“When failure isn’t an option, nothing serves a person better than strategic thinking,” JC Maxwell wrote in “Thinking for A change. “ Your academic study plan is made easy through strategic thinking. Strategic thinking involves asking and answering four basic fundamental questions to make the most out of education.
Knowing the purpose for which you’re alive is the first step towards making the most out of education. No one is able to determine your individual purpose. Purpose is exclusive to the individual. You alone know what you want out of life.
A good health, solid financial status, booming business, whatever your heart desires, acquiring knowledge in the relevant field through education will get you there. It begins with setting achievable goals and there is no better place than school to shape your purpose in life through studies.
“Let me think about it,” you say. You very well can give answer to this or any question right away. Yet, it’s wise and advisable to think over things, weigh advantages and disadvantages before making the decision.
Most learning comes from informal education. You spoon pleasant and unpleasant childhood experiences all the time. None of these experiences are available in a classroom situation. You want to know the significance of informal education? Watch kids play.
You evaluate things to gain new insights into life. School is a window into the wide world of experience. If you make the most of your student time, you would not ask why you’re in school rather what you stand to gain from academic studies.
Human beings are social by nature. There is nothing wicked about getting together with others to hang out. The challenge is to resist the temptation to go overboard and let social activities run and ruin your student life.
Hang out a lot and panic strikes during exam time. You’ve recurrent headaches prior to tuning in term papers, taking exams. Now you know the reason. You did not spend quality time in preparation for any of these exercises. You were out partying instead of studying. Boom! Deadline to hand in assignment, term paper cannot be postponed, so you throw yourself into working overtime. If you budget your time, you would not have panic attack.
You’re what you think. You just haven’t given it your best shot yet. Make time, study smartly and the coast of your future life becomes clear.
“I studied hard and diligent. Look what I’ve got,” you utter in bewilderment. Your dismal performance in comparison with other students is a reflection of the time you put into studies. All students study hard for exams. Not all students study smartly. The secret is in the quality of each minute of the hour you commit to studies.
Smart study involves knowing purpose, thinking strategically, budgeting study time and focusing on the ultimate education payback price at the end of the study course.
“Anything that has been learned can be re-evaluated and challenged. Anything that has been challenged can be relearned…,“ Maxwell Maltz wrote in Psycho Cybernetics 2000, updated by Bobbe Sommer. You’re keen on improving your present performance in anticipation of future success in academic studies. Evaluate your past performance in light of future success through flashback. You will be guided by asking and answering six simple questions.
How did I do in the past? What did I do right to excel in one or the other subject? Where did I foul up? Which method of study worked and which ones did not work? When was I at my best? Why did I perform dismally at one stage of education and not the other?
Think of your present situation in school. Evaluate your past to improve the present in anticipation of the future by asking four questions suggested above to assist you clarify the significance of education.
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