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School is said to be the place whereby majority of the people get to learn knowledge and pick up new skills vital required for independence when a person reaches a certain age.

School is not only a place but just one of the many sources whereby knowledge are being passed down and practiced. Only those who really knows the importance and cherish what was imparted to them will have a taste of success in small amounts when they are still learning.

Knowledge need not be taught only in schools, but also in private courses, from a group of company, like-minded peers, friends and colleges.

School is like a specialized place whereby an individual decides which course, and future is suited for him or her before starting education in the school.

Majority of the students who graduate from any school both locally and globally end up working as employees instead of being an employer if not an entrepreneur is because of a few reasons when they made foolish decisions when choosing the school that they want to learn from.

Stupid reasons are as follows:

1. Following your common group of friends to study in the same school.
2. Wanting to have more chances to meet and hook up with either a fellow student or senior in a particular course (following their idol).
3. Selecting a course based on the prospects (guaranteed immediate income upon graduation)
4. Not knowing what to choose, just obey parents orders, get into any school, as long as can upgrade qualification will do
5. Not to be left behind, refusing to retain due to poor results, want to be on the same pace with your peers.

Those are the few reasons that i can think of, if not heard from other people’s conversation (people who spoke loudly on public transport) and in news reports.

That is why most people failed in the long term, and which is why there is such a term as job-hopping, and career switch when students become adults and they realize their mistakes of poor decision making and for having wasted precious time during youth for making poor if not wrong decisions.

Only to regret and relearn by signing up with private courses after work to catch up, and not repeat the same mistakes again.

It goes to show that a wrong first step (decision) will lead to many wrong steps following which. In short, one wrong leads to more wrong.

On the contrary, look at all the bright, top results students, why and how did they manage to score top grade?

Time after time, proven tested, and never wrong, the replies are the same. Those top scorers have a clear goal, course, and future that they want to pursue, thus they work damn hard to get to where they are when results are released, such is a clear reflection of even working society, where 99 percent of the people either studying or working and even parenting kids don’t have a clear idea on why they are doing this and that for what reasons and if they are doing it just to be normal (herding behavior – which is normal of not wanting to be left out) versus those 1 percent of the top students who know exactly where, when, how, and what is required for them to secure the slot for the course that they want.

With a clear goal, knowing the entry qualifications, and fighting their efforts to get in, that’s what schools are actually built for, to impart knowledge to those who really want it, and not for people who just go through the process without asking what is it that they really want and if the future of graduating with that certification of a specific field is what they like.

A parent’s wrong decision, pushing a children to study in schools just for face, ego and pride to bring up the family status at their own children’s expense of bright prospects, by forcing them to study stuffs that they don’t like.

There’s too much of a nasty consequences already out there, but there is however one extreme positive result from this if the child learns to fully utilize what they have learn and put it to good use. That brilliant example will be Jay Chou, who was actually forced by his mom to study all the different music instruments against his will. But luckily, he managed to find a good mentor – Jacky Wu who gave him a excellent opportunity to showcase his talents, and showed him the ropes to the music industry.

To sum up, you can learn anything you want, even if it is being forced upon you. You can succeed as long as you know how to utilize the knowledge to your benefits, and finding a mentor who will show you the ropes coupled with his excellent strong knowledge of music contributing to his success, which is why he named one of his early albums after his mother.

Why people fail even after education is due to the fact they don’t know how to use their knowledge to their advance. Being intelligent isn’t enough, you will have to be street-smart.

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Momentum is the rhythm or the tempo at which everyone pace us at getting things done.

This momentum is something which is crucial yet mostly being overlooked by majority of us as we work towards success.

Success is a sum of all previous experiences learn from mistakes, advices from mentors, advisers, coach, and consultants in various fields that each of us have encountered in the quest to reach the finishing line at the top.

Momentum is important, mostly remembered by athletics because they need to maintain their momentum to maintain either their leading and current position to prevent rivals from overtaking. The same goes to business and any other employments; it’s unanimous across all variations of employments.

Once you identified your own pace, you should follow it, get used to the pace, and improve on your pace to out-run the competitor just ahead of you. A method which I previously used in running back in the school days was to use my closest competitor within my vision and doing whatever it takes to get used to the pace of my competitor and storing energy at the last hundred to two hundred meters towards the goal for the final burst catching them off guard.

Discipline, determination and perseverance is needed to maintain, your momentum.

To ensure success, the other trick which is used sometimes to catch competitors who are hot on your tails are to set a below average pace for them to follow you  letting them getting used to the pace which you have set, once any competitor serves as your highest risk of overtaking your preferred pace then only reveal your actual own pace when should be your own pace sufficiently to win, don’t reveal your true potential to your competitors so you will always maintain a hidden winning formula or deep storage of energy required to take your competitors by surprise.

Don’t always surprise your competitors using the above strategy else they will put you on their highest priority to over-take increasing your competition which is why in business benchmarking is always seen in advertising campaigns, just doing what is sufficient to out-run the closest competitor to clinch the championship.

Here’s a real –life example in the music industry: Jay Chou, who was introduced into the Taiwan music industry by his buddy. Taking the music industry by storm, creating a tornado effect by releasing self-written, recorded songs all done by him in a matter of months.  With more than a few albums released in a matter of months, all done by him personally, he soon became the musical talent and the leader with huge fans. Do it once, do it right, and revert back to the market practice by releasing an album each year is sufficient to maintain his lead to date.

In the process of it, by showcasing his talents in music, he not only open doors to music, but also he talent in most of the musical instruments which was being forced to picked up by his mom since he was young (correct me if I’m wrong on this). With his success, album has being written to thanks his mom for the hard learning curve since young.

With that, it’s time for you to start identifying you own pace, set the momentum and test run it until you succeed in your field.

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