Hello, I'm Kathy Matthews
and this is Thinking About Home.
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And I'm glad
you've joined us again.
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You know there's been so
many times that I thought
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that I would love to
have my family on here.
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And today I have the
privilege of having Sarah,
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our oldest daughter on with us.
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Sarah, thank you for being here.
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Thank you for letting me, mom.
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We have been
talking about study skills,
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because you're in college now.
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And Sarah is a student at
Weimar College in California.
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And the other day we
were discussing the importance
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of her making it
though the work study,
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and the hectic schedule
that she has in class time
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and the units that she's taking
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and its been pretty overpowering
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and... There's been
times that we wondered
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how in the world she's done it.
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So, we thought that it
would be very important
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that others may be able to learn
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some of the things
that she's learned.
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So she's gonna show us
and help us to understand
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some of the student study
skills that she's developed.
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And I think that you
find them a blessing to you
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if you're a student
and maybe in your home,
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if you're a
younger student as well,
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you might be able to
apply some of these things.
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But for the
college student especially.
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Yes, college or
even boarding academy.
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Particularly in a
boarding environment,
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because it contains
so many other factors
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than if you're just going
to school during the daytime
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and coming home to, you know,
of relaxing home environment
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or whatever your
normal home duties are.
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When you're at a
boarding environment
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you have so many
other responsibilities,
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so many other
things you have go to
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and people around all the time.
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It's not just, you know
where you can recluse home
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to just your
family in your own room
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and without other
bunch of other people around
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always demanding
your attention. Right.
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did you, did you
learn some of these skills
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at home? Did you
extend it out into the..
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Yes, yes, all these
principles that I've learned,
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that I put down on paper or
on graphics for this program.
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I got the
foundations for them at home,
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the foundation
of the principles,
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the ideas, the
basic reasons why.
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And but I didn't
fully develop them
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and put them into
my own, my own life
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until I went away
to boarding academy.
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And that was where I start
feeling out the differences
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and trying to drive
myself to become a person
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with good study habits,
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a person that
could get everything done
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that I needed to get done.
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At least when it
was humanly possible.
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And then I noticed
that in my own life
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that they've really
become very personal
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to me in college,
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because college is
very different from academy.
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In some ways you have
more time and in some ways
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it seems you're so
much more busy. Right.
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And it just depends on
which factors are playing there,
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and I know, I know I have,
I have a heavier academic load
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in college than I
did in academy. Right.
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And there's been times
when I've had other people
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come and ask me,
how do you keep up
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with the academic load
that you're taking.Yes.
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And still work half
time, 20 hours a week or more,
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and still get all your
other responsibilities done.
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And not start
failing your classes
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and not start just
pointing average grades because,
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although some people do say,
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you know people say that grades
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are only the teacher's opinion
and they don't really reflect
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the students'
performance and everything.
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The grades
aren't important to me,
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because when someone is
evaluating my performance
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in an academic environment,
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that's what they're
going to look at. Right.
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And they're not
going to look at well,
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how was the student feeling
when he took this test. Right.
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They're going to say
this is how this student did.
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And this was the basic trend
of the student's academics.
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Right, unfortunately
that's what we have to go by,
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since that's the
kind of world we're in.
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Right, in other countries,
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under a different
academic standard,
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different levels of
different forms of teaching,
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it maybe different.
But at least from America
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and most of the first
world Europe and so on.
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Grades are very important, in a,
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particularly a
college environment.
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And we've been
talking on some programs about
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the motivation of
learning and the best way
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is the natural way
and one of the areas
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that we had discovered is
it's sometimes when we learn,
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we learn best when it
has been fun, when it's been,
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the emotion has been
involved and has been enjoyable.
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That's true, that's true.
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But when you get
down to the nitty-gritty
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also and you can't, because
we're not in a perfect world
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where it's always
enjoyable and you get right down
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to the
difficulties of determination.
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Then you have to learn
some skills and in studying.
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It comes down to
self discipline. Yes.
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You know that making
learning fun is important
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especially with
younger children,
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when they're learning
the importance of learning,
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when they're first discovery
that education is important.
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And it is essential to make
it something that is enjoyable,
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but as you get older, as
you start finishing high school
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and even maybe for some
people depending on your school,
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earlier than the
late high school years.
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But particularly in
a college environment,
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learning is not always fun,
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a lot of times
it's a lot of hard work,
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there will be subjects you hate,
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there will be homework
that you do not want to do.
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And there will be
times when you have to study
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for hours to grasp a
concept that does not
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make sense to
you, and it's not fun,
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but you have to do it.
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Because that's
what is going to make
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or break your education.
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You only have to
do it if you want
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your grades to stay up there.
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Well, yes, but this
is assuming, that you..
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Yes, that you
wanna do your best.
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Desiring to do your
best to get decent grades
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and I'm not saying
that everyone needs to get A
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to do their best, but or
that an A is everyone's best.
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But in order to do your
best whatever that is for you,
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you need to be
looking at what will,
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what factors will help you
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become a well balanced, happy,
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self disciplined
person with good study skills.
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Right. Because you can have
an extremely intelligent student
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that has terrible study skills
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that will flunk an easy class.
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And you could and
not so bright student
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that may even be
academically challenged.
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May have a learning disorder,
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but if they know how to study,
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and they know how
to apply themselves,
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they know what little
things that so many others
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leave overlooked. Yes.
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They can make a better
grade than the brilliant student
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that doesn't
apply themselves. Right.
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So a lot of it is just
looking for tiny things
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that make a big difference.
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Okay, so let's begin. All right.
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What is it that
you want to stat with?
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What do you think is this thing,
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the very first important thing,
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principle which you
would like to share with us.
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But before we start
that, I'd just like to suggest
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to the audience that if you,
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if you're a parent that
would like to share this
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with your children
or your college student,
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academy student,
and you wanna get a pen
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and a piece of
paper to write these down,
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we're gonna have some
basic, very basic principles
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that are gonna be
coming up on the screen
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that will help you, if
you wanna write these down,
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make a list,
see if you can apply
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any of these into your own life,
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maybe you've
overlooked one of these.
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Maybe you've
already applied them
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and you just wanna
list them for yourself.
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If you wanna do that,
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something that
applies to our first,
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our first principle is a
text in Psalms 5 verse 3.
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And I really like to
share that you today.
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Psalms 5 verse 3 says,
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" My voice shalt
thou hear in the morning,
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O LORD, in the morning
will I direct my prayer
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unto thee, and
will look up." Amen.
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Now I think that
this must being something
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it's important
about the morning.
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I think so. I
think, and if you know
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is we also have
an example of Jesus
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rising early in the day.
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He just always spend
time with his Father in prayer
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and in study.
Particularly out in nature,
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but it was always early in
the morning, it's mentioned.
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And I think that it's
important to get up early.
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And I know that a lot
of people are cultured,
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conditioned, not
to be morning people.
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Some people are more
naturally morning people,
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and you have to
figure that out for yourself.
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But within reason I think
it's important to rise early
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and never to sacrifice
your personal time with God,
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because this sets the
tone for your entire day.
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So this is one of
the points, get up early.
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This is the first
point, get up early
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and never sacrifice
your personal time with God.
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Now this ties right into
our second principle. Okay.
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And that is always
eat breakfast and lunch.
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Always? As best you can.
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As best as possible. I
try to make it a habit.
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I will admit that there's
times when I even don't get
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all the meals I need too.
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But nutrition
affects your learning habits,
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these you need to eat well
and have good balanced meals,
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because if your
brain is not well fed
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it cannot
function properly. Right.
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Now there's
always the illustration
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I like to use this, with
you don't anywhere in your car
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with an empty gas tank.
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Before you go on a
trip, before you start the day
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you know that you need
to have gas in your car.
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That will be a preparation.
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And, yes the preparation,
but my point is in order
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to have a clear
thinking brain for the day,
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you need to have
it fed in the morning.
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And when I
emphasize breakfast and lunch
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it's for a reason,
I'll get on to that
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later as far as particularly
those two meals. Right.
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But breakfast is very
important and if you're
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getting up early you will
want to eat breakfast. Right.
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Because if you get up
really early and you wait
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all the way till the
middle of the day for lunch
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you're gonna be
starving and your brain
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is not gonna be
functioning right,
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because you're
gonna be thinking food,
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food, where is
the food? Food, food.
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And you know I got to eat.
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Well, you know
that's physical food,
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but did you put in there
anything about the spiritual?
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Well, yes, our first
principle was get up early
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to have your
personal time with God.
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Right, so left
with that purpose.
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So and then but, you know,
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after you fed
your spiritual life
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you also need to feed
your physical body. Right.
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Now, our third
principle is to use your
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spare time efficiently.
Now most people think nothing,
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this is what I've observed,
especially those young adults
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in a college
environment think nothing
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of wasting five minutes. Right.
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It's just five minutes,
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I can't sit down
and write a paper.
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I can't concentrate long
enough to get homework done,
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and that's true. I don't
know anyone that can sit down
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on a partially
written paper and actually add
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something worth while to
it, that they're gonna wanna
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keep when they go back and
edit it in five minutes. Right.
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I can't do that. Not
too many that focussed.
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Well, it's hard to
get your thoughts rolling
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and to pull everything together
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and start thinking coherently
as far as that is concerned
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within just five
minutes or six or eight or ten.
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But you think five
minutes makes a difference.
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But five minutes
will make a big difference
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if you learn to use it
to get the other things done
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that will keep you from
writing that paper later
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when you have a chunk of
time. What are the other things?
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Now you can have in
a college environment,
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you can have
laundry, you can have room,
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your room needs to be
picked up, cleaned up.
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Make you bad, tidy things,
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fold your clothes.
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You know, There are a
million little tiny things.
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You know, organize,
make a list for the day.
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You know jot down your
thoughts about something else,
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memorize a Bible
verse, something.
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There is any, there
is any number of things
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that you can do in five
minutes and it's amazing
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if you concentrate how
much you can accomplish
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in just five minutes.
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So the idea is
don't waste time, right.
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Exactly, exactly do not waste
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even the small amounts of time.
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Even the ones that don't
occur you to be important.
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King Solomon is called
the wisest man in the world,
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in world's history I suppose.
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And he has said in
Proverbs 6:6, Go to the ant,
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thou sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise:"
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And he goes on in the
following few verses to talk
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about how they
don't have a ruler,
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they don't have an overseer,
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now that's that is the
picture of a college student.
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Especially a boarding student,
you know there's authorities,
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there's deans and so on. Right.
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But you don't have your
parents right there saying,
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now you need to go and do this,
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and now you need
to go and do that.
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Come on, Johnny,
let's go do this.
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I should have been
learned long before.
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Exactly, so this is
why you want to apply
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this into your
own life now. Right.
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Okay, the fourth
principle, study your teacher.
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Why is that so
important do you think?
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Because so many students
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don't realize how
much difference it can make
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if you learn to see
the subtle differences
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in different
teachers, methods of getting
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their information across.
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Now there is different
ways that different teachers
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stress different
things, there is different ways
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different
teachers give assignments.
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Different teachers
grade on different things.
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Example, okay, I've
had teachers that grade
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on class participation,
they grade on your behavior
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in class as well
as your assignments
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and your discussion and so on.
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And I know one teacher
that if there is she keeps
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an extremely orderly classroom.
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Now a lot of
times college classrooms
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are not
extremely orderly. Right.
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Because this is no
longer elementary school
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where they turn out the lights
when you're being too noisy
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or whatever, the teacher stands
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and looks simply serious
to try to get your attention.
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So, but this teacher, all
the students in her classes
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know, you don't
talk, you don't whisper,
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you don't ask
unnecessary questions,
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you don't pass notes.
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This is a sit down, pay
attention to the teacher,
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listen to her
lecture kind of class.
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Now on the other
hand, I know another teacher
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who doesn't, who
grades only on assignments
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and you can talk,
do other homework.
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Maybe talking to
your neighbor or whatever,
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and it does not really
matter to her as much as
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it does to the other teacher.
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Of course you
don't want to be unruly,
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but if you get your
assignments turned in
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that's what your
class grade is based on.
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Learning these
subtle differences
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or not so subtle differences
can make the difference
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between an A and C.
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Now there's also different
ways that different teachers
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stress in their
lectures what is important.
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And I can't really,
I don't believe that
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I can explain how
to tell except that
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you have to learn to feel how?
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To just to sense when
the teacher is expressing
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something that
they think is important.
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Like what? What do you mean?
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Like what would it
be that they would be
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stressing that
anything is important.
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Any concept, any
particular principle,
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particularly of
science classes or whatever,
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when teachers, when teachers,
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sometime it's really easy.
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If they go over
and over and over it,
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then this is obviously
something that is going to be
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something important.
Going to be something of a test,
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right? Right, and for me
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Right, and for me and
up until the first quiz
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or the first test
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all I try to do in a
class is figure out the teacher,
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because you do not,
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you can't really
learn about a teacher
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until you've taken
their first test. Right.
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And that way
you can look back on
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what they put into the test,
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to test you on and
how they stressed each
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of these points in
their previous classes up
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until that first
test and you can learn
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how they got those across
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and if they repeated
themselves on these issues,
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or if they quietly did
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I had one teacher that
said that we might have,
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we have might have
quizzes once in while.
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She didn't an announce
there was gonna be quiz,
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but because I was alert
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and I was
waiting, watching. Right.
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One day she had a lecture
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and the majority of my
classmates did not notice
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that this was not new material.
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This was a point by point
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subtly point by point
recap of the material that
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we've covered
last two and half weeks
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at the beginning
of the class. Right.
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The beginning or we can have--
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And people say oh
well, I've heard this before,
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so I think I'll take a nap.
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And I want to shake them
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and say this is
your ticket to an A,
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hello, wake up. Yes, yes.
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Do not go to sleep
when they're doing a recap,
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because this is almost certainly
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something is going to help you
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when it comes down to showing
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what you've learned. Okay.
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And something else,
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give a teacher
your full attention,
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take notice during lectures.
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When this particular
teacher went over her recap
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I noticed that it
was former material.
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I noticed that this was
something basically points
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that we had studied
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and she was
listing them in order
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and so I took
notes, I started things
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and the textbook
that we were doing
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and it turned out that
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I had a question by
question quiz right there.
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And every point
that I had taken notes
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on was on the quiz
and needless to say,
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I felt kind of
good about myself,
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because I had, you know,
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I wasn't cheating
I was just studying.
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And here I had the
quiz in front of me. Right.
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And I realized that
after I had taken the quiz.
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And I told other
classmates, listen,
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you guys there is gonna be
a quiz the next class period.
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They said, huh!
00:17:38.50\00:17:39.47
She didn't say that
there would be a quiz,
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that okay fine, it's your grade,
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you don't have to listen to me
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and you should
of heard the groans
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when she passed
out he quiz paper
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the next class period. Right.
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But anyway--
What's the next point?
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Give the teacher
your full attention,
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that's the next point. Okay.
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And this is
kind of a no brainer,
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but a lot of times
people don't do it. Right.
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Take notes during the lectures,
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the sixth point is write
down assignments immediately.
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And you'll be surprised
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how many
students fail to do this.
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They try to rely on their memory
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and when you have
a number of classes
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and a work
assignment or a job that
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you have to do and
you have other chapels,
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meetings, responsibilities,
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outreach you're involved in,
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people you're
gonna go do things with,
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you will forget assignments.
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You will forget
when they're due,
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you might remember
in the back of your mind
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that this is
something I need to do.
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But the due date
will creep up on you.
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So what I decided to
do for this, for my own,
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this was something
I started in academy,
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and this has
proved a life saver to me.
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I think, I
remember what it is. What?
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You got a notebook.
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I got a
notebook. I got a notebook.
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I have a special notebook
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and it says "assignments."
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Big, bold, black
print across the top.
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And I put the date and the class
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and I keep it
with me in every class
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and I put down the due date
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and the specific requirements
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and the
teacher, and just exactly
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what I'm supposed to do.
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And you'll be surprised
how popular you can get,
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and this is a
ticket to popularity.
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Now when people you're used
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that as classrooms around you.
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Well this may not
be true popularity,
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but you'd be
surprised and in the class
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you have people
tapping on the shoulder,
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all the time saying,
hey wait, wait a second,
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did you write that down,
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can I take notes of each stuff,
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can I please. Did you tell me?
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What does that assignment due?
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That was due why
didn't you tell me.
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I know you always write it down
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and before long
you'll be saying,
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look, I worked for this.
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You too work for your own.
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You know they're only 50 cents
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a piece or
whatever a little notebook.
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Anyway the 7th point,
get as much homework done
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during your class
periods as possible.
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How can that be? It's possible.
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You get
homework done in a class?
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Well, what I mean is
this has to do with learning
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to study your teacher.
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Now with the
teacher who grades only
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on the assignments,
if you can learn to do
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two things at once, you
can be filling out a worksheet
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for another class,
you can be taking notes
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on her class assignments
or whatever if this is not
00:19:58.72\00:20:02.48
an important
lecture, you can tell that
00:20:02.49\00:20:04.31
the teacher's wandered off to,
00:20:04.32\00:20:06.29
when they were 25 years
old and they took a trip
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around Europe, and
this does not have anything
00:20:08.99\00:20:10.78
to do with the
class but.. Right.
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You can pull out something else
00:20:11.88\00:20:13.21
and use this time effectively
it will save you 15 minutes
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when you're, in the evening
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when you're doing your homework.
00:20:17.32\00:20:19.15
If a teacher
says, I'm giving you
00:20:19.16\00:20:20.77
the rest of this class period
to finish this assignment,
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by all means buckle down
and work on that assignment,
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go find a quiet place,
do not use that 15 minutes
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to go sit on the
grass, go check your email
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and I know I've
been guilty of this
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and I've been in trouble
for this with myself. Right.
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Because this is something
I've had to learn the hard way.
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When a teacher gives
you time to do something,
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get it done. Do that thing.
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Use that time and you'll
be thankful if you can get
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to bed half an hour
early, or you have time
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in the evening to
make that phone call,
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spend that time
with your best friend
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or write a
letter, or go to town.
00:20:51.57\00:20:53.99
or whatever else you need
to do that would be taking
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for your homework time,
you haven't gotten it done.
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Do what you need to do
when you need to do it.
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Exactly. Now Principle Number 8,
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Use verse packs
to aid memorizing.
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Verse Packs? Verse Packs.
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You know I didn't
know what that was until
00:21:08.18\00:21:10.94
you explained it
to me so what is that?
00:21:10.95\00:21:12.87
Well, you know I should
have brought one with me
00:21:12.88\00:21:15.20
to show today but I
don't have it with me.
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Basically it's a
fold-in-half tiny little vinyl
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or cloth pack with pockets,
two pockets on the inside.
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One could even make that
for themselves, I suppose.
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Make them for
themselves. Yes, I have one
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that's homemade, handmade.
00:21:30.32\00:21:32.74
Fold them in two, if it's in
a pocket, shirt pocket, purse
00:21:32.75\00:21:36.52
back pack whatever it is
that you have to carry around
00:21:36.53\00:21:39.84
with you, it's very
easy to keep with you
00:21:39.85\00:21:42.10
and you can write
down if you have say,
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Biology Concepts or excuse
me you're learning muscles
00:21:44.89\00:21:49.27
and bones for AMP or you
know like I'm taking Greek
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and I have all
those Greek vocabulary
00:21:52.84\00:21:54.45
that I'm learning and if
you can write those down.
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Not only we're
writing it down on the cards
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help to implant
them in your memory.
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But you can also
pull the card out
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whenever you have 30 seconds,
00:22:03.21\00:22:05.29
whenever you're
walking across campus,
00:22:05.30\00:22:07.56
you're standing in line for
your meals in the cafeteria,
00:22:07.57\00:22:11.74
you're sitting,
eating by yourself
00:22:11.75\00:22:13.55
and you know whatever.
00:22:13.56\00:22:16.59
And then the 9th principle
ties directly into this
00:22:16.60\00:22:21.48
and that is learn to multi-task,
00:22:21.49\00:22:23.71
learn to do two
things at once now,
00:22:23.72\00:22:25.31
from what I understand
this is particularly hard
00:22:25.32\00:22:27.10
for guys to do.
Why? Why do you say that?
00:22:27.11\00:22:30.18
Well, girls tend
to do two or three,
00:22:30.19\00:22:33.32
or four things at
once easier than guys.
00:22:33.33\00:22:35.34
Buy guys gonna have to
start teach you in the kitchen
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to do this and that
and this at the same time?
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That was a long time ago, mom.
00:22:41.13\00:22:42.70
Did you learn? I think so.
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You're beginning to
learn. Beginning, wait a second.
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I think. In college, in college.
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I think that
this is something that
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I have now tied to
my life. Okay. Okay.
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More than just
beginning, but you're right.
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I remember when
you're trying to teach me
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that and that's
probably what gave me
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the principle for
this, for my own self.
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But even though, you know guys,
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the Psychologists say,
the guys are more focused
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and they can do only
one thing at one time,
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don't let yourself
to be limited by that.
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If you can learn to do
it, if you can make yourself
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break out of your
comfort zone as you always
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used to tell me
when I was younger.
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I think that was your
daddy that started that with us.
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Expand your comfort zone,
learn to do something new,
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learn to challenge
yourself, set your goals high
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and you know, you
can use your work time
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if you have a desk job,
I work in a printing press,
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when I'm running a press I
can be checking proof sheets,
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I can setup a card
with Greek vocabulary on it,
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right there on
the light table beside
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where I would be putting,
checking my printing sheets.
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And I can, I can memorize a word
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or memorize a Bible verse.
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And something else that's
very effective with this is,
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is Bible memorization.
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Actually quick is
Bible memorization.
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I think of David Livingstone
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who did that on
his line of work.
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Can you tell us about that?
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That's what gave me the idea.
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I remember reading
when I was a little kid,
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the biography of
David Livingstone
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and how when he was
8, 9 or 10 years old.
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He worked in I think
in a weaving factory.
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And he had to tie the broken
threads together in the looms.
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This is in
England? Yes, no, Scotland.
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Oh, I was thinking
of England. i'm Sorry.
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And he brought a
book, a Latin book
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at under 10 years of age.
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A Latin book that
at end of his route
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and he would catch a word or two
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or just a phrase at
every time he came back
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and forth to the
end of the machines
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the roll machines he had.
So little steps at a time?
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And he learned
languages that way,
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and this is a child
under 10 years of age.
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Now if they can do it in,
college surely we can do it.
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Well, we don't have much time.
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So let's go ahead and
finish the last one. Okay.
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Something that I
found was important
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is to skip supper, now I
know not everyone can do this,
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nor everyone has the metabolism
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that can handle doing this. Yes.
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But something that I found,
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is something that has helped me,
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not only do I sleep better,
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I wake up hungry
for breakfast. Right.
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And a lot of times if there is,
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especially if your
college has a set supper time,
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you can use that time.
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Because everybody
else most likely would be
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at the cafeteria eating supper.
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And this is half and
hour, forty five minutes
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of
uninterrupted dorm quiet time.
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And that is almost
non existent. Right.
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Any college
student will agree with me
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that a dorm is a loud,
noisy, obnoxious place to live,
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a lot of the time, not
always but a lot of a time
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and I know my dorm is great,
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the girls in my dorm
are wonderful. Right.
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But there is still noise when
ever you get a bunch of girls
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together, or a bunch of
guys and this is some time
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that you can take
for personal time,
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or extra study time.
Right, you've to move on.
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Yes. Keep a very carefully,
tightly balanced social life.
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And I've heard people
say, social life is important,
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don't let your education
get in the way of your learning,
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make sure you
have fun at college.
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But, you know, I
want to balance that out
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with the fact that, yes,
social life is important.
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But college is
not entertainment.
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You're paying
thousands of dollars a year,
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or your parents are not paying
thousands of dollars a year
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for you to have fun,
for you to entertained.
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This is where you're
here to get an education.
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Right. You need mere fun only.
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Right, but you can
be entertained anywhere,
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you can have fun anywhere,
you can be social anywhere.
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At college, you're
paying to learn. Right.
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And while you make
friends, you have fun,
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you have a social life
that is not the priority.
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So keep it balanced.
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Priority is a balanced
learning environment. Right.
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And if you have to cut
back on your social life,
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in order to be able to
create good study skills
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or develop good
study habits then do that,
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and you may back off
drastically and then work
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your social life
back in after you have
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these other
principles established.
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Okay. We've got no
time. Just a little bit left.
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Two more principles,
one, never use free time
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before it's really yours. Yes.
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And this is more commonly said,
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don't procrastinate. Right.
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Don't wait till the
end to get something done.
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Don't take your
free time to go to town
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and go and have fun when you
need to have a paper written.
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Write the paper,
and if you have time
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after the paper's
written, then go to town.
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Okay. Now next.
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And the last one is, pray
about cutting back your load.
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Pray, ask God if
there is something
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you need to read out,
some extra curricular activity
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that's just taking up that
time that you need to apply
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to something more important,
that's gonna make a difference
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later on and you
have to count your GPA
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or you have to
get a job or whatever.
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Okay. And you wanted
to read a scripture then.
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Yes. I wanted to
read Second Timothy 2:15.
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I think this sums
it up great, it says
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"Study to show
thyself approved unto God,
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a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed,
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rightly dividing
the word of truth."
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Study to show thyself approved.
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That's great, Sarah.
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And I appreciate you
being on the program with us.
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Thank you, mom. It's
been a pleasure for me.
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And I thank you for being
on the program with us too.
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I pray that you can use
these principles in your home
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and I want you to join us
again on Thinking About Home.
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