🧠 Your Mindset is EVERYTHING!

The greatest differentiator of whether you’ll succeed in achieving your desired ATAR or not, is your mindset.

Your mindset is so important, that even if you were to have the best study techniques, the most comprehensive notes and all the motivation/discipline in the world…

YOU’LL STILL PERFORM BADLY!

And yet, despite it’s importance, students will neglect it completely.

Don’t be like the other students.

In this post, I’ll go over why your mindset is so important and the 3 mindsets to adopt if you want to achieve a high ATAR.

This and the upcoming posts are easily the most important ones of ATAR Digest, so be sure to read through this completely and take some notes!

Table of Contents

• Your ATAR = Your Mindset

• Adopt these 3 Mindsets for a 90+ ATAR

  • 1. Autonomous

  • 2. Competitive

  • 3. Growth

• The only limit is the one you set for yourself

• ✅ Action Steps for the Week

Your ATAR = Your Mindset

Your mindset impacts how you think of everything around you. So, if you have a poor mindset, then the way you approach your studies and year 11/12 as a whole will be poor too.

This is the number 1 difference between a successful and unsuccessful student.

• When successful students face a setback, like doing poorly in an exam, they see this as a chance for growth. They learn from their mistakes, get better and then smash the next exam.

• But for unsuccessful students, whenever they face a setback they get absolutely destroyed. They throw in the towel. They give up!

This all has to do with their mindsets.

The successful student believes that through failure they can get better and improve. They believe that they need to now put in more work and fix themselves.

The unsuccessful student believes that because they failed, they’re stupid now and can’t achieve a 90+ ATAR.

Your mindset is the foundation of all success. It’s the foundation of your ATAR!

Adopt these 3 Mindsets for a 90+ ATAR

1. Autonomous

Although the ATAR number itself is out of your control…

You and you ALONE are in control of how much effort, time, energy and focus you put towards achieving your goals — NOT YOUR TEACHERS OR CLASSMATES.

You need to stop blaming other people.

I am not saying that there is no such thing as a bad teacher, bad school and bad classmates.

I am saying that DESPITE having these bad circumstances, you must believe that you are still the one who has control over it.

Take full responsibility and accountability for everything!

2. Competitive

The ATAR is a rank and is therefore highly competitive.

So, in order to score a ‘90+ ATAR’, you need to beat 90% of other students.

How do you beat these other students?

Be competitive!

When you have this mindset, the work and effort you put in is next level.

And if you want to come out on top and achieve a 90+ ATAR, then you’ll need to be doing next level things!

This is a video I listen to ALL the time, and I think you should too:

3. Growth

Just because you don’t understand something now, it doesn’t mean you won’t forever.

Just because you are terrible at maths, it doesn’t make you stupid!

It just means that you haven’t properly learned it yet and you need to practice more.

Don’t limit yourself by thinking that you’re ‘stupid’ or that other people are smarter than you.

Truly believe that you can achieve anything in life and that you can win in anything that you do - no matter how bad you’ve been at it in the past.

The only limit is the one you set for yourself

The only person who is stopping you from success is YOU.

You have no excuses to not scoring your dream ATAR.

I hear students all the time complaining and saying:

• ‘I don’t go to a good school’

• ‘My teacher is terrible and doesn’t know how to teach’

• ‘My subjects don’t scale well’

And so many other statements.

But guess what?

I had ALL of these issues myself, and yet I ended up scoring in the top 2% of the state.

If I had said those things to myself when I was in year 11 and 12, would I have been able to succeed?

No.

Why?

Because when you tell yourself excuses and reasons why you can’t achieve something, you’ve subconsciously set yourself a boundary.

You have LIMITED your own ability to succeed!

So stop making excuses, put in the work and you’ll achieve a 95+ ATAR (or whatever ATAR you desire).

✅ Action Steps for the Week

1. Reflect on the things you tell yourself and the way you think — Do you have limiting beliefs? Do you think you’re unable to achieve the ATAR that you want? How do you approach failure?

2. Adopt these 3 mindsets

   • Autonomous

   • Competitive

   • Growth

3. Listen to this motivational speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46FPF6pCtY8

4. Watch this quick video: https://www.tiktok.com/@luqmanarabofficial/video/7263354844784725255

🧠 In the next edition, I’ll guide you on how to develop a strong mindset and shatter your limiting beliefs!

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