HOW TO USE THE ENVIRONMENT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE IN ACADEMICS
I am always trying to impress on you the power of your mind and how to use it effectively to solve all your academic problems.
Do you know that it is hard to laugh in an environment where somebody has just died and people there are crying or have come for condolence? Yes! It is true, your mind will not allow you because of the feelings in the environment which it finds itself.
You will observe that habitually happy people tend to make more friends than those who are grumblers or complainers. People tend to gravitate towards happy people because their minds are affected, by them, in a happy fashion. When the mind is influenced in a happy fashion it will begin to create happy feelings.
So always make it a duty to stay around those who already feel the way you will want to feel, so that your mind will be influenced by them to start feeling the same way.
Now, how do you use this knowledge in climbing to the highest point in your academic pursuit? The best way, my dear student, is to make it a habit to always stay in the environment that contains a student or students that fit the description of the kind of student you are aspiring to be.
Let us say the kind of student you will like to be is the type that wakes up early and gets to school early, then the best thing to do will be to make friends with such students. Dear student, being around such students who come to school punctually will help you imbue your environment with the feelings that go with punctuality and soon your mind will turn you into a punctual student.
Dear student, what ever you ‘think’ is easily forgotten, but if you write it down you will more easily remember them because you have it stored in writing. So the last advice I will give to you this lovely, academically sound day, is to write down all the qualities you think an ideal student should have; go out of your way to look for students who have them and do your best to always be in their environment. Your mind will soon transform you into living those kind of lifestyles.
