Believe it or not, your entire academic career doesn’t really tell you much about yourself. It tells you only if you are good (or not) at school, which is fine if you want to spend the entire life in academia. But, it would have been far better if it could indicate whether or not are we going to be successful in making money or managing our failed relationships – if that matters. Here, 7 reasons to make you believe life turned out to be so different than what we were being trained for, all those years:

5. What’s Urgent is what’s Important, we learn in school. “Final exams are 6 months away, you should focus on your seasonal-exams first” we all remember our teacher telling us that.

Whereas our first job never fails to remind us that what’s urgent isn’t always important. By confusing the two, you will only drain your energy and affect your productivity.