habit 6: synergize

                          7 habits of highly successful teens
                                            habit 6

Habit 6: synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either could be alone. Through this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergy allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. synergy is the reward, the delicious fruit you’ll taste as you get better at living the other habits, especially at thinking Win-Win and seeking first to understand. Learning to synergize is like learning to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you’ll go. Synergy doesn’t just happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is this: learn to celebrate differences.

A good band is a great example of synergy. It’s not just the drums, or the guitar, or the sax, or the vocalist, it’s all of them together that make up the
“sound.” Each band member brings his or her strengths to the table to create something better than each could alone. No instrument is more important than another. Just different.

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successful students

                       Successful students
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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education , and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade. You earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep, or , you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.
2. . . have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answer to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factor in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else's, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. if you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tired of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren't and don't, everything can and will !

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