There is no secret to success

Earlier this year, I went to school that I used to attend for 5 years. Despite all the ups and downs that happened to me at that particular school, I managed to spend 5 years in that school -completing my final exam. Earlier this year, I went there for my 2 weeks compulsory attachment to any institute, more or less like a community project. Why did I choose the school? I’m not a teacher-to-be, and I don’t think my future career would have something to do with the school.  No reason - just because it’s nearby I decided to just spend my time at my beloved hometown. I used to be there for 5 years, how come 2 weeks will make any difference? Haha...

During my short course there, I encountered some students who asked me, “Do you know the secrets to success, sister?” Ehm, and I was like, uh-oh. Honestly speaking, I’m nobody to talk about success and stuffs. For a 17 year-old student who asked 22 year-old sister about things like that, I was pretty sure that she would expect something brilliant coming from my mouth. Damn, I don’t know of any secrets. And even the word SUCCESS is too subjective to me. Girl, what matter the most is how you define the SUCCESS itself.  With what achievement would you consider yourself successful person? With straight A’s in the exam, or being able to go to college, or just simply by being able to understand what the teacher  taught you in the class? Well, everything depends on you. 

"So you define success."

You people always mentioned, “Do not study hard, but instead study smart!” Uptill today, I myself don’t really comprehend what’s the real meaning of study smart. It’s easy to mention but hard to achieve or it’s even harder to know how to study smart. 

Again, there’s no secret to success. What do you need is a lot of practice and maybe some luck I guess. For me, learning is a skill. And when I mentioned skills, automatically it comes with a LOT of practice. To master the skills, you need to practice. Urgh, what a redundant  here.  The brain need to be trained to accept the learning skills. Let’s take hearing and speech for example. Let’s say if I go to foreign country and met the natives there and all of them speaking in the language that I don’t know. I can hear what they say pretty clearly, but I won’t understand a word and definitely I won’t be able to speak in their language. It’s because I never learn it, and my brain would never understand the meaning of it. Unless when you learn and practise, things would be the opposite. Yeah, learning needs practice.

First of all, objective. When you learn something, the aim should come first. Doing something without aim is equal to wasting the precious time. To do well in archery, we need to aim the target. To begin with a research paper, there should be the purpose of the research. There must be motive(s) in doing things. To bow down and pray, there must be intention(s). It’s the intention, aim, objective and purpose that matters the most in everything that we do. It’s the intention that would determine what you choose next. And the journey continues....

However, when you don't have the goal or intentions, things would become very bad. And that's the reason why my first and second year in university felt like a dead soul since I kept wondering around trying to know how to study. My exam result was just enough for me to pass and continue to the next year. Eversince I moved to the 3rd year, only then I felt the passion and like my future career so much. Yeah, since things are not just about theories here, I felt better since I can relate the previous knowledge with the practical part. By the way, I'm now at the half of the 4th year, there are a lot of things I have learned. 

Yeah, life is quite busy nowadays, but the so-called time management is the important skills to keep me survive as a student. But I don't say that my so-called 'time management' is good. Just, you don't have to take certain things seriously and prioritize things, and I would still be able to enjoy the things I like, for instance watching TV drama and chit-chatting. Huh, whenever I complained to my mom about being so busy and tiresome as student, she would just say, " I told you already, you better be a teacher and teach students, then life would be easier! ' And I was like, "Huh, you told me huh?" Well, this was quite funny. Honestly, teacher is a respected career but nowadays, teachers' work is not as easy as the old days. And I don't think I can handle school students.  There are various kind of students out there and only God knows how hard it would be. At the same time, I salute some of my friends who had chosen the profession as educator since I'm aware that, that is not an easy job. And again with the good intention to educate our future children, I'm pretty sure that the God will ease your way. Err, should I re-consider to be a teacher after graduating or after completing master degree? Well, let's see. There's still a long way to go!

This guy is really something. Sometimes, I had wished the same, to a lesser extend!

Okay, I should stop since I think this is quite draggy. Till then, by-bye!