Part 10

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 10

·      They prefer tasks with some degree of difficulty and novelty, which stimulate their learning skills.

·      They don’t apply the simple criteria of success-fail to their learning. Remember, they are focused into the learning process.

·      They know how to handle groups.

·      Finally, they work with passion.

Other chief habit is that of asking questions. We have to establish hypothesis and set concrete, realistic goals. After reading any text we have to ask several different questions related to its content, in order to verify if we have completely understood the text. It’s also important to try to relate such text and other areas of our knowledge. Again, linking ideas and concepts is a habit of highly successful students. So, link.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

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·      Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects—life within and life without; internal life and external life—and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

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If you prefer to play videogames, then remember that making any game requires to prepare a detailed script including history, characters, goals and relations. Therefore, you could start writing down the script for your “dream” game. On the other side, you could imagine how the novel you are reading could be transformed into a videogame (start out by thinking which gaming genre fits the novel better: role-playing, adventure, action, and so on.) The basic idea is to find match points and links between our affections and our chores. And such links there always exist. Remember, to link ideas and concepts is the most important habit for successful students.

Successful students also exhibit other particular traits we should internalize:

·      They are always trying to discover better approaches in order to accomplish their tasks (adequate studying place, availability of resources, etc.) You may find my post on Pristine Home with Feng Shui useful for improving your studying environment.

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Responsibility

“The Importance of Taking Personal Responsibility”

This is a chart to see what happens when Responsible, Rewards, and Consequences.

Responsibilities	The Rewards	Not Responsible	The Consequences
School Going to All Classes Homework Football Practice	Learning New Things Meeting with Friends Learning to do it on Your Own Can be Career	Truancy Ditching Lazy Can’t Play on Games	Can get a Fee or Parents go to Jail Conference or O.T. Not Learning anything and no Free Time Kicked out & other Teams won’t want You

-        With responsibility more jobs and careers will be offered to you

-        Get in trouble less often

-        More people trust you

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

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2. Success is about achieving goals, and therefore is a relative notion. Highly successful students are those which set realistic goals, and attain them with the proper investment of resources. Thus, not necessarily the student with the best grades is the most successful learner. Now, we have stated what the successful student is like. Good.

2.  If you have negative entries in your list of driving forces, it’s time to improve things quite a bit. First, identify other topics that you indeed like a lot, not necessarily related to studying. Perhaps you like pets, to cook or play video games. Now try to establish associations or links between these favorite activities of yours and the subject of study that you dislike. For example, let’s assume that you dislike literature (you perhaps think it’s utterly boredom) but love your humongous pit-bull “Casino Joe” Then you could start thinking how your dog would fit as a character into that novel you have to analyze: what it’s role would be and how he would interact with other characters in the novel.

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                        Student success statement
 A CTR champion is person who makes a great human out of himself.
                                           Noemi triggers
                                 (HPHS student 2010-11)
Reflection: this quote might mean that a person that is a champion in life will be a healthy person in life. He/she will become rich and wont struggle through his/her life.


 http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/religion/choosing-the-right-path/article4006326.ece

Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 4

   The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding of one relationship to the eternal world and the relationship within oneself.

    All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who are not happy internally can never be happy eternally; those who are not happy within themselves   can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

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