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3 Keys to Unlocking Happiness and Success in Your Students
What you were taught about success is wrong
Ever have one of those students who you know should be crushing it in your class, but instead is barely passing?
One big realization over the years is that students (and many adults) don’t understand the process of achievement and they get in their own way.
It’s not having a goal, building more grit, or having you push them harder.
It is understanding the role and order happiness and success play in students’ lives.
Shawn Achor’s gave me the key to my own success and happiness, and it might help you and your students find it as well.
Shift Your View, Change Your Life
We are taught from a young age that we perceive the world around us and that when the things around us change, our perceptions should change.
, however, shows that changing our perception of reality changes the world we experience.
This plays a huge role in how students look at their classes and teachers. If they think a class and/or teacher are useless and boring, then the class will be just that. If they can shift that perception to, “I can learn something…
