Remember the last time you did an exam?
Let’s say O Levels or GCSEs just so we’re all on the same page.
Remember standing outside the school hall before hand, chatting to your mates?
All a bit nervous.
All comparing how much revision we’d done.
Imagine you’re going in and you realise that your best mate is not there.
You check-in with him / her afterwards.
They didn’t go.
“I didn’t want to fail the exam” they say.
“Yeah, but you’d still fail it by not turning up. You’d fail it by even more” would be your understandable reply.
Because exams don’t stop happening if we ignore them.
Weather that be the literal exams that we’re thinking of………
Or what we could choose to see as the exams in life.
Is tempting to shy away from things that we want to do or feel we should……..
Because we’re concerned about them not going well.
About us “failing”.
Or, at least, “doing badly”.
And, more importantly, being seen by others to have “done badly” or “failed”.
But dodging that “exam” doesn’t mean that we’re not then “failing” it.
If anything, it just makes it a certainty.
In life, of course, “success” and “failure” are largely labels of our own application.
With the parameters for each usually barely defined, if at all.
Ultimately, that thing you’re avoiding doing, might not go great.
But I can guarantee it’ll go better than if you don’t even try.
But, in many things, we get unlimited re-sits.
We can learn from what didn’t go so well and do better next time.
And, for many things, we’ll still get the result we want with a suboptimal approach.
Just more slowly.
But still more quickly than not doing it at all.
Always remember that avoiding the exam won’t stop us failing it.
It’ll just make that a certainty.
Much love,
Jon ‘Excellent GCSEs, less good A-Levels’ Hall
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