>> Be prepared to fail.
I actually read this question before,
and it made me really think I meet too many students who are afraid of failure.
They're afraid of trying new things or go in a direction that they may have never thought
of before because they don't want to fail, but what makes great people great is that they fail,
they learn from those failures, and they continue to move forward.
Anybody you've met who's successful has failed at one time in life.
The difference that makes them successful is they don't give up.