After 20 days of not knowing what to write I finally got an idea for the INSEAD essay I hadn't touched till now - "Describe a situation taken from school, business, civil or military life, where you did not meet your personal objectives, and discuss briefly the effect. "
Here's how I dealt with the block. I sat down this morning and decided I have to complete my essays... well I did not have much option. My deadline is on 29th and I have been losing sleep over this. Last night at 11 I told myself that I need good sleep and that I'll find a way tomorrow morning. So I slept and woke up and sat down to work. I started with thinking about my learning in life without any focus on failure and then I thought of a situation where we did not meet the objective we started with. Once I started working on that I thought of another situation which I thought was just what I wanted to write about. And it fell in place. So I'm completing my essays today and sending them for review, this time to two people.
Its weird that I can't find 5 people who would have time to review my essays and will give me helpful feedback. Its also funny how there is this one person I want to send my essays to but am not doing so because I know this person is overtly critical and will shatter my confidence to pieces making me feel like I'm not worth it. To add to that this person won't even give me suggestions on how to improve my essays only say its bad. I've never seen myself as someone who cannot take criticism but I don't think I'm always the most confident person. Enough justification on my choice of essay reviewers.
Today was so far productive and hope it stays this way
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