Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 5

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 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 thinks it’s an utterly boredom) but love  your humongous pit-bull 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 you have to analyze: what its role would be and how he would interact with other characters in the novel  

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Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 2

If we are to succeed in life, we must hone our learning skills

1-       The first step in this direction is to sincerely point out the driving force or motivation. Let’s relax, and start listing the reasons that impel you to study some topic, as crude as they may be. It’s possible that your list is empty. Don’t worry it only means that you have not identified any reason to study the chosen and very specific point (it’s for sure that you are an excellent learner in other areas of life). If you don’t have any motivation to study, then give, the list of reasons why you don’t study, and please note that the list cannot be empty. Whether you found a huge list of driving forces or a list of reasons not to study, the end product of this step comprises at least one item (A positive or negative driving force)