[Chapter 4] The power of self motivation How to overcome barriers and prejudices?

The months after the events that occurred in the previous chapter were not much less simple. Pain and adversity made me focus on my goals in a way much clearer and determined but, how in any innovation project, Although the goals were clear. The problems and challenges were emerging as mushrooms in the field and was going to be, with determination, a lot of work and patience as, little to Little, I would solve all the stones of the road.

Overcome the distrust of teachers

If you have read the previous chapters, you will know that academically Things were not working for me well and, a month and a half of convalescence recovering from the physical and emotional wounds of that fateful accident They did not help to be able to channel my studies.

My teachers called my father to a meeting to talk about the situation and, to the It seems, they told him not to worry because he would have to repeat course Since, in two months, it was totally impossible for me to get the entire course forward. My father, He simply assumed such circustance because he had too much with what had. His angel on earth had returned to heaven from which he came to not return further.

I would find out that conversation many years later Thanks to me told me my sisters. Without that noise that all those generate They don't trust something, I took advantage of the month and a half of convalescence at home To put my batteries with my studies. No matter how much I did not like physics, chemistry or mathematics, they were the first challenge to overcome if I wanted to start the Way to be a designer.

Thanks Soni

What would have been of me in that month and a half without my sister soni who, too convalescent and with less mobility than mine, sat every day With me to study and explain to me everything that was done so much.

I still remember with authentic dread the formulations of benzene, the acid hydrochloric and this kind of thing that I have never used again. Thanks Soni, Without that support, perhaps today I would not have lived so many dreams. Tea I will be eternally grateful for that.

Overcome the distrust of your friends

Not all but, many of my friends at that time linked to the thought of many of the professors with whom I talked told me that what to make drawings did not It would take anywhere and I understand them. They went to engineers aeronautics and that kind of thing. They were authentic coconuts capable of devouring books and be able to approve exams apparently effortlessly.

But from tranquility but with my eyes fixed on my goals, those comments More than sinking me, they just motivated me to fight with more Determination for my dreams.

I have a thousand curious anecdotes of all that . . . but, for not extending much, only I will briefly highlight a couple that perhaps exemplify what they supposed Those last two months of course.

When your teachers make you obstacles

Organic Chemistry Exam, first after all that happened month and a half ago and, after an entire course in which to climb from the three and a half in any of the exams of this matter was little less than a chimera passes, thanks to my sister's classes, to be the highest class in the class.

This meant that, even with the arm in Cabestrillo, my tutor and the subject of the subject They had a conversation with me in the hall to tell me that they understood that my situation was very difficult, but there was no need to copy in the examsMy outrage at such an accusation was enormous, the Blood was burning inside but, despite everything, I kept calm and asked them if They had some proof of what they accused me. They told me no, but not That change was normal. I told them that I understood, but that they would see more in what was missing to finish the course.

Not only teachers, the head of studies, who was the professor of history did not decide not to make it easy by deciding that, despite having a notable on average in that quarter, I would suspend me and have to examine everything The year and would only have two weeks to prepare that exam.

Thank you all

Yes, you read it right. Of all my heart, thank you all because I learned a Lesson of all that. I had what I had won throughout the year, I always knew that I was capable, but the lack of motivation he stared and that was the distrust of all and it was, that same feeling of Dessconfianza, part of the fuel that I needed to move forward with that situation.

Looking back I reflect and I think that life is an exercise of design Constant thinking, an eternal innovation project in which, in the face of challenges, We have to have the ability to find soluions with the resources that one has at your fingertips without losing sight of the final objective.

Finally I approved the entire course in two months, swept the largest obstacle from face to meet my goals and, after that deserved but sad summer of 2001 and, three years After having made my first drawing of Son Goku in that IBM 286 in that software called Harvard Graphigcs, I started studying the closest There were, at that time, to make drawings on the computer, predimpression in graphic arts.