How To Tackle With Difficulty In Study

HOW TO TACKLE WITH DIFFICULTY IN STUDY

One of the most remarkable aspects of studying human history is that it almost confirms the universal law of nature the most notable achievers usually met with heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed! And the essence of this principle hold good for success in educational life too. For many students study is difficult because majority of subjects especially Science & Math demands higher level of understanding & analysis than what the students have been presently doing have done in the past. Added to this is the widely known sickness of our main stream educational system. Things are taught in schools and colleges so boringly, so mechanically within the bounds of syllabus often under a set of very strict format of administrative disciplines of “Does” & “Don’ts” that most of the students miss the sheer joy of knowing the new stuff which are so much connected with our collective lives. Students start fearing the tough subjects while they develop contempt for the so called easy subject. This is the usual picture in our country save for few exceptional institutions. So there is an inbuilt stress in curricular. 

You can’t deal with the subjects with the subjects without effective resources like good text books, competent teachers, effective study habits, on a regular basis good physical & mental strength etc. You need to “work on” But the situation doesn’t end here –you need to “work on” the subjects. History will demand repeated revisions of main points, Physics especially mechanics & electrodynamics will demand constant engagement with higher & higher levels of problems , chemistry will demand understanding various theories & models and remembering long list of key facts, Mathematics will demand repeated attack on problem of different kinds though they may be at same level & so on problems of different kinds. Each subjects has its own set of requirements which you should know and be very sure that you need to “work on” different subjects in regular and effective manner, no matter what is your financial, social, or intellectual backgrounds. Things will not just happen to you- you will be author of your success and of failure as well. You don’t have a third choice. It just like cycling if you are not paddling you will not stay stationary there for long you fall. So please accept the first important aspects of studying if you ignore this you are going to create mess around you very soon practice persistence.

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in & day out”.  Rajeshwar is a very intelligent student studying science stream in Hyderabad. But he was not born with the abilities what have now become his. There are students whose intelligence may be superior to Rajeshwar but has on remarkable quality that had set him apart from others he would persist. Let me tell you what it means on day today basis. When college got over he would still be there doing problems of physics or mathematics, when its recess hour, he would still be on his seat working over some problems even if he had solved it earlier. Recently his hand fracture & was on bed for a long time & he had to share many work of his family because there was no one else to do that in a family yet his performance did not falter. From outside no one would had sensed the deep & strenuous daily struggle of a determined student for a common eye students like Rajeshwar are termed as “exceptional” but this simplistic admiring approach betrays the vast truth of day today struggle of a determined mind . 

All success stories are story of prolonged persistence however or whatever the situations are so get it straight there is not any shortcut to success. Yes there are definitely many versions of shortcuts for failures. It is not going to be always easy. Manish is an amazing boy of Mumbai. His performance in maths Olympiads had won him much admirations. But look beneath his common glory of success- A problem of Physics is given in a class, when the class fails to react on the possible solutions, the professor takes the marker pen to solve that on the board when a soft voice of aback bench requests him to not solve the problems or provide any hint. The professor agrees. The boy struggles for the whole day. For a week & after 12 days he comes with two sets of solution. This was the truth of Nachiket hard work – things were not easy even for him in the beginning. I remember a line from the famous “Good Father” in which the main character is advised against a risky strike on his opponent to which he replies “ I am not interested in safe & easy things of life because they don’t have much prospects.

CREATE PLAN:-

Planning brings focus to our efforts & focus creates depths & depth gives us strength and we get success because of our strength. Sheena was studying in Kota where here friends knew her because of her “Potentials” but her performance in internal tests of institute was very average. She used to give a peculiar picture- a sensitive mind, quick to grasp but not hard enough to dig deep down the subjects. Her mother, being an alert woman saw this in her & worked systematically to create a plan for everyday so that was followed to the maximum possible extent. This started showing effects – her performance in those internal tests improved dramatically. I will conclude this piece with popular quote of management” If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid more than you do”.