RULE 55
Pick what you enjoy
Remember how miserable it was at school being made to study Maths, or History, or Needlework, or whatever it was you hated? It was so hard to make yourself focus, and the things you were supposed to be learning just took so long to absorb it was painful.
Well this time you’re doing it for you, so you can wave a cheery goodbye to Geography or PE, and pick a subject you fancy. Yep, anything at all. You’re welcome to go back and study Macbeth, or magnetism, or ox-bow lakes if you’d like to. But equally you can go for something obscure, non-academic, esoteric, unexpected – it’s up to you now and anything goes.
The problem at school was that you weren’t interested in literature or Latin or art, or at least not in the way ...
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