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Dear God… Let This Exam Be As Kind As I’ve Been To My Students

After more than a decade in the academia, I can honestly say I’ve enjoyed almost every part of the profession be it teaching, mentoring students, interactive classroom discussions, projects supervision, and those beautiful moments when a student finally understands a difficult concept. Well almost every part… except one. Marking examination scripts...   Many lecturers already knows this struggle. Those tall piles of answer sheets staring back at you like they have a personal grudge... Often containing handwritings that look like footballers autographs, so difficult to read.  At some point you begin to wonder whether you are marking an exam script or trying to decode ancient manuscripts newly discovered by archaeologists from the times of Tsumburbura and Barbushe.  Then comes the internal debate between “Did the student really understand this?” and “Maybe I should give some marks for effort, for grammar, for neatness, etc” aka "let my people go."  Wel...
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Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

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First published in 1937. This is among the top books every entrepreneur should read. I lost my first copy of the book before I ever read it. That was more than 15years ago (before I made the painful realization of how humans treat borrowed books 🙂). Now I also have an audio (of the concise), which I often listen to while driving.

The author was tasked by the great entrepreneur (Andrew Carnegie) to write a book on what made a successful person succeed, and he spent 20 years researching and interviewing every great name of the day (Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, etc), alongside lots of others who failed (because it is crucial to understand what doesn't work also). The outcome of his work is this abounding book.

One of the funniest things about the book is how easily the reader is being judged for looking for a quick fix to riches. Funnier is the mantra of the book, constantly nagging on the fact that there's no easy way to getting money. Nothing is easy, nothing is free. You have to pay the price in full and as at when due. More so, the book delves into cultivating the habits that'll enable one to be successful in life.

Upshot: Desire, believe, persist, act and succeed. Always remember that a quitter never wins and a winner never quits.                     

Favorite Quote: "The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat".

Caution: Towards the end of the book, the author was engaged in some mystical musings that makes him seem absurd. He was constantly hosting imaginary meetings with great achievers of his time (Carnegie, Edison, Rockefeller etc) placing himself as the chairperson of the occasions. Anyways, who am I to judge. That's the power of self belief. 

                        

                   SKI 25.06.2020

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