Mindsets
Your ________ brain is the wise and responsible friend who helps you think ahead and delay gratification.
What is the "COOL" brain?
What are SMART Goals?
This routine uses three categories: what’s due tomorrow, what’s due later, and what you need to review.
What is the Daily List?
The “S” in the SMART goals acronym stands for this word.
What is Specific?
The more you work at something, the more efficient your brain becomes at doing that thing?
What is Neuroplasticity?
An experiment that was about learning to control one's impulses and focus on bigger rewards down the road.
What was the Marshmallow Experiment?
A three step approach that helps you tackle obstacles head on and turn SMART goals into reality.
What is a BSP?
This method encourages students to do homework, study, and review every single day.
What is the Triple Threat Method?
In the BSP framework, this part refers to the concrete steps or methods a student uses to overcome obstacles.
What are Strategies?
What is Deliberate Practice?
This type of mindset believes that intelligence and ability can be developed through effort and learning.
What is a growth mindset?
The “R” in the Triple Threat Method stands for this daily activity that helps lock in knowledge.
What is Review?
This day of the week is meant for preparing your calendar, reviewing notes, and getting ready for success—not starting brand new assignments.
What is Sunday Night?
This strategy for self-testing involves starting with a blank sheet of paper.
What is the Blank Paper Method?
This everyday activity, when done consistently, helps turn short-term learning into long-term growth.
What is daily review?
Someone with this mindset might say, “I’m just not a math person,” and give up easily.
What is a fixed Mindset?
These types of grades are based on effort and participation rather than accuracy.
What are completion grades?
This method of time management encourages students to do the most mentally taxing work early.
What is Do the Hard Things First?
This technique uses 15–25 minute intervals of work followed by short breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Method?
This brain-friendly habit helps you grow stronger connections by reviewing and practicing what you've learned over time.
What is spaced repetition?
According to the book, this invisible process explains how a belief can unconsciously influence a student's effort, choices, and academic outcomes—even before any action is taken.
What is the belief → action → results cycle?
When you really don't want to start something, promise yourself just ____ Minutes. Your find yourself getting into the zone.
What is the 10 minute rule.
This technique helps you break weekend time into flexible, focused blocks for school, rest, and fun.
What is chunking?
These types of challenges strengthen learning even though they feel harder in the moment.
What are desirable difficulties?
Every time you struggle through a challenging problem or skill, your brain wraps a substance called____- around the neural pathways you use.
What is Myelin?