BECOMING A FIRST CLASS PERSONALITY IN LIFE

Reasons Why First Class Students Never Become First Class People In Life.

Hardly do first class graduates become first
class personality While in
University,
we often spend too much energy in
acquiring good grades
that we forget to acquire good class personality.
After concentrating all energy in acquiring the
first class grades, we
transform into a society where first class grades
don’t matter much as
having a first class personality.
In school, its easy to read, memorize and pass
exams, but in real life, there
is no sure book of life to progress, no
memorizing, no exams, just you and
your inbuilt capability which require no contest
with anybody.
Those who eventually become big in life are
mostly people who hardly
make good grades in school.
Prof. Abletor Sedofia from University of Ghana
has this to say to us:
“Academic excellence is overrated! Did I just say
that? Oh, yes, I said it.
Being top of your class does not necessarily
guarantee that you will be at
the top of life.
You could graduate as the best student in
Finance but it doesn’t mean you
will make more money than everybody else. The
best graduating Law
student does not necessarily become the best
lawyer.
The fact is life requires more than the ability to
understand a concept,
memorise it and reproduce it in an exam.
School rewards people for their memory. Life
rewards people for their
imagination and innovations. School rewards
caution, life rewards daring.
School hails those who live by the rules. Life
exalts those who break the
rules and set new ones.
So do I mean people shouldn’t study hard in
school? Oh, no, you should.
But don’t sacrifice every other thing on the altar
of First Class. Don’t
limit yourself to the classroom.
Do something practical. Take a leadership
position. Start a business and
fail. That’s a better Entrepreneurship 101.
Join or start an association.
Contest an election and lose.
It will teach something Political Science 101 will
not teach you.
Attend a seminar. …Read books outside the
scope of your course.
Go on missions and win a soul for eternal
rewards. Do something you
believe in! Think less of becoming an excellent
student but think more of
becoming an excellent person. Make the world
your classroom!
Have a great life!

Iwuoha Williams Ifeanyichukwu