Awareness in doing

16 August 2009 By yogi wonders 0 In The A* Mindset

I had a conversation with one of my students and she was ranting about the gozillion piles of homework dumped upon her from school. Each and every single one to be completed in tight timeline. I can sense her helplessness and exasperation. The just-get-over-and-done-with-it mentality set in and all she wanted is to complete the work, just for the sake of finishing. The goal was to avoid further scrutiny and nagging from the school teachers.

Now, it takes time to do work, no doubt. However, the motivation behind doing the work is as important as physically finishing off the work. So I shared with her, rather than just finishing up for the sake of finishing (ie, just littering the paper with words), take a step further, and use the work as a platform to learn/reaffirm/confirm her understanding on the topic. Bottom line, do the work with awareness. This is a huge part unexplored by students. Most students do work for the sake of finishing them, to avoid pain (ie nagging, scolding, more work etc). Little will do the work to find out where they stand, where they do not understand (and find out more henceforth) and where’s their gaps. The latter truly thrive in their learning process. In the long run, the conscious learning with awareness from the questions beats repeated unaware drilling on both effort and time many folds. Soon, the learning is integrated and it becomes easier to handle future questions from similar topics. Agony is lessen.

Key is awareness.

Just like learning to cycle on a bicycle. The starting needs more attention – how you balance, how your legs step on the pedal, how you steer your wheels, the coordination and the surrounding. All this takes awareness. When you finally get the grip on it, cycling becomes a breeze, all you got to do now is pedal on and enjoy the view

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