CAT Preparation: Can you be “The Closer”?

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What does CAT Preparation have to do with Harvey Spectre? For those among you who’ve seen Suits on Netflix, you would know the pompous Harvey Specter. His claim to being the best closer in NY legal league would surely be at the top of your memory.

Closer home, we had the pleasure of seeing someone else as the best closer in the cricketing business. For well over a decade – M S Dhoni was the man. More often than not, he rose to superman abilities as a “finisher” in a crux match at the end. And in doing so, he also guided his team to several improbably wins. Apart from finishing matches as a batter, he also finished many with his calm presence of mind on the field.

Rather than restrict his legacy to any specific incident(s) or match(es), it would perhaps be more appropriate to reminisce about his unflappable temperament over a decade-long period that got his team past the finish line time and time again, from seemingly impossible-to-win situations.

Technically, he never was close to the best – either as a batsman or a keeper. But the one thing he was sure of was himself – even when all others may have thought otherwise. The situation and the odds didn’t matter to him. He just took the game deep and trusted himself to come off. It was more a victory of his mind than his cricketing skills.

If you can carry even a small portion of this part of him – the ability to stay calm, and have tremendous self-belief – to the CAT, you will give yourself the chance to beat the odds. To close, you have to take it till the end, you have to be there when it finishes – and not give up, just because the odds seem stacked against you at any penultimate moment. You need to trust yourself and you need to trust the intense CAT preparation you have been so committed to over the past several months.

You may never play cricket for India … err … the BCCI – but you will see more wins than losses if you can do that in just about any sphere.

About the author: Deekshant has sleep-walked through several 100 and 99.9 %iles in practically every section of the CAT. That he is a cricket fan and he writes okay is evident from most of his posts. 1000s of our students swear that he can motivate almost anyone to double his/her percentile through very simple yet powerful inputs. And that’s why every MBAGuru student has direct access to him via mail and Telegram. Oddly, he somehow also finds the time to write songs professionally. And yes … almost missed this … he is an alumnus of IIT Delhi & IIM Cal 🙂

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