say something that is different
from others.
And some of them portray their lives as a journey full of struggle and
suffering, only to garner sympathy or respect or importance. Do not
give much importance to such narratives. You don’t have to live a life

like them or have a story like them to get success.
If you watch interviews of a lot of people, you will get bored of
listening to same things again and again and the interviews will not
have any effect on you. This will force you to not follow anything said
by them and you will end up not following something which can be

very crucial to your preparation.

For example, you want to find out which is the best book on Indian
polity, and 10 different people have told you that it is ‘Laxmikanth’.
What you should do is - read it several times. But since you have
heard about it several times you will buy it, but you will get bored of
it, you will not see any point in reading it. You will think that since

everybody is reading it, you have to read something different.

What is the mantra to achieve success in life?
All students study but not everyone studies well—and this is the only
difference between success and failure. Successful people do not
read different books, they read the same books properly, revise it

multiple times- about which you would have heard a thousand times.
Those who do not want to work hard, keep listening to interviews of
several toppers with the hope that they would get some ideas, a
shortcut or an easy way to prepare. But this can never happen—
there is no shortcut to success. Working hard is never thrilling, it is
never sensational, it is no fun. To earn success, you need a calm
mind. You will have to get bored and go through disinteresting

situations to achieve your targets.