Try your best, but be aware of your limits
Just now, I have read that an Indian mountaineer, Ms. Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus, had been admitted to a hospital in the Lukla town in Nepal after facing difficulties during the acclimatization exercises at the Mount Everest base camp and died yesterday (18th May 2023). A very high-ranking official from Nepal Tourism Department has stated that the 59-year-old lady mountaineer was aiming to set a new world record to become Asia's first woman on a pacemaker to scale Mount Everest, although the physicians had advised her against such attempt.This unfortunate incident has forced me to think. All known and unknown people advise us to try, try and try and they say that if a person tries, he/she will definitely be successful. Following such advice, many students try for medical and engineering for two or more years but remain unsuccessful. In Delhi, I have seen numerous cases when young men and women spend years after year to clear the Indian Civil Services Examination, but ultimately fail to succeed.
In some extremely unfortunate cases, some engineering/medical aspirants or civil service aspirants, after losing three-four valuable years of their life in such futile attempts, commit suicide.
Such unfortunate incidents happen only because we fail to understand our own limit/potential.
So, I think, the proper advice to students should be : Try Your Best; But Understand Your Limit.