You're allowed to find a winner without pretending to have split the atom - here's what you should focus on
There aren't many things I'm very good at. I could bat a bit at cricket and my golf was okay before my back went, but if I was to say the one thing I was best at it would be exams.
Anyone who knows me would agree it was nothing to do with the amount of study I did, quite the opposite, and the simple reason is that I've always been good at answering the question posed.
For example, if there was a question about the economic reasons for the rise of Hitler, most of my peers would write everything they knew about the rise of Hitler, seemingly completely forgetting the word 'economic'.
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Published on inTom Segal
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