At the start of every review session, it is part of my routine to motivate students to perform in the best of their ability. I am not a motivational speaker, I simply share to my review students the principles lived by successful individuals who managed to act at their very best. I also throw to them the principles I personally believed that became instrumental in achieving my goals. What I'm sharing are things I picked up from reading, most of it are from entrepreneurs, investors, and sales persons. These things are less heard in engineering because most of the time, engineering students are bombarded with technical information in their stay at the university. My goal is to grow the seed of desire to top the board examination at the heart of my students, but most of all, I want them to live a successful life after their stay in the review center by holding positive mental attitude, a proper mind set, and the right character. Which only means that I want to make an impact to the life of my students in their short stay at the review center.
 

They have six months of rigid preparation for the board exam, and I am talking to them the meaning of success that they may use it to top the board exam. I will share on this post things that I shared inside the review class.
 

Talking about success
Success is the favorable outcome of what we are doing. This is how most people understand the meaning of success. A man is successful because of the productive/financial/positive result of his endeavor. This definition is correct, at least partially. And if we stick our mind to it, we will always look for favorable reward of what we did. We are always expecting something at the end and not be able to appreciate the present.
 

The tennis player Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) once said, "success is a journey not a destination, the doing is usually more important than the outcome". He has been quoted many times with this statement, and I personally believed with this one. Being a journey, our first step towards achieving our goal is a success in its own behalf. We can choose to become successful each day by achieving small things that needs to be done. These small things, though looks insignificant, will accumulate and adds up to the overall outcome. If you want to become a successful person, do it in the daily basis by accomplishing small things that needs to be done for that day. You can accomplish extra ordinary thing by doing ordinary small things one at a time. Do it now and your success starts now and grows progressively each day.
 

With these in mind, we can therefore create a mathematical model for success. Below is my equation for it.
 

Where
dA = differential achievements
dQ = differential quitting
dN = differential negligence
 

And to add more fun, we can also write the equation of success into this form.
 

Where
A = daily achievements
Q = daily quitting
N = daily negligence
 

Do you want to top the board exam? Make your small but daily achievements approach to positive infinity while making your quitting and negligence approach to zero. Good luck!