This book is written with you in mind to help you excel in your academic career and in everything you have to do. The impetus for writing it was the author’s experience to overcome the seemingly impossible throughout his life and dreams that came true. It all started in high school with the life-changing words of one of his school teachers, “John, you’ve got what it takes. You can!” This was in stark contrast to other school teachers’ negative remarks, such as “You cannot do it. It is impossible to pass high school math in two years, it had never been done before and it would never be done, forget about it!” The author proved the negative, discouraging words of those teachers wrong. With commitment and a dream in his heart to excel in life, he worked hard and achieved, not only what his pessimistic teachers told him was impossible, but eventually a doctor’s degree in the humanities from the University of South Africa