Academic fulfilment is achievable. But success is for only students that have chosen to pay the price to access the secrets of academic success. Thus academic fulfilment re-quires conscious engagement and a mere wishing. This book contains true inspirational stories of common people that achieved uncommon feat because they dared to overcome diverse challenges to achieve academic success. You will find stories of-Chinue Achebe, who became the grandfather of Nigerian literature because he discovered his purpose and refused to bow to the pressure of his sponsor to study medicine. -Anyaehie George, an outstanding student, who failed his courses because he failed to grasp the negative effect of sex and pornography on academic perform-ance. -George Washington Carver, a slave boy whose persistence made him an Afri-can-American Professor at a time when black Americans were not allowed to go to school.-Mahatma Gandhi, a student that was mocked by his teacher and fellow student because he refused to engage in examination malpractice. But his integrity as-sisted him in leading India to independence.-Booker T. Washington, who became the first African-American ever invited to the White House because of his humility to his teachers and school authority.-Benjamin Carson, a student that refused to be consumed by peer pressure and later became recipient of the United States of America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom because of his expertise which include sepa-rating, conjoined twins and doing brain surgery.-Ugonna Kelechi Obuzor, a multi-talented student that was murdered because our society lacks respect for human lives.-Winston Churchill, the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature who as student became outstanding because he learnt how to improve on his best subjects and employ the assistance of other students to gain strength in his areas of weakness. -Barack Hussein Obama, a promising student that would have wasted his life due to Drugs and Alcohol abuse. His abstinence made him the first black President of America.-Bible Daniel, a Hebrew slave boy that became the best student in the royal school of Babylon because he understood that academic success will be a mi-rage without God. Regardless of his slave status, he later became a ruler be-cause he was ten times better than other students.