How to Succeed in School

Part 8

· Many people avoid making decisions their whole lives, so their decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination, becomes rusty and dies. Such people become totally dependent on others. When we study the four functions of the mind—Buddhist, the faculty of decisiveness; ego, the principal of identity; Chita, the storehouse of impressions; and manes the importer and exporter of sensations and experience—then we become aware of the power of the will. Will power is that something within us that comes forwards and says, “Do this. It will be helpful for you, “Training the internal functions helps us understand the decisive faculty of the mind without which we cannot be successful.

· Watch what you do on a daily basis. We become what we do and think about. If you think about nothing- you will become nothing. If you think about being a great student-you will become a great student. If you think of being honest-you will be honest. The activities and thoughts that fill your day are keys to living successfully in school and throughout your adult life.