When all the marbles are on the line...

 When all the marbles are on the line...

❗When all the marbles are on the line, what happens next ?  You then confront yourself whether you will attempt or not.  Attempt and you might fail.  Don't attempt and absolutely you won't fail.  Would you rather not attempt so that surely you won't fail, really ?

Or will you take the plunge when all the marbles are on the line, when the next option left for you is a far second ?  And a third option is much farther down ?

We have had so many mentors even in modern history, all harping on the obvious.  Nelson Mandela, the famous South African democratic leader pitched and preached that there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than what you are capable of living.

Take this barbershop story.  You can fail and fail and fail over and over again but if you hang around in the barbershop for quite sometime, sooner you get a haircut.  Lesson here ?  Eventually you will catch a break.  Sometimes, failure is the best way to figure out where you're going.  The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, that's what's going to define you.  Just never get discouraged.  Never hold back.  

Not to encourage hacking because we condone such acts but hold on, why are hackers hitting the bullseye over and over again ?  Curtly, its because they never cease to stop attempting, trying and retrying.  Even Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments and on the 1,001st try, the bulb did lit, finally.  Lesson he learned ?  Every failed experiment brings you closer to success.  You will fail.  You will lose.  You will suck.  But you gotta 

embrace that cycle because that's the inevitability. When your laptop fails to boot up, you don't dump it off straight away, right ?  You don't need to be a techie to go through the motions of the basics.  If you need to restart in safe mode, just do it.  If you need to initiate a manual start via DOS, go for it.  

In the face of adversity, we should never lose sight of the elusive success we have been hungering for.  We may be gifted [like you're gifted in Math] but what becomes imperative is constantly practicing that Math so by taking it to the next level means you have opted to take the less easy path, in fact, that's the hard part.

Nothing kills more dreams than fear itself.  Not even the failures that repeat over and over again.  Unless you take the next step, that next stride, you are going nowhere in your path towards achieving that dream.  Having that guts is a must but having that guts to fail will test your mettle because to get something you never had, you need to do something you never did.⏳