[align=left]Hi guys,
Here am back to share with you this wee article. I know that some will disagree with the author on the way he perceives success, and that might include me, but the global message that he wanted to convey is true and can act as a motivation for all of us to excel in our studies/ work/ or anything in our life.
Now, I shall let you read the secret 
Cheddad.
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The Secret of Success
In a letter published in the daily Qaumi Awaz, Mr Mushtaq Ahmad, an
advocate of the Supreme Court of India, comments on 'minority'
attitudes:
"In the days when I was a student at the Aligargh Muslim University, Mr
Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, Head of the Department of History, told me of an
incident which had taken place in his student days at Cambridge
University. It was at the time when the Jews, persecuted all over
Europe, had been forced to flee from Germany.
Iftikhar Ahmad noticed a group of students on the university
campus who stood out from the others. They would always rush through
their meals, then immediately go back to their studies or other related
matters.
One day he asked them why they were working at such a frenzied
pace. One of the students replied, "You see, we are Jews. Our people
are being exterminated in Germany. Here, we are in a minority, so that
if our rivals are fair, we have to be good, and if they are good, we
have to be excellent."
The secret of the Jews' success lies in their having made excellence
their way of life and in working harder than their competitors. To
have peace and concentration - the conditions needed for real, hard work -
one has to stay away from all strife, whether serious or trifling, from
all protest campaigns and slogan raising, and refrain from all attempts
to blame others for one's own weaknesses. The Jews realised that being
in a minority, they had to shoulder a great social and historical
responsibility - and that meant working twice as hard as the majority.
This is a world of competition. The secret of success lies solely in
hard work and wisdom, whether one is a Jew or not, and no matter
whether the community to which one belongs has any special features that makes
it stand out from other communities. Everyone has to go through the
mill. There is no exception to this rule.
The Jews are so particular about this that they make no concessions to
their youth - even in their own institutions - so that their incentive
to work hard is never dampened. I once asked an acquaintance who was
educated at an American university, and who is now working for an
American academic institution, whether he had met any Jews there. He
said he had. There were some Jews working in the same institution, and
even its director was a Jew. I asked him the secret of their success
in America, where they form a tiny minority. He replied that it was due
to their notion of excellence - they made excellence their target. Once
they had earned distinction in their work, and qualified themselves for
their careers in a superlative manner, no one could stand in the way of
their success.
He said that, moreover, the academic institutions set up by the Jews in
the US observed what may seem to us a very strange principle. That is,
they awarded scholarships to non-Jewish applicants even though they
scored as low as 40%, but made the criterion for Jewish applicants much
stricter - to be eligible for a scholarship, Jewish applicants need to
have scored at least 75%. If they failed to come up with this high
standard, their applications were simply not considered.
Why do Jews follow this principle in their institutions? This
procedure appears to be very unjustified, but in actual fact it is of the
greatest benefit to their own people because it encourages them to work really
hard; it inspires them to forge ahead, leaving all others behind.
Here, in this competitive world of today, those who want concessions
will always find themselves in the back seat. It is only those who
make every effort to earn excellent qualifications who will ever come to the
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