there was not one person in my class
that had consistently beaten the grades that i was getting
this had nothing to do with talent it had everything to do
with effort that was all it was my bachelor's degree took three
years three years later if you want numbers 50 exams later
30 assignments later 10 powerpoint presentations later
and no one beat me three straight years
and i put 100 effort into all of them and that's the only thing that kept me
at the top because that's all i ever knew i had no
business coming in second or coming in third
there was no other person in that class willing to
give up what i was willing to give up there was no other person in that class
willing to sacrifice what i sacrificed
i'm just sharing my story to tell you all that
it can be done you need to destroy the self-imposed limitations i hear it
every day from people just like you they tell me i'm just not
smart enough to get the highest grades i'm just not wired that way but it's
that exact mindset that is the only thing stopping
you it's the only thing stopping you from
achieving phenomenal grades
it was the effort that i knew would take me to the top
it was the effort that i knew would get me the best job after graduation
it was the effort that i knew would take care of my family financially
it was the effort that was between me and success and i knew that
i knew that no one could give me that effort it was a waste of time trying to
find it externally effort can only come internally
my mom couldn't give me it my lecturers or friends couldn't give me it it was
all down to me
there are two sides of pain that i don't think a lot of people really understand
there's one side of pain that's the suffering
and discomfort side of pain that's the side where you force yourself
to wake up in the morning when your whole body is telling you to
have a lie in it's the side of pain where you have to
force yourself to study when your friends are calling you to
hang out it's the side of pain when you get your
exam results back but you're disappointed because you felt
like you deserved better but then there's another side of pain
that's called effort it's called glory it's called if you can find a way
to push through pain there's something great on the
other side of it and if you never tap into it it's
because the first time you felt it you back off the first time you felt it
your natural reaction is to back away it's too much we rationalize with
ourselves to where we automatically stop as soon
as we begin to feel the pain it's why so many of us give up in life
so quickly it's why kids have a problem finishing things because as soon as they
feel a small bit of discomfort or things they
don't immediately like they're gone i
can't do it anymore but suppose i told you
the craziest pain of my life is the reason i'm standing here today
i dare you to take a little pain you're not gonna die just because you
had to study it's not dangerous it's nothing compared
to what our ancestors had to go through it's nothing compared to what people are
experiencing in war zones go through it embrace it it's the only
way you're going to reach success the guys
that have already reached success jeff bezos
elon musk oprah winfrey they've all experienced phenomenal amounts of
pain to get to where they are today because
the pain is temporary it might last for a few
minutes all day or even the rest of the year
but eventually you'll come out the other side
stronger than you were before but if you quit that pain
is going to last forever
as les brown puts it you have to say yes to your life yes to your dreams
yes to you yes to your studying it doesn't matter how many times you
failed doesn't matter how many mistakes you've endured
doesn't matter about your defeats doesn't matter about what you've done
you know you can do more than what you've been doing
you know that there's some exceptional work ethic within you
that you haven't brought out of you yet see
if you look at your life and if you're not getting what you want
you owe it to yourself to do something differently
if you're not getting the grades you want if you're not performing where you
think you're capable of if that's what it is then you owe it to
yourself to start strategically working to change
your direction you know what most people will do
most people will fight change as if change is worse than what they're
experiencing most people will not challenge the
unknown they just won't step out there but life isn't like that it's not how
you grow so as you look at your life you think
i'm not getting what i want begin to know that whatever it takes for you
to create that you've got that within you
you've got that you've got genius in you you've got intelligence in you
you've got creativeness in you you've got self-discipline
in you if you decide to take the initiative to
change the current quality of your life then you will find that the universe is
on your side
and you can make that decision today right now
as soon as this video ends go and get your textbooks
and spend an extra one hour studying tonight
spend a bit less time watching tv tonight
spend a bit longer preparing for tomorrow
studying it's these small actions that if taken on a daily basis
accumulate into big results the small
winds throughout the day consistently and then
these actions turn into bigger actions maybe you start studying an extra two
hours a day or an extra three to four hours a day
you've just got to start and that's the hardest part
but once productive habits start to form you'll see the results for yourself
ed milot one of the top peak performance experts on the planet explains it like
this failure and setbacks students quitting
failing the exams having retakes dropping out it's all
going to happen just get ready don't give in to that
stuff don't give in to the fears don't give in
to the setbacks you're gonna have failures it's part of
the journey and when you get weak when your
classmates give up when your friends tell you you shouldn't
be studying so much you remember why you're doing it start
to stand up a little taller start to walk more confidently start
becoming the best version of you you can do it quietly in your own way
you can do it in the way you want but somehow they gotta look at you and
think okay i ain't gonna mess with that one
you're gonna have to put up with some failures you're gonna have to put
yourself into some uncomfortable places listen to me do it
put yourself into an uncomfortable place don't negotiate don't try to navigate in
your head
now will it be turbulent yes will it be easy
absolutely not will you make a lot of mistakes
yes but you owe it to you
you owe you
you