This article is for all of
us who are awaiting results for the examination, which we believe would be the
foundation stone for our career. At this moment, there are a
million things in your head going on as to what is in store at the end of the
day.
Relax, take a chill pill, take a deep breath.
Everything would be fine. Is this result important, Oh yes, it gives me that
dream job, I can have the fancy car, so on and so forth. What would we do if
the result was a damp squib? Don't even bother about it. Seriously, we have a
long way to go and somewhere down the way nobody would even bother about the
marks you scored. How many of us even remember the grades we got at school?
This too will get added to the list.
I say this with my experience of having so
many setbacks in my CA exams. I practically lost count of the number of
attempts I have given. Those days we had to give the details of last three
attempts in CA Exam, and I used to wonder that should I be giving an annexure
to the exam form for all the attempts that I wrote. The only place that my
marks were useful is attend an interview and get my membership certificate,
period. Thereafter, it was only about my technical capabilities and performance
and the marks cards have found a secured place in a file. And after passing my
CA Exams, I don't even know whether anybody asked how much did I score in
Accountancy!.
And believe me these setbacks have only taught
me more than the syllabus per se.
Yes, the results are
important to indicate that we have acquired a certain level of technical skill
set and expect to possess the requisite knowledge to do a job. It does not guarantee that you do well in
your career, since it takes more than being a graduate or getting a certificate
to be a professional. Getting an academic qualification is just one
element, which is essential, but definitely there is a lot more to it. It is a
fact that the dreams to make it big in life were not necessarily by those who
aced their exams but those who had the courage to face the setbacks and overcome
it. People who made big in life did not depend on one thing going right or
wrong, but believed in building a character and imbibe qualities which could
make them achieve what they did and their ability to take risks all along.
Happiness and Sorrowness
is a state of mind. We are conditioned to the fact that 'success = happiness,
failure = sorrowness'. We make a concoction of our emotions and circumstance,
and fall into a mind game inadvertently. Success is a process of forethought,
proper planning, controlled execution, and yes, peppered with a bit of luck.
Somewhere down the line things may go wrong and we fail. But that's not the end
of the journey. We pick ourselves up and go on. Don't lose the sight of the larger picture.
I, at least, would believe that my destiny is
in my hands, the examiner out there can only give marks for the answers I have
given in the paper and not for the answers I have for the questions life throws
at me at all times and not just in those three hours. Everyday is an
examination in life and one has to be prepared for the 'longer format of exam'.
On the flip side, the setbacks have taught me
beyond the syllabus. It has taught me to have perseverance, accept the fact
that not everything would be going in the direction you thought it would (helps
you to do risk management better!),read more in depth and acquire more
knowledge (and thereby know better than others and be a strong competitor to
your peers),as a result be a better professional. Well, it is a lesson well
learnt in life and I am pretty sure that the attitude to take up the challenge
and win over is what is life all about. In the words of James Allen, 'The world
steps aside for the man who knows where he is going'. If you are confident of
what you want in life, nothing can stop you from achieving it. There could be a
delay but it will not be denied.
Thomas Alva Edison said, 'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work'.
What a profound perception. It all depends on how you look at half a glass of
water. You can either say, the glass if half empty or say the glass if half
full of water. Or, might also say, the glass is twice as big as it should have
been. There can always be more than one view.
Exactly, that is the way, I believe one should
look at success and failures. Do not let success get into mind and failure to
your heart. Not all failures are because of our inefficiencies, we might also
be victim of some sad soul's foul play, which is beyond me and you. And the
fact remains that's how it will be. Try again, may be you are going to be a
better person this time.
It is fine to celebrate success but wrong to
be terribly sad for failures. Nobody likes setbacks, but it is not as bad as
people have made out to be. It is all in the mind, give it a better glass
through which one can look, your perspection can change.
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