The first boy or girl in your class is not necessarily the brightest. S/he just has the right attitudes and habits. By changing your attitudes and habits, you can be first in your class as well.
Believe, really believe, you can have good results too.
Remember the ugly duckling? He was the child of a swan whose egg accidentally rolled into a duck’s nest. When he was young he was teased and bullied by the other ducks because they thought he was ugly. Yet when he grew up he matured into a graceful swan, the most beautiful bird of all.
The same might be true of you. You might not consider yourself a good student. May be you haven’t done very well in the past. You may be thinking you are not intelligent enough to do well. But you are wrong.
Herbert Walberg, professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, has conducted major studies on super achieving students. He says, ‘Top grades do not necessarily go to the brightest students.’... ‘Knowing how to make the most of your innate abilities count for more, infinitely more’… ‘In fact, students with high IQ sometimes don’t do as well as classmates with lower IQ. For them, learning comes too easily and they never learn how to buckle down’.
The truth is, all of us have the capacity to attain excellent grades. But we cannot do so, because we do not believe in ourselves. Unless you have this belief, you will not feel the urge to study, which would lead to poor results, and even less belief in yourself in the future. It is a vicious cycle. You need to break the cycle.
