Recent content by gluegun

Oh no, I already have enough qualifications to go to the universities I had in mind, and competitons don't matter in my country. This is only because of my friend group, all of them are so great at their fields and already well known while I have achieved nothing as big, so I want to change that...

Only winning or at least doing above 50% of the exam. I see no real joy in doing anything that's not actually theoretical or engaging but I have to do this for my inner peace. And I am not obsessed which I think is the problem, regardless of anything else. If I have one goal and doing my best...

Thanks for the advice!

But I want to succeed, I want it to fulfill me and I don't know how. All of my friends are so ambitious and they kept me going for a few months and now i'm back at the point of nauseating ambivalence and I don't know how to change it. Thanks for the reply

How do you keep the motivation for competing? I wanted to start taking physics more seriously this year and so I decided to go to the nationals, but lately whenever I can't do a problem I just give uo and can't look at the book for days. Nationals are in late February and I need to go over the...