What is the most common reason for students failing be successful in school?

Answer 1

Success is not just straight A's. I knew many students who were not great academically but were quite well-rounded and successful later in life.

Success should not be a school metric; it should be customized for each individual. For example, if my definition of success was to be an All-State Defensive Tackle, I would be a failure! But if my definition of success was to go to college, then yes, I was successful.

To me, the definition of success is two-fold: 1) define your goals and 2) show up! If your goal is to get good grades so that you eventually go to law school, then design your coursework to reflect that goal and then show up to class. If your goal is to get a college football scholarship, then be sure to join the team and use the weight room. If you know what you want to do, you will succeed. And if you just want to survive school before going out into the real world, and you graduate, then you have been successful.

Answer 2

This question is posed with several ambiguities.

How do you define "successful"? Of which students are your inquiring? What do you mean by "failing"? How do you define "common"?

Perhaps learning to use words/language more accurately would contribute to success in school.

Answer 3

The answer is the great fear they have that they are not smart enough to succeed. The solution is to keep trying, regardless of fear and even failure.

Never give up! Giving up because you fear failure or are already convinced you will fail does only one thing – it guarantees failure. Almost every successful person built their success upon a mountain of failure, but no one else ever sees that; all we see is a successful person on top of the world.

Never give up! A failure is a learning opportunity. Keep trying and fail again a new way. Each time you fail, your brain is learning. Remember how you learned to ride a bicycle as a child. You fell! (Failed!) You got back on and fell again! (Failed!) You continued to fall (Failed!) (Failed!) (Failed!) (Failed!) (Failed!) (Failed!) (Failed!) But suddenly you were on the bicycle and wobbling but not falling! (Success!) From that point on you rode with confidence and fell only if an unforeseen occurrence happened, such as loose rocks on the road.

As a child you trusted your brain. You had no doubt that if you kept at it, you would learn to ride. Apply the same lesson to everything you need to do and to learn. Never quit, never give up, and you WILL SUCCEED!!!