My first major failure was when I failed my professional exam to become a specialist doctor.
I was always a top student and failing an exam for the first time was just unthinkable.
Even worse when I failed the same exam a few months later for the second time. Dua kali tak pass!
For high achievers, the first time failing something can be very hard to accept
You cannot believe that it is happening. Your ego is bruised and you think your whole world has collapsed
As you mature and encounter more failures and setbacks, you realised these are all just normal life experiences
It hurts everytime it happens, but you gather yourself again and you move forward.
You learn from that failure and aim to do more better next time.
That’s exactly what I did.
I studied even harder, took the exam for the third attempt and alhamdulillah passed the exam.
I then became a Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
