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DISCOVERING YOURSELF

Chapter 1

Why How What

What if…

• Success starts

with telling the truth.

• Skim this

chapter for three

techniques you’d

like to try this

week.

• I could start to

create new

outcomes?

• Power Process:

Ideas are Tools

• The Discovery

Wheel

• Learning Styles

• Multiple

Intelligences

• VAK

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•People limit their openness to ideas...but not to

tools.

•By simply considering the strategies in this course

as tools, you’ll be more open to try them.

•As you read the text and listen in class, think of the

ideas you experience as tools.

• If they work for you, use them.

• If they don’t work, put them on the shelf. Maybe

they’ll be useful later.

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IDEAS ARE TOOLS

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• Activity 1: Figure out the tools you need to get each job done:

• Think of 5 ideas (beliefs) that were once held true but have been proven false over time (i.e. the Earth is flat).

• Think of 5 currently generally held ideas or beliefs that you believe could be found false in the future.

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IDEAS ARE TOOLS

Power Up Now

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• Activity 2: In a group, discuss the different tools (method, habit, or approach) each person uses for the following:

• Share with the entire class three of the activities or tasks the group discussed.

Note takingMemorizationWriting an essayPreparing a presentationGetting to sleep at nightLosing weight

ExercisingFinding a jobChoosing a petAsking someone on a dateTraveling to classPlanning a class schedule

IDEAS ARE TOOLS

Power Up Now

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Truth is a key to

Mastery

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Dave Ellis, author

Becoming A Master Student

TheDiscovery Wheel

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TheDiscovery Wheel

What did you discover

about yourself?

What do you want to keep

doing?

What do you want to do

differently?

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PERCEIVING

PROCESSING

How we take

information in

How we think

about that

information

Learning StylesDiscovering how you learn

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Learning Styles

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Ask yourself 3 questions using the words that are not your preferred style.

Balancing YourPreferences

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• Bodily/Kinesthetic

• Visual/Spatial

• Mathematical/Logical

• Verbal/Linguistic

• Musical/Rhythmic

• Intrapersonal

• Interpersonal

• Naturalist

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Claim YourMultiple Intelligences

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Visual

Auditory

Kinesthetic

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•You perceive by seeing

visual learning

•You perceive by hearing

auditory learning

•You perceive by moving

kinesthetic learning

Learning By TheVAK SYSTEM

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• Remembering recalling an idea

• Understanding explaining an idea in your own words and giving personal examples

• Applying using an idea to produce a result

• Analyzing dividing an idea into parts

• Evaluating rating the truth, usefulness, or quality of an idea and giving reasons

• Creating inventing something new

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SIX PATHS to more powerfulTHINKING