Chapter 4 - Unlocking Your Potential

Question 1

What is the virtue of the not so gifted?

Answer 1

Perseverence

Question 2

If you change your thoughts…

Answer 2

…you can change your life. Ppl can enhance the development of their neuronal circuits by practicing thoughts that use those neurons.

Question 3

How should you relate to your successes.

Answer 3

You must be proud of them. Ppl will envy you and will want to bring you down but you must be proud of them even more.

Question 4

What to do after finishing test or homework?

Answer 4

Take a diffuse mode break and revisit it, check if it all makes sense. If you don’t do that, you refuse to use a part of your brain.

Question 5

How does overconfidence occur?

Answer 5

By studying alone for long time. Instead study with friends in order to catch where your thinking has gone astray.

Question 6

What is the hard start jump to easy technique?

Answer 6

When taking a test, start with the hardest and then jump to the easy one if blocked. This way your brain has a chance to reflect on the tougher challenges even if you are focusing on more straight forward problems.

Question 7

What to do when your stressed out?

Answer 7

1. Think “this test got me excited” instead of “This test got me afraid”
2. Do the belly breathing technique in case of panic

Question 8

Is slerp important before taking the test?

Answer 8

The most important! You can fail to recall even if you’ve learned alot if you didn’t sleep the night before the exam.