Saturday, October 15, 2011

Habits Of Mind





Considerable research demonstrates that successful people in almost any walk of life display certain characteristics or dispositions. I call them habits of mind

They are patterns of thinking and behaving in intelligent ways and are displayed when confronted with life’s dilemmas and problems.

We want our children to develop those habits that lead them to become lifelong learners, effective problem solvers and decision makers, able to communicate with a 
diverse population, and to understand how to live successfully in a rapidly changing, high-tech world. 

Now the BIG question is --How do we develop these Habits or  any Habit for that matter?


Somethings which we do unconsciously now as an habit ,started with a conscious beginning.
We were consciously aware of it in the starting stages and later on with repetitions it became habit followed unconsciously by us.


We go through lots of experiences which are our source of learning , which make us aware of certain characteristics but just experiences along doesn't lead to learning otherwise we would have had learned so many things just by plain experiences.


What experiences alone miss out on is the reflection and our thoughts about it.
Our reflections and thoughts on our experiences takes us through journey of exploring, experimenting and discovering characteristics.


Keep Discovering .










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