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The Student Mindset: A 30-item Toolkit For Anyone Learning Anything
The best and brightest tend to achieve their desired outcomes. They do this through adhering to behaviours, procedures, and strategies, rather than relying purely upon their talents and abilities, to produce desired outcomes. In ‘The Student Mindset’, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin offer simple, practical, and entertaining techniques to aid students in organising their study time so they too can enjoy successful learning.
The two authors have determined the five crucial qualities and behaviours that all students need in order to achieve their goals: vision, effort, systems, practice, and attitude (VESPA).
These attributes outweigh cognitive abilities by a wide margin, and Steve and Martin offer a ready-made set of study ideas, approaches, and tactics that are intended to foster these qualities and improve your motivation, commitment, and productivity.
Although the book’s 30 exercises are grouped thematically by VESPA themes, they are organised around six important learning phases so that you can identify which phase you need to work with before selecting from the variety of tools and approaches to support it. The six co-existing key phases are preparation; starting study; collecting and shaping; adapting, testing and performing; flow and feedback; and dealing with the dip.
The exercises in this book have been created to help you gain control and improve as a learner by sharing workload management techniques and revision strategies linked to calm, focused study which, eventually, will help you to earn good results. At each point, you’ll face challenges and learn new ways of working. This superb practical guide to becoming a successful and confident student elegantly packages these skills, which include a variety of efficient prioritisation, stress reduction, procrastination-busting, and mindset development approaches.
John Morris, Director at JTM Educational Consultants, commented: “This is a truly brilliant text, overflowing with tricks and tactics which will enable learners to boost to boost their performance levels by adopting the routines, strategies and habits of those who have succeeded or who currently do well.” We think you may agree.
