Confession #CKQ469AF — NUSConfessIT

i just got absolutely DESTROYED for a scholarship interview just now so bad that they cut it short. im SUCH A FAILURE.

even though i got into nus, thats nothing worth flexing, you can literally throw a stone up into the air and you'll likely hit someone whose been to nus. even getting a place in nus law, that just seems so unimpressive and bare minimum.

i want to get a government scholarship or go overseas or be a valedictorian, only then will i feel like ive done enough to not be a loser.

looking at friends go to harvard, get PSC or presidents' scholarship so effortlessly and as someone who was their classmate and worked together with them, where did it all go wrong? am i just destined to a life of mediocrity?

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typical mediocore loser mentality

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a life like that isn't worth living

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There’s always going to be someone better than you, you will NEVER be better than everyone. If you want to keep thinking the way you think and compare yourself, just kys

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If you can't accept failure, you can't progress far in life. Imagine telling your future boss this.

Don't cheat yourself by comparing to others. Focus on what next in your life cause trust me there better things to wry about then just grades and academics.

U gonna be working after graduation anyways and idt failure is sth u shld be complaining about when that's gonna be like common once u start work. 🤷‍♂

If u can't accept failure, ask your how are u gonna learn from it and progress?🤨

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U flunked the interview not cos ur shit but because u didnt believe in urself - that made u unconfident and not great to talk to… if u can get into law ur definitely mentally capable enough to hold a convo, but if u spend all ur processing power questioning urself and everything ofc ur gonna be dogshit at chatting in an interview, cos u have no brain/bandwidth left.

Go live life and stop sweating about what others are, and do some soul searching, and find who u are. This is not a competition. Those who compete literally lost the game of life liao. Challenge urself, grow, build. Progress compounds and is exponential- so u might think ur never gonna rch wherever u want but its just gonna be not much and then itll happen all at once. So chill and give urself time, cos u waste more time in the longterm by thinking short term and tryna rush things. Trust the process sounds cliche but its true.

Also dont dismiss emotions as just feeings, sometimes ur gut is telling u something true that you need to hear, and ignoring will just make those feelings worse. So ask yourself why u feel this way- not some surface level shit, but some deep existential shit, as in all the way to questioning ur core principles and beliefs and why they are the way they are(is it parents, environment, media?).

Essentially, start from first principles- once you find ur own true principles to guide u everything falls in line.

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