I read a short reflection titled, “Be a Believer to Be an ACHIEVER” recently and I thought I would share my reflections on it.  It was a story about a University professor who offered his medical students an automatic B grade instead of sitting their final examination. Of course the majority of the class decided to take the B grade and they left the examination room. However, seven students decided to stay and complete the examination. The professor then handed out the final exam. There were two sentences typed on the paper:

'Congratulations, you have just received an 'A' in this class. Keep believing in yourself.'

The same is true for students of real life. The 'A' students are those who believe in what they're doing because they've learned from both successes and failures and they work hard and persevere until they succeed. They adopt the words “Why can’t I” instead of the words “I Can’t”. They've absorbed life's lessons, whether from formal education or the school of hard knocks, and become better people. I challenge all students at San Clemente to never let the biggest limit be themselves. Take a cue from Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest:

'It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.'

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