Acquiring the habits of highly successful students part 11

Acquiring the habits of highly successful students part 11

Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeling stress and pressure, and both factors will probe disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I frequently give is that, when you are assigned a homework, try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and don’t submit it immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students 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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Highly successful students part 9

Highly successful students part 9

·         They concentrate on the process of solving the task and understanding the involved ideas. Of course we are interested in getting good results, but the process is more important. A result is a very brief moment of life, while learning to develop processes is a skill that will last for the whole life.

·         They interpret and analyze errors as a way of increasing their learning, i.e., they try to learn from their mistakes. This way, they see errors and failures as opportunities.

·         They look the required information in several channels (books, journals, newspapers, experts, internet, and so on.)

·         They consult experts and teachers frequently. This action provides a new perspective about the studied topics.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part7

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part7

Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do you have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspect –life within and life without; internal life and external life –and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have 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 Part 6

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 6

 

If you prefer to play videogames, then remember that making any video 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 hoe 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 affection and our chores. And such links there always exist. Remember, to link ideas and a concept 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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Acquiring Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 5

Acquiring Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 5

 

2- Success is about achieving goals, and therefore is 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 to play videogames. Now, try to establish associations or links between these favorite activities of yours and the subject of study that you dislike literature (you perhaps think  it’s an 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 its role would be and how he would interact with other characters in the novel.

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“A CTR champion is a person who makes a great human out of himself” –Noemi Trigueros (HPHS STUDENT 2010-11)

Reflection: we have to always CTR and do good things to inspire the other people to choose the right too.