Academic Achievement Is Not Destiny

Academic achievement is not destiny.

When I did my final year of school the top courses on offer for the highest ranking students were Doctor or Engineer.

It was a given that if you got the marks you would do one of these.

Even as a dumb 17-year-old (and I was dumb!)

it seemed to me that with all the parental and societal pressures to enrol in the top course.

The top academic kids had fewer options open to them than lower academic achievers like me.

The system did a very good job of making me feel inadequate. But I made it through ok.

So if you’re struggling with this sort of stuff or you have kids struggling with it

know that

Academic achievement is not destiny.

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If we haven’t met yet…

I never considered myself good at change until I went from

-free-range kid to army sniper

-home movies to National Geographic cameraman

-fumbling card tricks to a professional magician

-never swinging a hammer to building a home

-high school dropout to published author

-business illiterate to building & selling a business

-stutterer to motivational speaker

Turns out I know how to change and I know how to make it simple so you can do it too.

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