Recognizing when you are off course.
What is the best guide to listen to when you're off course?
Inner guide
What is one way of showing interdependence in college?
Start a study group
Can a person be influenced by daily choices and old experiences they don't recall?
Yes. Some don't realize it.
What is self-awareness?
Self-awareness is the ability to be able to focus on things that are keeping a person on track and having the ability to be conscious about one's actions.
What kind of plan does a person make after accepting personal responsibility?
Self-management plan
An obstacle that stands in most people's way is...
Self-Sabotage.
What part of the brain can store emotionally charged but now unconscious memories?
Amygdala
What is something you have self-awareness about?
Each person has a different answer. All answers are correct.
What do people with a victim mindset (Inner defender or Inner critic) say or do after they don't succeed?
Give up, Blame, complain, and excuse.
What kinds of distractions appear in a students path?
Friends, Family, Technology, Personal problems, Money, Work, Parting. There are so many more.
What is Amygdala?
Hint: In the book
A nervous watchman, examines every new experience and compares it to new experiences.
How can getting distracted for a moment get us off course and make us feel?
"Some invisible force comes along and pulls us off course. By the time we realize what's happened-if, in fact we ever do-we can be miles off course and feeling miserable."
What is one question you can ask yourself when your off course?
What bad habits do I have that are throwing me off course?
How can a person get an A in a class?
Don't let other "important" things get in the way of a person succeeding, Attend class, take notes, complete assignments to the best of your ability, pay attention, focus, ask questions when having a doubt.
What can some past experiences be that can prevent a person from making wise decisions in the future and harm themselves?
List as many possible.
A student called Jerome had to dream of starting his own accounting firm by his 30th birthday. He started a study group. He had set a short-term goal. It was to get A's in all of his classes. At the end of the semester he failed 101. There were some problems that lead him to failing.
What were those things that prevented Jerome from accomplishing his short-term goal of getting A's in all the classes he took?
He skipped his accounting class three times to work at a part-time job, he didn't attend class because he was angry at his girlfriend. He missed Monday classes because he was hungover from parties. He was late because it was hard to find parking. Jerome put off doing homework until last minute due to being so busy, didn't hand in assignments because he found them confusing, and last he stopped going to the study group.
What should someone do first when they are feeling off course?
Accept personal responsibility.
Reflect and ask yourself what's keeping you off course.
What inner selves usually takes over a person negatively when making a decision?
Inner Critic and Inner Defender.
How can a person realize that they are in a sabotaging influence?
Recognizing that you are off course.
In the book they stated an example of how astronomers made a prediction to how the planets would orbit around the sun. However, Planet Uranus did not follow the predictions that they had made. Something was getting planet Uranus "off Course" but astronomers didn't know exactly why or what was preventing it. After better technology,astronomers soon discovered that what was causing Uranus to be off course was the a gravitational pull of an invisible planet. This is how Neptune was discovered.
How did the book use the example of planets to show us an example of how invisible forces exist in our lives?
HINT: Quote directly from the book.
'Like planets we all have invisible Neptune's tugging at us everyday. For us, these invisible forces are not in outer space. They exist in inner space, in our unconscious minds.
AS WITH THE PLANET URANUS, THE FIRST CLUE TO SPOTTING THE EXISTENCE OF THESE UNCONSCIOUS FORCES IS RECOGNIZING THAT WE ARE OFF COURSE."