They say knowledge is power (and you can never have too much power).
But why is it that with all the information out there, we don’t always get to where we want to go? Why do 80 percent of New Year resolutions fail by February? (Remember those? LOL)
“If more information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.”
Knowledge applied correctly is power. Knowledge is potential energy. It’s what we DO with the knowledge and the desire, not the fact that we have them, not the fact that we simply declare our desire.
But even then, the top hurdle that I’ve encountered with people taking the bar isn’t skills or knowledge.
It’s, uh, mindset. I lowkey hesitate to use this term because it’s sometimes associated with impractical woo-woo and things like visualization.
But the point remains: The hurdle is often internal.
If you have the raw material but can’t bring yourself to make a sand castle, if you can’t turn that potential energy in your mind into kinetic energy, what’s the point?
It’s getting harder to pass the bar exam…and that’s exactly why you should go for it.
It’s not going to get easier. But when the bar is set high, it’s actually an opportunity to stand out more.
How?
If you take the time to observe people who have passed the bar exam, you can kind of tell why. There’s something about their behavior:
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