Treat failure as fuel to spur success, PM advises students

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with students, including differently abled, on issues ranging from mastering exam pressure to busting stress, eating right and cultivating leadership qualities.

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In a shift from the traditional town hall format, the PM, addressing the eighth edition of ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’, preferred an idyllic setting at the capital’s favoured destination, the Sunder Nursery, where he engaged his guests on ecological protection and key issues of life. He also planted trees with them.

The PM said, “We should not exploit nature but protect and nurture our environment.”

Speaking on ‘master your time, master your life and live in the moment’, the PM asked students to treat “failure as a fuel for success and to challenge themselves.”

As an icebreaker, Modi distributed sweets to children rather than notes, even as he stressed the importance of eating right.

His lesson was — avoid junk food as he promoted super food millets asking everyone to have seasonal fruits.

Talking to students drawn from states and UTs across the country, the Prime Minister said exams were not everything. His conversation with a specially abled child, Vaibhav, who posed many queries related to exam stress, overthinking and time management, was especially engaging.

To make students spot and hone their hidden talents, the PM referred to a case of a boy in Ahmedabad, who was on the verge of being shunted out of school for poor performance. “But this boy brought laurels to his school in a robotics competition because he used to spend hours tinkering inside labs at school. There is something special in every child,” he said.

Modi urged parents not to confine their children and let them explore their passions. He said parents should not compare their children with others.