for our first 2 lessons we had a thing called motivation and study skills day, i don't know if any other schools have this but it is just a man talking to us about ways we can study and stuff.
I learnt that i am a right brain thinker, this means i am a big picture learner, i like pictures,colors and i am quite creative, i also learnt that because of this i should play music in the background when i am learning because it will help my brain take everything in.
There was also a table we could do to work out wither we where a visual learner (seeing things), auditory learner (hearing things) or kinaesthetic learner (doing things)
from this i learnt that i am a kinaesthetic learner, this means while studying i should walk up and down as it keeps the brain focused and the body calm and that i should take physical breaks- stretch,sing,dance,move.
If you would like a go of finding out what kind of learner you are i'm sure there are lots of tests and stuff on the internet but if you want i will type out the sheet in another post.
The other thing the man talked about was motivation,
in a booklet we got asked a series of questions which i will type out because i found them very interesting,
- do you ever think about what you really want?
- do you know simple rules in life?
- do you choose to make things happen, or allow it?
- do you wish to change the way things are, or prefer to sit back and let life pass you by?
- are you passionate about something, anything?
- do you have goals in the short, medium and long term?
- what is success?
- what is failure?
- what is passion?
- what is your "purpose"
After this i really questioned my outlook on things, when there's something i want to do i will wait for it to happen when really if i want something that bad i should work for it otherwise its never going to happen.
On the 'what is success?' question the man said, "fall down seven times stand up eight"
He also showed us a quote which said "weather you think you can or cant do it your probably right" which basically means if you doubt yourself your not going to do what you want to do, which i something that had really stuck in my brain.
For some reason this really interests me so i hope it will you as well,
feel free to comment,
thankyou for reading :)
