Five Lies My Teacher Told Me Quotes

“Passion persuades people to follow you and believe in you. But most importantly, passion will persuade yourself. It makes you go berserk and work really hard, because your brain believes that it could rock your world.”
― Chandan Deshmukh, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Steve Jobs wasn’t the greatest engineer, designer, salesman or businessman. But he was good enough at each of these things and wove them together to reach a greater purpose.”
― Chandan Deshmukh, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Studies show that many of the world’s most successful people dropped out of education entirely. Not because they were stupid, but because they found other areas where they were more skilled, which the monotonous education system did not acknowledge”
― Chandan Deshmukh, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“If you look outside that space, you’ll find innumerable options and less competition”
― Chandan Deshmukh, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Call me insane, but I believe in the saying ‘You are what you do on a Sunday.”
― Chandan Deshmukh, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“What You Think What it Really Is To Do I am just stupid at this subject. Unrealistic expectation. Reset the shame and start working on it. I’ll never get as smart as ‘Sharma ji ka beta’. Unfair comparison. Try automaticity explained in this book. My mind is blank right now. You need refreshment. Take a break, split the problems into smaller parts, and pick one piece to start. This is so damn boring. You don’t really understand the subject. You haven’t done research on it. Do it, and you’ll find out that it is interesting. Everybody keeps nagging me. Your brand needs reinvention. Find a person who you trust the most. Ask him/ her how you can improve your brand. This seems to be a lot of work. You need a goal. Find out why you are doing this. Connect with what you want to do.”
― Chandan Deshmukh, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“When your Emotions get going, they hijack your Attention and control how you feel, what you think, and also what you see. Thankfully, this is not a one-way process.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“If he was ever going to conquer his fear, he needed to separate the feelings he had about the subject from the facts of his situation. Only that way, he would be able to get clarity about his assumptions.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Your attention is an amazingly powerful tool. With it, you can focus your mind on the motion of a tiny little ant, or the vastness of the universe.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Your attention can only deal with one non-automated task at a time.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Students who get distinction marks don’t see every single mistake as a reflection of their intelligence. They take it as a ‘mis-take’ and do things differently the next time.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“As you do more and more Fix-It practice, you will realize something totally crazy: your mistakes are your new best friend.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Our job is to make sure that our brain automates the right things.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Unfair comparison is the major source of people feeling stupid in school/college, leading to other psychological problems.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“There is no way you can find out how much work a person has put in because it is invisible. So, trying to compare your brain with someone else’s brain is only going to create a problem for you.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Sure, you can sit near someone in class or do your homework together. But even with that close an angle of observation, you still cannot see the kind of work they are doing inside their head.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“So, repetition of new information creates stronger pathways in your brain. So, ‘practice makes perfect’ is actually right.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Only effort can make it effortless.’ – Ben Mitchell, (Profession? Can’t say—he is a fictional character!)”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“If I have ever made any valuable discovery, it has been due more to patient attention than to any other talent.’ – Isaac Newton, Physicist and Mathematician”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.’ – Thomas Edison, Inventor”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“all geniuses have one thing in common: Practice.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Scientists have so far found no genes that result in some people having above average intelligence. In other words, the idea that someone can be a born genius just isn’t true”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Most of us believe that being smart is about being born with the right kind of brain, or being a slave to your books. Believe me, in reality, it’s much simpler than that.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“The trick is not to kill the Monkey—which is impossible—but to tame it. Here’s how: Realize that everything we do is a choice. Reward the Monkey. Say, ‘If we finish studying this chapter in the next one hour, we’ll have an ice cream.’ Aim for slow and steady progress. Study one chapter every day, instead of studying the whole book on the eve of the exam. This way, not only are you growing academically, but are also keeping your Monkey happy.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“some who don’t even respond to the Anxiety Monster, and, in the most desperate moments, they end up climbing the tree with the Monkey, only to fall down and then get into a depression and suffer an emotional breakdown.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“There is only one thing that scares the Instant Gratification Monkey—the Anxiety Monster.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“It’s a mess. And with the monkey in charge, you spend a lot of time in a place called the Guilt Playground.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“Instant Gratification Monkey’ is the one which tempts you to deviate from your goals. It’s like the sweet words which your family doctor utters before giving you an injection. The Instant Gratification Monkey satisfies you in the short term, but it will affect your long term goals.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“The world is full of opportunities. If a person has loads of enthusiasm and is willing to invest time in something interesting, he/she is bound to get a terrific result”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation

“To fulfill our dreams, we must be down to earth and WORK on it. We need to yearn for it and then earn it.”
― CHANDAN DESHMUKH, Five Lies My Teacher Told Me: Success Tips for the New Generation