Once in a while we feel criticised and insulted by others for many reasons we don’t understand.  But some of us get discouraged by criticisms, other take advantage of the negative comments in order to be better of themselves.  This is according to Dr. Nol Montalbo the owner of the Mont Albo Massage Hut, he was once insulted by a college classmate for his low score in an exam.

Montalbo, in his viral post on his Facebook page, said, he recalls his days when he was still a freshman student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1996.  In his first two semesters at the university, he was not Iskolar ng Bayan for he always came in his class late, fails in his exams or even fails to submit projects on time thus, making his classmates mad at him as their groupmates in projects because they knew he would not contribute anything.

With this many bad encounters in the university, he referred himself as “Einstein” that turned his life around.  For him, Insults can either hurt or change you and in his case, wrong words bring him to the right place.

Montalbo, graduated Cum Laude, earning his Bachelor of Science in Biology Major in Genetics after only 3.5 years in college.  He was recently recognised as UPLB’s Most Distinguished Alumni in 2016.