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There is a famous quote from Sun Tzu, “Know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles.” Which is to say, without knowing your enemy, you will not understand what you must do in order to face him.
Here also more or less the same goes, "Know UPSC CSE demand, know thyself, and you may create an opportunity to clear UPSC CSE examination."
But the tragedy here is though everyone claim to be Serious and Sincere Aspirants to themselves, most of the times even after spending years and years together in this Preparation, they rarely do know UPSC CSE demand and even more worst is they never tried to look into themselves through self-analysis to know themselves w.r.t CSE exam, so it is obvious that what will be the consequences of such DUAL IGNORANCE, i.e., ignorance about UPSC CSE demand and ignorance of themselves.
Except UPSC CSE demand, these aspirants know everything else that's being propagated in the market through an instrument called as "CONDITIONING" (about exam and about their skills) by multiple forces for their self-interest through.
However irrespective of what market does, it is much of self-inflicted ignorance only. Here it's being remarked as self-inflicted ignorance, because there is no use in blaming market forces, thats their way of business, but as an aspirant trying to be AWARE of oneself and UPSC CSE demand, is one of the basic attributes to be expected.
In this self-inflicted ignorance, right from the beginning aspirants are reeling under market forces and facing consistent failures irrespective of their potential.
For your ignorant sleeping, you can blame 'n' number of market forces, but it only hardens your victim mindset and make you a living puppet in the hands of circumstances.
Awakening must come from inside, that will only happen when there is rigorous self-analysis and self-acceptance founded on the complete self-responsibility.
It is very saddening to see how aspirants are continuously becoming slaves to the market forces, loosing their self-esteem and turing out to be inefficient gradually.
Though physical slavery is more of ended, currently it is the age of mental slavery through much more forceful and powerful means like "manipulation and conditioning". So it is basic requirement of an aspirant who is aspiring to serve or lead others, first to secure himself/herself from the mental walls of slavery.
Anyone can enslave you only, until you don't realise that you are a slave, until you are reluctant to take self-responsibility and until you don't have an absolute self-belief.
So first being aware of current position and having a rational self-analysis is necessary to Awaken.
There are several good things in the market that may help an aspirant in their journey of preparation, but only the given condition that Aspirant is a Real Aspirant, and he/she knows UPSC CSE demand and himself/herself.
The most available way to understand UPSC CSE demand is, the Syllabus and the PYQ and some of the instructions provided by UPSC.
And to know oneself, what is required is keeping aside EGO voice, victim and defence mindset and seeing through one's self, to realise what one is doing everyday w.r.t Exam both in terms of Syllabus Preparation and mindset needed for the aspiring role.
This lack of self-analysis is diluting many potential aspirants productivity through subtle wastages of time here and there (in trivial activities which have nothing to do with the goal of that aspirant).
Thus, those supposedly real Aspirants out there, and if at all any of you are in ignorance sleeping, try to Awaken, before it's too late for making any changes.
Especially those giving 2025 attempt, it's critical time to Awaken urgently and utilise the next four months with Awareness of UPSC CSE demand and Yourself, so that your efforts may provide you an opportunity to clear this exam.
Prepare well with Awareness
All the best 😊
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