{"id":20244,"date":"2011-05-21T06:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/roger-black-my-greatest-mistake\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T01:39:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:39:34","slug":"roger-black-my-greatest-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/roger-black-my-greatest-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Black: My greatest mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRoger Black panicked when he couldn’t answer one vital maths question. It was to change his whole life \u2026In many ways my whole career has been shaped around the biggest mistake of my life. At school I played a lot of rugby and cricket, but I never really did much athletics. I went to a grammar school and my primary aim was to get three good A-levels so I could read medicine at university.I had to get three Bs \u2013 that was enough to get you into medical school. One was mathematics and, when it came to the exam, there was one question I\u00a0got stuck on. I just couldn’t work it out, so I left it and went back to it later. The more I looked at it, the more confused I got. I started to panic and when the time was up I hadn’t managed to complete the whole paper. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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