The Science of Student Success [STEP 1]
TECHINIQUE 1
Believe It and Go For It!
TECHNIQUE 2
Stop Saying "I Can't..."
EXCUSE 2
I'm Just Not Talented Enough.
EXCUSE 3
It's Too Late
EXCUSE 1
It's Just Not Possible.
You don't need to be born a genius. Natural talent isn't that important to success. No school exam is an IQ test.
The question is not 'Can you do well?' or 'Can you get the mark you want?' but, 'Will you believe and will you do the that the goal requires?'
The "I Can't" Syndrome
Success starts in the mind. Stop selling yourself short.
A great result is not impossible. There is a major difference better hard and impossible. It only becomes impossible the moment you give up and stop trying.
Anything is possible! Nothing is impossible!
Belief is 100% certainty that you can achieve whatever it is you set out to achieve. Self-belief is the door to success but without action, you can rest assured that you won't reach your goal.
Success is kind of like a pyramid. It is built on that first layer of stones called belief.
There's still time. There is always time to change.
Believing in you: Its time to start believing. Believe in getting the marks you want. Believe in yourself when no one else believes in you.
The Effects
How to Eliminate it.
2. You Sabotage Chances of Success
If you are saying these things to yourself, there is no way on Earth that you will perform well. What you are doing is expecting to fail.
What happens to you, is that you end up sabotaging youself.
1. You don't attempt.
When you say that phrase you are expecting to fail and there never seems to be much point in attempting.
For example, if you convinced yourself you would die, would you jump? Exactly.
If you think you can't, you will settle for second best.
You need to take those words out of your vocabulary by using a process called Re-framing.
Re-framing is simply the process of positive thinking. Make it habit.
Right before or after you say something negative, you need to automatically re-frame and counter is with something positive. Re-frame the word "can't" to "can". By doing this your brain actually begins to focus on finding a way to do it.
Understanding the Syndrome
Over the course of the hard year, students get too caught up in what is going wrong and start to think negatively.
When something is difficult, frustrating or disappointing, we normally say "I can't".
Sound familiar? Is there anything you say you can't do? Maybe it's time management, a subject or a topic within a subject?
By Shandia G. & A'Janae R.