28/01/2021
Believe in Yourself!
12 Year Lie
A teenager from a single-parent home, close to flunking high school, was asked by his mum to at least sit for the SAT exam. He did, and came back with a 1480/1600 score. His mum asked whether he cheated. He said no. He realised he was smarter than he thought, and decided to go to college. Eventually he graduated from an ivy league school, and went on to become a successful magazine entrepreneur.
12 years after that SAT exam which was a turning point in his life, the exam board sent him a letter to inform him that he had been sent wrong results. His actual score was 740/1600.
You may think that a clerical mistake changed his life. What changed his life was his own expectations of himself. When he saw himself as an achiever instead of a failure, he started doing what achievers did, and stopped doing what failures did. And that made all the difference.
If you want performing employees, make them believe they are achievers, not failures. Start with you.
