CLASSROOM OR SCHOOL OF LIFE

Being top of your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be the top of your life.

You can graduate as the best student in your class but that does not guarantee that you will make more money than your other contemporaries that you started out together with in life. The truth of the matter is that as you are graduating as the best student in your class do not translate you to being the best in your chosen field of career. There is far more to success than this. The fact of life is that success requires more than the ability to understand a concept, memorise it and reproduce such concept in an examination.

School usually rewards people for their memories while Life rewards people for their imaginations; School rewards caution while Life rewards daring; School hails those who live by the rules while Life exalts those who break those rules and set new ones.

We should not misconstrued the above to mean that it is wrong for people to go to school and study hard but the truth of the matter is that you should not sacrifice the success of your life on the altar of making First Grades in School.

As someone that wants to go far in life, you do not need to limit yourself to the four walls of the classroom in order to succeed but rather think and explore doing something more practical in life. Learn to take up Leadership position. Venture into business while you care less if it succeeds or fails while you learn from your mistakes and improve on it. Learn to read other books and articles even outside your chosen field of career in an attempt to broaden your mind!

To make it big in Life therefore, think less of becoming an excellent student alone but think more of becoming an excellent person in Life.

… In other words, make the “WORLD YOUR CLASSROOM!”

Moses Durodola