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Table
of Contents
CHAPTER
1: First Steps
In
this Chapter... - 6
First Step: Truth is a key to mastery - 7
If you skipped the introduction... - 8
Exercise: Taking the First Step - 9
The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry System - 10
Exercise: Deface this book - 11
Seven Discovery & Intention Statement guidelines - 12
Exercise: The Discovery Wheel - 14
Creating & using portfolos - 18
Artifects for your portfolio - 19
Power Process #1: Ideas are tools - 20
Exercise: Maybe it's your breath - 21
Learning styles: Discovering how you learn - 22
Using your learning style profile to succeed in school - 23
Resources on learning styles - 24
Exercise: Recall an enjoyable experience - 25
The Master Student - 26
Maslow's qualities of a self-actualizing person -29
Master Student: Veronica Espinoza - 30
Quiz - 31
Learning Style Application - 33
Bibliography - 33
CHAPTER
2. Time
In
this chapter... - 34
You've got the time - 35
Exercise: The Time Monitor/Time Plan process - 36
Exercise: Create a lifeline - 41
25 ways to get the most out of now - 42
Keep going? - 43
Reap the benefits: Extracurricular activites - 48
Overcome computer addiction - 49
Time management for right-brained people - 50
Planning sets you free - 53
Strategies for scheduling - 56
Strategies for long-term planning - 59
Gearing up: Using a long-term planner - 62
The seven-day antiprocrastination plan - 65
The ABC daily to-do's - 67
Exercise: Are you getting there? - 69
Power Process #2: Be here now - 70
Master Student: Malcolm X - 74
Quiz - 75
Learning Style Application - 77
Bibliography - 77
CHAPTER
3. Memory
In
this chapter... - 78
You never forget - 79
The memory jungle - 80
20 memory techniques - 82
Set a trap for your memory - 87
Remembering your car keys...or anything else - 87
Give your "secret brain" a chance - 88
Notable failures, Part one - 88
Remembering names - 90
Mnemonic devices - 91
Exercise: Be a poet - 93
Notable failures, Part two - 94
Exercise: Master review schedule - 94
Power Process #3: Love your problems
- 98
Exercise: Move from problems to solutions - 101
Master Student: Helen Keller - 102
Quiz - 103
Learning Style Application - 105
Bibliography - 105
CHAPTER
4. Reading
In
this Chaper... 106
Muscle reading - 107
How muscle reading works - 108
Before you read: Pry out questions - 110
While you read: Root up answer - 112
After you read: Recite, review & review (again) - 114
The Universal Law of Reading - 116
Exercise: It's hard to know what's going on...until you have
the big picture - 116
Studying with children underfoot - 118
Exercise: Make it a habit - 122
Reading fast - 123
When reading is tough - 124
Read with a dictionary in your lap -125
Exercise: Relax - 125
Motivation or "I'm just not in the mood" - 126
English as a second language - 128
Library: The buried treasure - 129
Exercise: Find it - 131
Treasure-hunting on the Internet 131
Exercise: Catalog reconnaissance - 131
Power Process: Notice your pictures and
let them go - 132
Master Student: Barbara Jordan
- 134
Quiz - 135
Learning Style Application - 137
Bibliography - 137
CHAPTER
5. Notes
In
this chapter... - 138
The note-taking process flows - 139
Observe - 140
Record - 143
Exercise: The in-class oxygenator - 147
Review - 148
Exercise: Television note taking - 149
Exercise: Apply a process - 150
Improving your handwriting - 151
Power Process #5: I create it all - 152
Exercise: They made me do it - 155
When instructors talk fast - 156
Get to the bones of your book with concept maps - 156
Taking notes while reading - 157
Learning across borders: Getting the most from distance learning
- 158
Taking notes on your journey: The art of journal writing - 160
Master Student: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- 162
Quiz - 163
Learning Style Application - 165
Bibliography - 165
CHAPTER
6. Tests
In
this Chapter... - 166
Disarm tests - 167
What to do before the test - 168
What to do during the test - 170
F is for feedback, not failure - 172
Words to watch for in essay questions - 172
The cost of cheating - 173
Have some fun! - 173
Ways to predict test questions - 174
Let go of test anxiety - 175
Exercise: Twenty things I like to do - 177
Exercise: Rehearse for success - 178
Overcoming math and science anxiety - 179
Special techniques for taking math and science tests - 183
How to cram (even through you shouldn't) - 185
8 reasons to celebrate mistakes- 186
Exercise: Master mind map (part one) - 186
Power Process #6: Detach - 188
Cooperative learning: Study with people - 190
Master Student: Fred Smith - 192
Quiz - 193
Learning Style Application - 198
Bibliography - 198
CHAPTER
7. Diversity
In
this Chapter... - 196
Living with diversity - 197
Diversity is real--and valuable - 198
Exercise: Clarify your values - 199
Communicating
across cultures - 200
Adapting to the culture of higher education - 204
Learn the language of higher education - 205
The art of reentry - 206
Stay tuned to these networks - 208
Plug into school resources - 210
Plug into community resources - 211
Dealing with sexism... and sexual harassment - 212
Students with disabilities: Ask for what you want - 214
Exercise: Explore stereotypes - 215
Power Process #7: Choose your conversations
and your community - 216
Master Student: Jamie Escalante - 220
Quiz - 221
Learning Style Application - 223
Bibliography - 233
CHAPTER
8. Thinking
In
this Chapter... - 224
Critical thinking: A survival skill - 225
Finding "aha!" - Creative fuels critical thinking -
227
Tangram - 227
Techniques for creative thinking - 228
Asking questions - 230
The value of higher education - 232
Qualities of a critical thinking - 234
Core skills for critical thinkers - 235
Finding a critial thinker in yourself and others - 235
Becoming a critical thinker - 236
Create on your feet - 240
Uncovering assumptions - 241
Exercise: Working with assumptions - 242
Ways to fool yourself - 243
Thinking critically about information on the Internet - 244
Gaining skill at decision making - 245
Divide and conquer your goals - 246
Warning: Advertisers can be dangerous to your health - 248
Power Process #8: Find a bigger problem
- 250
Exercise: Fix-the-world brainstorm - 251
4 problem-solving steps
Exercise: Translating goals into action - 253
Master Student: Margaret Mead - 256
Quiz - 257
Learning Style Application - 259
Bibliography - 259
CHAPTER
9. Writing
In
this chapter... - 260
Writing well pays - 261
Phase I: Getting ready to write - Creating something from nothing
- 262
Exercise: Free writing - 264
Exercise: Create a working title - 264
Phase 2: Writing the first draft - Getting down to it- 265
Phase 3: Revising your draft - Polishing your creation - 267
Misplaced modifier poses threat of suffocation - 269
Seven steps to nonsexist writing - 270
Giving credit where credit is due: Avoiding the high cost of plagerism
- 271
Getting connected: Entering cyberspace - 272
Overcoming Technophobia - 273
Finding what you want on the Internet - 274
Some places to start surfing the web - 275
Using computers to manage ideas and information - 276
Ways to waste time with a computer - 277
Learning the language of computers - 278
Staying up-to-date with technology - 281
Writing and delivering speeches - 282
Power Process #9: Risk being a fool -
284
Master Students: Jerry Yang & David
Filo - 286
Quiz - 287
Learning Style Application - 289
Bibliography - 289
CHAPTER
10. Relationships
In
this Chapter... - 290
The communication loop - 291
Listening - 292
Sending - 295
Five ways to say "I" - 296
Exercise: Write an "I" message - 297
You deserve compliments - 297
Practice "netiquette - 298
The fine art of conflict management - 299
Conflict management in a nutshell - 302
Developing self-esteem 304
Emotional pain is not a sickness - 306
Suicide - 307
Claiming your multiple intelligences - 308
Relationships can work - 310
Relationships change - 311
Create your instructor - 312
Power Process #10: Employ your word -
314
Exercise: Move from obligation to choice - 316
Seven steps to effective complaints - 317
We are all leaders - 318
Leaders on leadership - 320
Exercise: V.I.P.'s (Very Important Persons) - 321
Master Student: Golda Meir - 322
Quiz - 323
Learning Style Application - 325
Bibliography - 325
CHAPTER
11. Money & Health
In
this Chapter... - 326
Money in, money out - 327
The source of money problems - 328
Increase money in - 329
Decrease money out - 331
Free fun - 333
Money for the future - 334
Education's worth it... - 336
Exercise: Education by the hour - 337
Seventeen places to find money - 337
We live like royalty - 338
Take care of your machine - 339
Your machine: Fuel it - 340
Exercise: Setting your bio-alarm - 340
Your machine: Move it - 341
Your machine: Rest it - 342
Your machine: Observe it - 343
Your machine: Protect it - 344
Stay up-to-date on STDs - 347
The experts recommend: Seven dietary guidelines - 347
Crazed glazed donut runs amok - 349
Power Process #11: Surrender - 350
Some facts - 352
Alcohol, tobaco & drugs: The truth - 352
Exercise: Addiction, how do I know... - 353
Seeing the full scope of addiction - 354
Where to turn for more information on recovery - 355
Master Student: Christopher Reeve - 356
Quiz - 357
Learning Style Application - 359
Bibliography - 359
CHAPTER
12. What Next?
In
this Chapter... - 360
Now that you're done--begin - 361
"...use the following suggestions to continue..." -
362
Exercise: Do something you can't - 363
Attitudes, affirmations & Visualizations - 354
Attitude replacements - 365
Exercise: Reprogram your attitude - 366
Exercise: This book shouts, "Use me!" - 367
"But I don't know what I want to do" - 368
Majors for the taking - 369
Changing schools - 370
Exercise: Discovery Wheel--coming full circle - 372
Contributing: The art of selfishness - 375
Service learning - 377
Career Planning: Begin now - 378
Cruising for jobs on the internet - 380
Job skills for the new millennium - 281
Link to the world of work - 282
Exercise: Apply these strategies to your work - 384
Power Process #12: Be it - 386
Exercise: Define your values - 388
Exercise: Master mind map (part two) - 388
Master Student: Raul Julia - 390
Quiz - 391
Learning Style Application - 393
Bibliography - 393
Index
- 394
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