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Peak Performance: Success In College And Beyond

Discover the characteristics of a peak performer, self-management techniques for success, and create a personal mission statement for academic and job achievement.

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Peak Performance: Success In College And Beyond

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  1. Peak Performance:Success In College And Beyond Chapter 1: Be a Lifelong Learner

  2. Learning Outcomes • List the characteristics of a peak performer • Identify self-management techniques for academic, job, and personal achievement • Create a personal mission statement

  3. Learning Outcomes • Identify skills and competencies for school and job success • Integrate learning styles and personality types • Describe the adult learning cycle

  4. Success Principle 1Focus on your STRENGTHS,not weaknesses.

  5. What Is A “Peak Performer”? Peak performers… • Take responsibility for their actions, behaviors, and decisions • Know their learning styles and preferences and how to maximize their learning • Take risks and move beyond secure comfort zones • Use critical thinking to solve problems creatively • Make sound judgments and decisions

  6. What Is A “Peak Performer”? • Are effective at time and self-management • Seek out and utilize available resources • Build supportive relationships • Continually acquire new skills and competencies • Remain confident and resilient • Are motivated to overcome barriers • Take small, consistent steps that lead to long-term goals

  7. Self-Management: The Key To Reaching Your Peak • Positive attitude • Self-assessment • Critical thinking skills • Visualization and affirmations • Reflection

  8. Discover Your Purpose:A Personal Mission Statement Begin by answering these questions: • What do I value most in life? • What is my life’s purpose? • What legacy do I want to leave?

  9. Skills For School And Job Success • Basic Skills • Thinking Skills • Personal Qualities • Technology • Systems • Information • Resources “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung Psychologist

  10. Discover Your Learning Style • Left Brain (linguistic and factual) • Right Brain (visual and intuitive) Integrate both sides of the brain

  11. Discover Your Learning Style Are you a reader, a listener, or a doer? • Visual learners • Auditory learners • Kinesthetic learners

  12. Discover Your Learning Style Redefining Intelligence: Other Learning Styles • Verbal/linguistic • Logical/mathematical • Spatial • Musical

  13. Discover Your Learning Style • Bodily/kinesthetic • Environmental • Intrapersonal • Interpersonal

  14. Discover Your Personality Type • Carl Jung’s Typology System • Extroverts Versus Introverts • Sensors Versus Intuitives • Thinkers Versus Feelers • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator • Judgers Versus Perceivers

  15. Analyzers Supporters Creators Directors Connect Learning Styles and Personality Types: The Four-Temperament Profile

  16. Integrate Styles To Maximize Learning Peak Performance Learning Pyramid • Read • Listen to lecture • Watch and observe experience • Discuss and analyze experience • Relate experience to self • Integrate reflection with research and facts

  17. Integrate Styles To Maximize Learning • Build a model to simulate experience • Write about the experience and make it relevant • Teach experience to others and explain • Practice • Practice doing again and again

  18. The Adult Learning Cycle • Reflect • Do • Teach • Relate • Observe

  19. Overcome Obstacles • Adjust your learning style to your instructor’s teaching style • Make it simple “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” Lou Holtz College football coach

  20. Peak Performance:Success In College And Beyond Chapter 1: Be a Lifelong Learner

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