Quora User Got Best Reply When He Asked How Roman Saini Passed MBBS & IAS In First Attempt

There are very few times when we come across people who achieve something which seemed much difficult or rather next to impossible. Quite obviously, these persons become a source of inspiration for many others; however, we always wonder how they attained such huge success in life despite the fact that they also saw failure but yes, they never gave up and this is what made them capable of achieving the impossible. Today we share a question asked on Quora by an inquisitive user who wondered and questioned about Roman Saini on becoming a doctor as well as an IAS in the very first attempt. Here is what he asked on Quora:

“Roman Saini became a doctor and an IAS in his first attempt. I am curious if he is a super-human genius or has he also experienced failure like normal people?”

I mean it is very difficult to crack both these exams in the first attempt itself. I am just curious if he has experienced some failures on the way.”

And here comes the reply from Roman Saini and we hope it must have quenched the user’s inquisitive thirst:

I have experienced more failure than most of you reading this answer. I have had my fair share of setbacks and each and every time I couldn’t succeed, I felt like this is the end of the world.

You feel like air is not going in and out of your lungs, you suffocate, your abdomen hurts, feels like you are chewing lava but at the same time, your heart is ice cold. Your hands become numb, your eye wants to gouge out from the socket, the head is exploding, you feel like pissing and defecating but your system is frozen, your feet doesn’t support your body. You feel like your worst nightmare has come alive and there is no hope for you anymore.

The worst feeling is that deep dark sinking feeling which just lingers. At that moment, you feel like it will stay the same way forever. That small voice inside your head start to have endless discussion with you and concludes that you are nothing but a worthless piece of s#!t. You become anxious, depressed and are completely stressed out all the time.

These are few of such instances where I ‘failed’:

1. Didn’t get into NTSE or cleared any such exams till the class X (partially because  I didn’t study at all till class X and also as there was not much exposure in my school).
2. The first test I gave in Class XI, I got negative marks.
3. Couldn’t clear Physics Olympiad (even the first step), Chemistry and Biology Olympiad (Second Step). It’s a different story that people who knew much-2 less than me got through.
4. I failed in a Biochemistry internal examination in AIIMS first professional exam (was going through some depression due to personal issues).
5. I did a project for KVPY in my AIIMS days and was fortunate enough to get a call by IISc (Indian Institute of Science). This is my interview call letter.

For the first time in my life, I worked on a project for 2 months (July and August, 2009), handling, feeding smelly rats and operating on them to compare the nociceptive (pain reducing) effect of Morphine with Ketorolac. For attending this interview, I spent the largest amount ever on myself till that date (Rs. 15,000), took a flight for the first time in my life and went outside Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan (again for the first time), as IISc is in Bangalore. 17 of us from AIIMS gave the interview and personally for me everything went perfectly fine. But when result came out after 2 months, 15 got the KVPY scholarship (around 5 lakh Rupees in total) while 2/17 didn’t made it. As you have guessed I was one of the two who didn’t get the scholarship. I felt completely shattered.

7. I failed at most of the sports like Volleyball, Badminton, Basketball etc.

8. Couldn’t play guitar properly for the first 3 months. My teacher called me the “slowest learner” he has ever seen.

9. It took me 3 years to learn swimming.

10. Before clearing my UPSC CSE exams, I failed in so many prelims mock test (started with 3200th rank) and was termed a loser by many teachers and aspirants.

11. I failed my body as I couldn’t keep a healthy regime of diet and exercise. I am overweight for my height, since December, 2012 (for last 3 years).

12. I failed many persons in my life, who expected things from me but I couldn’t deliver.

13. I failed my grandmother (Dadi) and uncle (Tauji) as I couldn’t even attend their funeral as I was busy with my preparation and training, respectively ( I regret these the most).

14. I failed my family as I couldn’t be at home for most of the occasions like Diwali, Holi, Raksha Bandhan, anniversaries, birthdays.

15. One of my friend asked me to appear for an IQ test. I filled the form reluctantly and gave this exam 3 days after my UPSC CSE result (CSE result was out on 12th June, 2014 while I gave this exam on 15th June, 2014). Though I had no interest in giving the exam and I was fighting with a lack of sleep, still the bottom line is I failed to get into Mensa.

So to make a long story short, I have failed on countless occasion, more than I care to remember. But that’s not the point. Each and every failure I faced, I tried to learn something from it, at all times. I always tweaked my strategy according to the learnings and kept pushing forward. You really only fail when you stop trying. Even if you don’t make it, just take it on the chin like a champ, standup, rub it, get on with it and start training again. But just a word of caution, not all failure is good. You need to learn something from these event and make appropriate changes in your tactics, so that the next time you face a similar problem, you have better odds of succeeding. As Albert Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.”

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Source: Quora