Every door has a key; hence every accomplishment has a means. We are unsuccessful academically not because we are not intelligent but because we do not know or understand the principles of academic success. In this book you will discover that your purpose, character and diligence affect your academic performance. This book also contains a guide on how to effectively use the S.W.OT Analysis to achieve academic success. The authors also unveil how sex, pornography, examination malpractice, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol negatively affect brain power and how to defeat these destroyers of success. The problem of insecurity is some schools and how to overcome it, is also discussed. For clear and simple understanding, the authors adopted the story telling method of teaching. Hence, this book contains eleven true short stories of students that applied the principles in this book and the results they obtained. Included are stories of Barack Hussein Obama 11, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Ghandi, Chinua Achebe, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Carson, Ugonna Kelechi Obuzor and Bible Daniel.