Don’t wait until the roof leaks to fix it

You didn't study hard back then. Now that the gaokao is coming up, what can you do? Accept the outcome, or repeat a year to deal with next year's problem instead of this year's.

The timing to resolve the problem you're facing now was actually ten years ago — which means you can't solve today's problem today. All you can do is solve the problem that lies ten years down the road.