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A fool (A fixed mindset)

We all love to feel important, to be showered with or immersed in compliments for the good we do, have done or possess. We love feeling like we’re better than anyone or everyone, or to be told we’re the best but we end up being in utter oblivion of the calamity that results from that kind of mentality.

How often do we hear people who always have to include their past achievements just to boost their self-confidence in conversations? Even worse, we could also be guilty. We often celebrate our achievements, and even wish we could feel like this forever. In this age of IoT (Internet of Things), everything is connected and everything that is exposed acquire gobs of recognition. 

There’s utterly nothing wrong about achieving in life but ensure that your achievements and compliments don’t augment your calvaria. The general population strongly believes that there are smart people and dumb people, even worse, others exacerbate this fallacious belief by inferring that some people were born smart. 

It is no secret that everyone wants to be an expert at something, others wish to excel in everything. Some individuals who carry a fixed mindset use their past achievements to boost their confidence before taking on a new challenge, some choose the safe option of not even attempting to face that new challenge due to the stain it might possibly leave on their reputation owing to their vaunted past achievements. The feeling of failing a new endeavor, to them, would be consanguineous to scoring 10% on a test subsequent to the one where they’ve topped the whole class by scoring 98%. A pretty uncongenial series of events, in deed.

It is no secret that the wealthiest individuals are, mostly the ones who were impervious to the judicial system of formal education or, rather, the coin of the realm in the education system of the globe. Those are people who would offer you a list that is equivalent to a scroll in length, of their past failures but still went on until they achieved their long-term goal, and then add another long-term goal to their list. Achieve, and repeat. Whereas the formal education system is contrary to the former. If you fail, you’re considered worthless, incompetent, obsolete, unfit, an utter failure. I would be certain, but I stand tall in being corrected as much as I stand tall in this idea I’ve ascertained, that 99% of the population goes through formal education, and the system becomes deeply embedded in most people’s subconscious minds to a point whereby you see some who were told that they were worthless by their high school teacher, end up perceiving a life of impoverishment as a querencia. They become reluctant to take risks or try to take on new challenges, mostly, that may challenge them mentally owing to being told they were mentally unfit in high school; therefore, it ends up being their devout belief until their demise. Come on, now. You did not become the winning sperm during your predecessors’ conclusion of boff, to waste your life like that. 

A fool is not who fails; it is who eschews failure. 
Live your life to the fullest. Fail and persist until you become a guru in whatever you are pursuing.

Remember: You can be whatever you want to be, in life. However, I implore you not to be a fool…

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