• Invest in your cup first. Let it overflow. Your surrounding cups (family and friends) will also benefit
• If you’re 99% there, you’re only 50% there.
• Iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens their friend. Surround yourself with motivated and inspiring people.
• If you are scared of the spotlight, shine more light on your stage so there is no spotlight.
• Darkness is just the absence of light. Be the light.
• Pursue progress, and not perfection
• Time is the most precious resource on this planet, make the most of it.
• Less is more
• Do less, be more
• The bigger the base, the higher the mountain
• The greatest meaning we can take on is the burden of suffering.
• Meaningless suffering will become meaningful if you take personal responsibility.
• Those who seek to reorganise the world should start to clean up the disorder that exists in their own room first.
• Before blaming others, ask yourself if you’re completely exculpatory.
• Money can’t buy manners, respect, loyalty and love.
• Life is like a game of golf. The choices and values you make now at school will impact you in your 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond. Hold your golf club firmly and with purpose.
• It’s not so much important what we learn, but WHY and HOW we learn.
• Why is the most important question in life. If you know why, the how, who, what, when, where, who will naturally follow.
• Attitude always trumps aptitude.
• Failures are a gift for growth and progress
• The now is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.
• Respect your teachers, respect your parents, respect your family, but most importantly: respect yourself.
• Love and help yourself, so that you can love and help others
• It’s good to think. But it’s more important to think about how you think.
• In the changing economy, it is not such much how great you are as an individual, but how well you work in a team
• Whatever you do in life, do it with pride
• There are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret.
• You are the master of your fate, and the captain of your soul.
• Our failures and mistakes don’t define us. How we respond to them do.
• Broaden your horizons
• When you lie to others, you’re only lying to yourself
• Your life is like a movie, and you are the director. If you know how your movie ends, you know what key scenes are needed in the middle and the beginning. It doesn’t matter how many takes you try. And… Action!
• Your life is like a story, and you are the author. Make every chapter, every page, every paragraph, every sentence, and every word count.
• Pain is temporary, knowledge is lasting, learning is forever
• Your values are your personalised compass. If you need to make a life decision, refer to your compass.
• Never blame others for failure. Take responsibility.
• Study smarter, not harder.
• Hating is a reflection of your own insecurities.
• Jealousy is the cousin of failure.
• Never compare your life with anyone else’s.
• Growth is relative.
• By learning about the world, you learn more about yourself
• Your life is a story, tell it well.
• There’s no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. Every accomplishment begins with the decision to try.
• Every child is different and has their own inner genius. Realise your growth potential.
• Form the right habits, and the right results will come.
• Don’t be obsessed with the destination, fall in love with the journey.
• Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
• Create your own future.
• You’re not stressed, you FEEL stress. You’re not angry, you FEEL anger. Don’t let your emotions define who you are.
• Your history is not your destiny.
• Serendipity is an anagram for ripe destiny. Unjumble the confusion and surprises that happen every day by having faith that it’s all for a greater purpose- your ripe destiny.
• The loudest person in the room is usually not the smartest. It’s the quality of words you say, not the quantity.
• You create positive habits, and positive habits create a better you.
• It’s not how good you are as an individual, it’s how great you are in a team.
• Your marks don’t define you. It is you that makes a mark on education, and the real world.

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It uses fear mongering to prey on innocent, loving parents who just want the best for their child.

Have you ever asked the tutoring college owners what you should do when you grow up, only to be given this answer:

“Be a doctor. Or a lawyer.”

“If you can’t do that, then if you are a male – be an engineer. If you are a female – be a teacher.”

It is mostly migrant parents that are misinformed about the nature of the Australian workforce. They believe that academic merit will be a guarantee for success in the future. Watch what this Math teacher says about the key to success here.

Angela Lee Duckworth says it is grit that is the best indicator of success in career and life. Further, grit was found to be usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.

Don’t let the spreaders of the Nerd Syndrome defeat you. Yes, academic marks are important, but so are other important things in life, such as your happiness and mental sanity. Life is about balance – that’s how we can become true blue Aussie all-rounders.

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• No one really cares what ATAR you got at University
• No one really cares what marks you got at University in the workforce

More fun facts:

• Managers and employers do care about your soft skills
• Many companies are dropping the requirement for a candidate to submit their academic marks for employment (read here)
• They care whether you can communicate, deliver the work and put simply – whether they like you as a person or not

Instead of letting education put a mark on you – we want you to put a mark on education.

Embrace education for what it is – the best gateway to understand ourselves and the world. Learning never stops!  

All we want you to do is stay arms-length of the rest of the pack, don’t fall too far behind. Just keep up and enjoy the ride. Don’t hang up your boots just yet!

Watch the video of our very own Aussie Steven Bradbury winning gold at the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics here.

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We believe all students are gifted, in their own unique way.

In 1978, a 15 year old Michael Jordan did not make his high school varsity basketball team. Luckily he had the resilience and motivation to turn this setback and become the greatest of all time. Some basketball players are pass first point guards, some are dominant power forwards, some are “point-forwards” and some can cover any position on the court.

Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships. It’s not just the shooter of the winning buzzer beater that wins the game, it’s the big in the post that sets a screen, it’s the guard that has the vision to make the high-risk pass, it’s the coach who strategizes the play, and it’s the fans who hold their breath in anticipation for the win.

It’s not how good you are as an individual. It’s how great you are in a team.

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