“Change will begin the moment you take
ownership of your thoughts and actions and stop making excuses.” ~~Linda A.
Your life is in your hand and it perfectly
moves the way you wanted. The said luck factor or the noise as we call it in
management language does not play a major role in life. Things and your life are
shaped in a way you want and you are the one who can work for it. Life is a
blend of success and failures and there is no one who has always seen success
and no failure in life. Failing is also compulsory and it only motivates to
perform better learning from the mistakes that have been made. A person
improves a lot by learning from his failures. Similarly loosing exam by an inch
should not lead to any trauma. It’s just that you did not performed well and
every exam looks for the best. There is always a next chance.
SSB is one such exam where they look for a
perfect job fit in the industry and no relaxation is given in this regard
because of the nature of job. My mentees always ask me that I could not
understand why I failed when I performed things all right. And to my surprise
when I analyse individually their stories or sentences I find they have written
flashy things. Please remember that psychology round at SSB is not a story
writing competition where writing good English will solve the purpose. You have
to write things understanding your personality. Please remember the following:
- Representing your OLQ’s is necessary and
it’s the work of psychologist to extract that. You need not insert things
necessarily.
- I have seen my mentees introducing extra
characters, things that are not even required. I don’t know where they get
these things from.
- Each given picture has a hidden meaning and
those 30 seconds given to analyse a picture are very crucial to understand that
meaning. Once that is done nothing is mystery.
- But in actual what happens is that people
ask me to suggest a good book or a page where they can have ready made
solutions. I don’t understand how stories written by others can fit their
personality.
- Self-introspection is never done by the
youth these days and they want ready-made preparation that actually might cause
a disaster. Learning common things in large groups is also not needed.
- Either introspect yourself and apply change
to your personality or look for some expert who can take care of you
individually for personality improvement.
SSB is nothing but revealing your true self
to the assessors. Tell me is this tough? Why do u want to modify and falsify
things? Still If you have any confusion or feel to take individual assessment
of personality for OLQs / improvement or prepare from your place itself through
one to one interaction through my mentoring / counselling program drop me a
mail at jayendrapsingh@gmail.com
or add me on FB and drop in a message. It would be a pleasure to help and
resolve queries and clear doubts and help in improving our youth who are just
getting ready to safe our borders and nation with pride.
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Jayendra Singh, Editorial Team
Jayendra is pursuing MBA from IIM Ranchi and is a die heart counsellor for defence aspirants. He was recommended in the first attempt for Indian navy UES entry and is willing to help aspirants to make use of his experience in this field.