As GCE odinary level examanination (Grade 10 & 11 (usually ages 15-16)) results released today, Our parents show an obsession on As and Good grades. For years, society has placed a disgustingly large stigma on bad grades and an overwhelming importance on good grades. There’s a predisposed instinct to strive for A’s and cast anything lower to the side, to deem as unworthy. Well, it’s time to let the children learn that it’s okay not to be an A student, it’s okay to fail. Because here’s a little secret the older generations are unwilling to divulge to you: it doesn’t matter. Because The Ones Who Have Bad Grades Are Often The Ones Who Are Most Successful, From Einstein to Zuckerberg, its true. To all those tight-ass intellectuals out there, it’s time to get the facts straight. For all those years that you spent cooped up in the library, poring over facts and stats, chemistry, greek mythology and science, the average scoring kids, the ones getting C’s in college, are the ones obtaining the skills that do matter: life experiences. Failing is a life experience. Not getting that A on the exam you spent all night studying for, is an experience. Life experiences are a composite of all the skills necessary to get along in the real world. It’s comprised of all those skills that are only learned through failure and the obstacles of life. In college, it’s all about grades. In the real world, it’s about experience, balls and drive. Because once you get past the first job, no one is ever going to ask you about your GPA or how you did on that Psych 215 final. What matters in the real world is your ability to adapt, innovate and get along. There are no scantron sheets or essay exams. There are no A’s to hold review sessions or to help you practice your presentation. Real life is about how well you can make your way through it, and that’s not something taught in a classroom. The greatest thinkers, leaders and entrepreneurs of our time have been the men to defy the rules and take risks. They were the ones getting C’s or flunking out. However, their “failures’ were not a factor of intelligence, but an inability to be weighed down by grades and superficial markings. Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Tesla, Einstein, Lincoln, Edison, Steve Jobs and Richard Branson, are just a few of the men who achieved unfathomable amounts of knowledge, wealth, status and success without ever really succeeding in a classroom. They are the men, that by society’s standards, had failed. With their passion and intelligence, they were able to change the world with nothing more than a bachelor’s degree (i.e Einstein) and a transcript of failing grades (sometimes not graduating at all). These men understood at an early age that just because society, and everyone around them, placed an excessive amount of importance on grades didn’t mean they were right. The people who do great things are the ones too absorbed in their own ideas to place too much weight on the opinions of others. Why should Steve Jobs or Tesla spend hours studying someone else’s ideas and breakthroughs when he could be out creating his own? What people fail to see in bad grades is the reason behind them. Why is this person not getting an A? Is this person doing something that is better? “Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend it’s whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein So for all of you preparing for finals, or finishing them with a bitter taste in your mouth, this should be reason enough not to worry. If you are ending the semester with C’s and maybe a few F’s, (or Ws in the schools) don’t sweat. There’s plenty of opportunity out there, and it’s the people with the audacity not to care about their grades, tthe ones who don’t spend their lives in the library and bubbling in correct answer sheets, who will rule the world. Because at the end of it all, it’s really about those people with the most passion. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:19:50 +0000
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