Have you ever failed
in your life? Failure in the sense, that after having planned and put in all
your best efforts into something, you end up as a loser!! Yes?
In Australia, if you are trying
for an opportunity in the army, your application would be rejected, if you have
never failed in your life. The Australian army believes that people, who have
failed at least once and succeed in recovering from the same, would serve as
better candidates than those who have never failed in their life.
Does the professional
education system in our country provide you a platform to fail? There is seldom any
scope for challenge. However this should not prevent you from creating
challenging platforms and experiment things which are often labeled as “out of the
syllabus”.
Student associations,
professional chapters/societies/clubs are various platforms where you can
experiment things while in campus. You may commit mistakes or even fail in your
initial attempts. Yet, you can learn how to rectify your mistakes and eventually
reach a stage where you would no longer commit the same ones in future. If you
succeed in implementing this attitude, you would hardly make mistakes, when you
begin to work as a professional! So invest your time effectively and make full
use of the opportunities available in the campus. Remember, the world has
wonderful ways of rewarding you for all such investments!
riji.n@ictkerala.org
