Habits of the Mind

Every human in this world has strengths and weaknesses in terms of habits of mind. Habits of minds are ways to behave more intelligently and they are present in everyone. The difference between people is that they are all stronger in different habits of mind. In the story, “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, the main character, Junior, uses his strengths in applying past knowledge to new situations, taking responsible risks and persisting to solve many problems that he faces throughout the book. These strengths help him succeed throughout the book.

Deliberate practise focuses not only on “learning by doing” but on incorporating clear learning objectives and giving immediate and constructive feedback to the learner. It allows learners to address their weaknesses through repetitive practice. These elements are what make deliberate practise crucial in the attainment of expert

Deliberate practice is a type of learning that requires a focused effort to improve importance. It is a long process, but it is found to be more effective than just relying on memorization, or automaticity. It’s a type of learning that can help anyone refine their skills, or learn new tasks. There are several steps one needs to take to learn deliberate practice effectively. These steps are similar to those of self-regulated learning. “Self-regulation refers to self-generated thoughts, feelings and actions that are strategically planned and adapted to the attainment of personal goals” (Zimmerman 2000, 2006).

1. McMillan demonstrates that the only way to fix the American eating habits is to consider the issue of social classes when discussing about the best eating habits that promotes health and fitness.

When I was a child, I had a need for perfection in my academic pursuits - I focused on getting every question on my tests right. My father would shake his head disapprovingly at this strategy. He told me, “education is not only what you learn, but also how you will put what you learned into use.” At the time, I couldn’t understand what he meant, but as I grew older, realizing that it’s impossible to memorize every detail I read, I understood the importance of making my knowledge practical.

I have notice that you're not as motivated on schoolwork as you need to be. Which is something I’m willing on helping you achieve it. Having a Fixed Mindset can affect you in many ways. Therefore, I’m seeing that is affecting you in school. You think that you are not smart enough and/or can not do certain things. Let me tell you that you are wrong. In order to success you first fail. It may sound ridiculous but believe it is true. Not everybody is successful at their first try. Not everybody is born smart. Many people fails so many times that they lose hope but that is the point of failing because you get to push yourself farther to reach your goal and learn from mistakes. That is the number one step in Growth Mindset not giving up. Asking for help is also a big step in everything. Hence, do not believe that abilities can not be improved.

According Costa and Kallick (2009) the Habits of Mind are an important values educators need to teach students. For instance, one of the first things an educator can do is build awareness for the Habits of Mind. The familiarity may coming by asking some

Carol S. Dweck, a psychologist, filmed one of her lectures in 2012 called “The Power of Believing.” In this video, she points out potential flaws in the education system. She points out that one of the reasons kids fail in school is mainly based on what mindset is put in a child’s mind during early education. Throughout the video, Dweck discussed two types of mindsets that people categorize into —fixed mindset and growth mindset.

Concentration and Intelligence In the article of “ How To Be A Genius” the author Samantha Boardman described a story of Yitang Zhang who was a math professional, and solved the math problem. He said that concentration was the point that he could solve that problem. In addition, he explained that people should have effort and plan for having concentration because it will not happen by chance. Therefore, he indicates five ways in order to increase your skill for concentration.

Aggression is a learned behavior followed by the genes because primates as well as humans learn all these kind of behaviors through their parents and through the circumstances in which they are in. The nonhuman primates have to learn to be aggressive in order to survive out in the wild, if they do not learn to be aggressive they will be an easy target for others to attack. In the human society it is also a learned behavior in order to survive everyday basis. There is a lot of shootings, death, bullying going around so in order to survive they need to be aggressive and let others know they are not the ones to come for.

I finished reading the Power of habit Book, and a lot of things I used to do it without even think about now it called habit? This book it’s a magnificent resource for people in general people. It doesn’t matter what level you are in business arena or you are retired. I liked how the author Mr. Duhigg structured, generate and link a phenomenal number of research studies, practical involvements, and corporate research into an understandable summary of how habits are designed and how we can change them.

My works meets curiosity of “Habits of Mind” from the CWPA “Framework” document”. In both of my works, I demonstrated curiosity by conducting research and discovering more about my surrounding and myself. In “Discourse Community”, I conducted a research on programming group and discovered that my computer design group is not simply a group but a community that work toward common goals with many aspects of a discourse community described by Swales. In “Analysis of Study Habits”, I researched my study habit and its correlation with grade and I discovered different study habits and how they affect grade. This information allows me to change my study habit and get a better grade in my class. This meets the curiosity requirement because

In a state of dilemma, individuals find it interesting when people confronted with life’s problems. The way people behave when the answers to which are not immediately known. Different situation, people have to think of different technique to solve the problems. Analyzing a poem is different from analyzing statistical data. Both are related to analyzing but the mind has to be aware of each situation to apply in any cases. Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind talks about sixteen ways people use when it comes to describing the Habits of Mind. Curiosity is what motivates deep thinking when questioning and posing problems habit. The bravery to take responsible risks habit and listening with understand and empathy habit when hearing stories from others. For me, one of the most important habit that I have learned the most is responsible risks. Being greedy and wanted to be success in two categories is not going to work, I have to decide on letting go of one and remain focus on the one that I am planning to take the risk on.

John Howard and Sasha Grey have once said “The Capacity to reach achievable answers to a difficult issue. But, sometimes you needed to analyze the situation.” Additionally, Arthur had to trust himself to motive that he will be able to make it. Not knowing it was going to be a king or not. Life always works with persistence or will disappear throughout time. Learning to become right and wrong with the decision humidity makes. In the section sword of the stone by Thomas Malory’s D’Arthur how persistence can be given in life? Or will it be always necessary to have it? How it will repeat itself and until it can be changed. Arthur, Sir Ector, Sir Kay, Archbishop and the nobles how they are given the test of Arthur being the rightful king. Prove himself, Commoners said the final word, the nobles begged forgiveness, and Arthur swore to be a great king. Throughout the obstacles in life that are also in the modern life. Central theme in the section Sword in the Stone is Persistence is necessary to achieve difficult / Impossible good.

According to the author Prentice (2013), perception as taking advantage of familiarity with the world born of habits, that implicit sedimentary body of knowledge; embodied skills of medical residents shape surgical perception of accumulated knowledge and practice to operate with sensations. Surgeons are able to navigate to a location for a specific organ or a tissue without seeing it in an open operative surgery, and surgeons’ bodies had already synthesized the look, feel, and motions of a specific region of the body. They are able to find that region of the body and take out the tissue that creates damage or ruin on the function of an organ. Dr. Marcos and Dr. Nick have a surgery for a klatskin’s tumor removal at top of bile duct, they need to find out the path of vena cava virtually by following vessel’s path and slipped an instrument under the liver to lift it without see it (Prentice, 2013). In addition, with the embodied skill surgeons are able to utilize touch, gesture, and language to overcome their inability to see, and they continue to work effectively with loss of sight. Dr. Nick and Dr. Marcos continued work properly and effectively when the anesthesiologist’s machines broke down; Dr. Nick placed his hand inside the abdominal cavity and ask the anesthesiologist repeatedly to ensure the patient’s blood pressure is ok (Prentice, 2013). They used a manual backup to ensure the patient’s blood pressure was adequate even they cannot see the number. The embodied skills