Chapter 14Managing Your Toughest Adversary—Your Mind!
One of the most critical elements to master in the journey of preparing for top universities is your mind.
My competitive streak in academics began in Year 1. I was five years old and thought that school was a pretty fun activity and that given I didn't really have much choice in the matter of whether I went or not, I may as well enjoy it. At the end of the school year, one of my friends received the general excellence prize and I received a prize for “written language.” I was quite sure that I could be a strong academic student and could have won this vaguely determined “general excellence prize” and so as Year 2 began, I took my academics extra seriously.
From then on throughout primary ...
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