😔 Failure is your best teacher!

Hey there,

In today’s newsletter, I am going to explain to you why failure is your best teacher and how you can use it to your advantage and get closer to success. 

Many students see failure as a bad thing…

They mess up one assessment task and BOOM — they’ve lost all hope to achieve their ambitious ATAR.

They fail a maths exam and BOOM — they now apparently suck at maths and are ‘stupid’.

Does this sound like you?

Do you see failure as something that’s bad?

Do you fear failure?

Well, if your answer is ‘yes’ to any of those questions, I completely understand.

I used to be the exact same.

However, once I changed my mindset on failure I went from getting 70% to 100% in my exams.

I went from D-student to 95+ ATAR.

I went from the bottom of the class to DUX of the year.

I now want you to do the same, so let’s do this!

Failure is your friend

Let me just get straight to the point and ask you something:

If you don’t fail, how in the world will you improve?!

If you don’t mess up that maths exam or do poorly in your essay, how will you get better at those subjects?

It doesn’t make any sense right?

There are so many students that come up to me and say things like “I didn’t do well in term 1. I got 50% in my assessment tasks”

And they are upset.

They are worried.

They throw their dreams of scoring a high ATAR out the window (even though they were super confident at one point!).

You must understand that when you fail at anything, you’re given an opportunity to learn and grow!

Failure teaches you what you need to fix to get to the next level and achieve success.

And think about it for a minute…

The success in your life has been a result of your past failures!

Let me give you some examples

• When you were a baby, you failed to walk. You tried, then fell. You tried, then fell. But what happened eventually?

• When you were learning how to ride a bike, did you not fall multiple times?

Think back to the amount of times you’ve actually failed but then ended up succeeding.

Why not apply this to your school work?

The difference between top and low-performing students

Both top and low-performing students fail.

Failure is inevitable — whatever failure means to you (i.e. a ‘fail’ for one person might not necessarily be the same ‘fail’ for another).

But what’s the difference between the top- and low-performing students?

It’s their reaction.

Top-performing students get back up and use their failures to improve for the future.

Low-performing students stay down and try to ignore their failures. They don’t confront them and use them to get better.

It’s that simple.

How you should look at failure

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Without failing in some way, shape, or form, you cannot succeed.

FAILURE IS YOUR BEST TEACHER!

So the next time you fail, instead of getting annoyed by it and feeling despair, understand this:

Reflect & ask yourself:

“What lessons can I learn from this?”

And when you do fail, do not EVER say:

“I am a failure”

Say:

“I failed, but for a good reason. Let’s figure out this reason so that I can improve”

When you redefine failure like this, you’ll get closer to success!

✅ Action Steps to Take

1. Learn from your past failures — if you didn’t do well in any of your assessment tasks so far, don’t just throw them off to the side and move on. Analyse them, analyse yourself and figure out why you didn’t do well. Then, improve from there.

2. Change your language — the next time you fail, don’t say ‘I am failure’ and get upset about it. Instead, say ‘I failed for a good reason. Let’s figure out this reason’.

3. Watch this motivational video —

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The DUX Club is a community of dedicated ATAR students who are hungry for success.

This is a community I’ve recently created…and it’s for free.

What’s inside? 

✅Valuable 95+ ATAR courses that teach you the skills your school doesn't! (COMING SOON)

✅Supportive, non-toxic community of like-minded students

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How do you join?

1. Click on this link 👉️ https://www.skool.com/the-dux-club-4750/about

2. Click ‘Join Group’

3. Make an account

4. You’re in!

I will be hosting a masterclass on how to get ahead during the holidays so that you can come back to school stronger than ever before.

It will be hosted TOMORROW at 1 pm — so don’t miss out!

See you there 💪 

🚨NOTE: This community is only for students who are committed and serious about their success. If that's not you, then don't join.