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Here Is Why ‘C’ Students Usually End Up Being The Most Successful In Life

bradup May 21, 2015 2 min read

Via Elite Daily

Former President George W. Bush made an important and insightful point the other day while delivering the commencement address at Southern Methodist University. He said:

“To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honors, awards and distinctions, I say, ‘Well done.’

And as I like to tell the C students: You too, can be president.”

He was highlighting the fact that grades don’t dictate the rest of your existence, and life is full of limitless possibilities. And he was not wrong.

There are a number of incredibly successful entrepreneurs who didn’t allow their academic experiences to deter them from rising to the top.

Steve Jobs, for example, never finished college. The same is true for Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Likewise, the youngest female billionaire in the world, Elizabeth Holmes, who is revolutionizing medicine, dropped out of Stanford to pursue her dreams. Richard Branson suffered from dyslexia and dropped out of high school at the age of 15.

Simply put, while receiving an education in some form or another is important, there is no single path toward greatness.

Intelligence is subjective, and academic achievement is not always a proper way to measure it. Success as a student is largely dependent on one’s ability to operate within a certain system, but it’s not always the best preparation for the real world.

A person’s character, experiences and connections, not grades, ultimately determine their direction in life.

Success requires passion, perseverance, emotional intelligence and the ability to understand the value of failure.

This is precisely why we see so many “C” students, people we wouldn’t necessarily expect, running the world. They understand what it means to struggle, and often have to overcome more obstacles than many people realize.

This is not to say that getting poor grades guarantees success, but that doing well in school doesn’t mean you’ll always be on top.

In the end, grades are just arbitrary letters on a page. True achievement is a product of making observable and altruistic changes in the real world.

So if you just graduated from high school or college and you didn’t finish with honors, don’t despair. Life is full of ups and downs, and while we learn a great deal in school, the real education occurs after you leave the classroom.

Never stop learning, never give up and remember to enjoy the ride along the way. Always remember that schools are places where former “A” students teach “B” students how to work for the “C” students.
Source: Elite Daily

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