<p>Most people realize their lack of success at tech deals with a fundamental flaw in the notions of what they are up against.</p>
<p>Most people will be challenged in a way that they have never been before. Its not how smart they are. The fact is that they cant deal with the emotional exhaustment.</p>
<p>Case in point. </p>
<p>Example, Bill just came back from a calc 2 test. He had been studying over the whole weekend. He thought he was going to do well. Realized he studied everything that was not on the test. Tomorrow he has a computer science. He has no energy now because he came back from the test deafeated. He doesnt care what happens to his grade at this point. All he can think about is getting through the test cycle and then passing out. Makes perfect sense to him by that point. </p>
<p>Entered Tech this way. I always thought learning could be done the night before the test. </p>
<p>How wrong I was.</p>
<p>At tech, it is less about how smart you are and the more machine you become. Period. I started getting A's in my classes when I could get to the test and not even have to think about what to do. That is the edge you need.</p>
<p>How develop the edge? </p>
<p>Step 1:Devalue yourself.</p>
<p>The way I did this was to 1,: suck it all the f-up. That meant if the next 3 weekends were going to be spend mastering the material then damn straight I was going to get it done. </p>
<p>Doing this destroyed whatever life I had. It will destroy yours to and most people cant do it. Most guys feel pretty bad they cant get laid. Feeling sorry for yourself is the best way to find yourself under the average for every test.</p>
<p>Step 2: Work capacity.</p>
<p>What good is car if it can go super fast, but cant go very far? Pretty much what tech is like. Kids here were mostly smart and breezed through, never understood the first thing about perservering when the going gets tough. Your number one mission at tech should be a paradigm shift in your mind that there will always be people who will go for it during the test while you are contemplating if this was a bad mistake coming here. </p>
<p>Step 3: Positive attiude.</p>
<p>Me as wall as others have come back from the brink of whatever is out there where you dont know *** is going to happen in your life because all you have been met is with failure after failure, the first time you got off your mom's tit. </p>
<p>Like me you would first make excuses of why it didint go well, then go chill with your buddies. Then it turns into sorrow drunk after a while. Then by the end of the semster, depression that you cant achieve what you would like.</p>
<p>Most people would quit trying by this point to fix it. They dont know how.</p>
<p>Secret: All there is to it is to clench your jaw, and try to vizulize how hard it will be and how many hours you will put in, then go for it. Dont look back. I assure you will face setbacks your first couple of months maybe semesters, like me, like almost everybody here. The greatest life lessons I learned about who I was and what was capable, where the moments where things were total in the ****z, but pulled through somehow. </p>
<p>Most of you reading this wont be able to do this, because subconsiously your self efficacy is too high for you to think you would ever be in my shoes. Remember you are in the big boys league now.</p>