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So you are a WISDOM person.
Hi, I'm Jennifer Duclair, lead mindset mentor, teacher, attorney and coach. I help law school graduates pass the bar exam by focusing solely on mindset practices. After years of success, I have a growing specialty in helping graduates from a wide-range of degree programs pass their life defining licensing exams and professional certification tests as well. If you are or will be studying for a major exam that spells the difference between whether you can move forward with your career or not, you are in the right place. Watch the video above and read advice for your type below.
You came to enjoy learning, studying, and even test taking. You likely raised your hand often to answer questions in class. You were rewarded for always knowing the right answer. That has developed into a strong ego aversion to ever being wrong. You depend heavily on gathering all the facts and data before making a decision. Yet you need to see the big picture before any of those small details mean a thing to you.
So what’s so bad about that?
First, because of your aversion to getting things wrong, you will be hit the hardest if you fail a test. If you have failed an exam your counterparts were likely baffled as to why. You’re so smart! You get caught in a negative feedback loop based on past failed results that will make you hold back and waste even more time deliberating before your next attempt. (You have to break this feedback loop so you can move on).
Your need to weigh all the facts and figures (more so than is necessary) causes you to run out of time on the exam. Despite your ability to quickly see the big picture, make sense of a situation, and spot the right answer on an exam, your need to deliberate causes you to look for support for your chosen answer before you can move on. So you run out of time and either have to rush through the rest of your exam, fill in bubbles randomly, or leave your exam incomplete.
You will also discount helpful material just because you don’t like the presentation, you found a typo, or you think the presenter doesn’t know their stuff. This may cause you to miss out on the very resource that could’ve gotten you past the finish line of your exam.
What’s your needed mindset shift?
In your case the right mindset and unconditional self-confidence is everything.
You have to quit the learning and start the practicing if you’re going to pass the exam. The ability to think highly of yourself, even when you get questions wrong, is going to get you through all the practice sessions you must complete in order to ace your exam.
You also must adopt the mindset of weighing future costs against present investments. In the short term, an investment to pass your exam may seem steep, but weigh that against the long term cost of:
taking and failing your exam
losing money and job opportunities
paying to retake the exam
not to mention the opportunity cost from the time you’ll have to spend studying all over again.
Do the long-term math to determine whether a resource is right for you instead of shunning it right off the bat because of presentation or cost.