{"id":4892,"date":"2015-06-30T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2015-06-27T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T14:11:25","slug":"a-really-great-list-30-things-to-tell-students-youll-never-see-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/30\/a-really-great-list-30-things-to-tell-students-youll-never-see-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A really Great list: 30 Things To Tell Students You&#8217;ll Never See Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4897 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2001-max-school-1_wm-159x300.jpg\" alt=\"2001-max-school-1_wm\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2001-max-school-1_wm-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2001-max-school-1_wm.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/teaching\/30-things-to-tell-students-youll-never-see-again\/\">This is a really great list: 30 Things To Tell Students You&#8217;ll Never See Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Print this out and put it up on a wall somewhere where you&#8217;ll see it often.<\/p>\n<p>Read it every day.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>30\u00a0Things To Tell Students You\u2019ll Never See Again\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>2. Perspective is everything.\u00a0Where your thoughts lead, your life will go.<\/p>\n<p>2. It\u2019s not about you. Nothing ever is.<\/p>\n<p>3. Establish your own measures of success. Do this early on, and never look back.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0Find courage in purpose and ideas, not some abstraction like \u201cinside yourself.\u201d <em>Purpose<\/em> can be courageous even when <em>you\u2019re<\/em> afraid.<\/p>\n<p>6. Use the wisdom around you. Learn to find wisdom everywhere. In nature, in music, in mistakes, in the quiet.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0Pick your battles.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0No one hates reading. You\u2019re probably just a very picky reader. Most people walk into a bookstore surrounded by thousands of books, and may be deeply interested in only a few dozen. That\u2019s normal. Find those few dozen.<\/p>\n<p>9. Learn to laugh at yourself.<\/p>\n<p>10. Surround yourself with inspiring people and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>11. If you don\u2019t like something about your life, change it. Nothing is worse than letting yourself down.<\/p>\n<p>12.\u00a0Leave things better than you found them.<\/p>\n<p>13. Be brutally honest with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>14.\u00a0Question everything.<\/p>\n<p>15. Having integrity means doing the right thing when no one is looking.<\/p>\n<p>16. Think globally, act locally.<\/p>\n<p>17. Digital citizenship is human citizenship. If we\u2019re going be super-philosophical about things, your life isn\u2019t yours, it\u2019s everyone\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>18. Trust yourself.<\/p>\n<p>19. Your work and your life don\u2019t have to be \u201cseparate.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Your \u201cwork\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a career, and definitely doesn\u2019t mean \u201cjob.\u201d Your work is your daily interaction with the world. Choose carefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>20. Know who in your life to go to for what.<\/p>\n<p>21.\u00a0Talk less, listen more.<\/p>\n<p>22. Happiness isn\u2019t what you think it is. You\u2019ve been taught by Hollywood and social convention that jobs, money, marriage, and always-on entertainment are the goals of life. But true happiness comes from, among other sources, a sense of alignment\u2013of volition and agency. Freedom.\u00a0Artistry. Craftsmanship. Connecting. Living out what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>It may work out differently for you\u2013and that\u2019s the point. It\u2019s different for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>23. Every now and then start your thinking over. Reset your perspective. You\u2019ll never really be able to do this, but try. All the crap you\u2019ve been internalizing for all of these years you\u2019ve done so without experience\u2014and you\u2019re likely to take those cognitive biases and emotional prejudices out with you into the early stages of your adult life.<\/p>\n<p>24. Don\u2019t do what your teachers and parents have told you to do. They love you, but they can\u2019t possibly understand the complexity of your life and hopes and thoughts and dreams and fears, and will try to anyway, unwittingly projecting their own insecurities and aspirations on you. And when you follow it, your life will be an underwhelming, room temperature, sticky wet noodle.\u00a0It\u2019s your life, and thus your work.<\/p>\n<p>25. Decide what is \u201cgood work\u201d for you, and resist the urge to socialize it to get everyone\u2019s approval.\u00a0While the product of your work may ultimately be public, your own moment-to-moment interaction with that work <i>is <\/i>life, and is fiercely private.\u00a0Every night when the lights go out and we\u2019re all ultimately alone, those well-intentioned people that love you are somewhere being forced to confront their own work, and their own insecurities, hopes, frustrations, and dreams. And you with yours.<\/p>\n<p>26. Prioritize endlessly. It\u2019s not always easy to see that X will cause Y. As things change, don\u2019t be afraid to let go of things that no longer fit.<\/p>\n<p>27. Admit when you\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>28.\u00a0I\u2019m your teacher for life. If you ever need me, find me.<\/p>\n<p>29. Don\u2019t oversimplify what\u2019s complex; don\u2019t over-think what\u2019s simple.<\/p>\n<p>30.\u00a0Try to\u00a0align your behavior with your belief system and not the other way around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4902 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1986-06-007-adam4_wm-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"1986-06-007-adam4_wm\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1986-06-007-adam4_wm-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1986-06-007-adam4_wm.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/author\/terryheick\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Terry Heick<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4892'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4892);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4892);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4892);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>This is a really great list: 30 Things To Tell Students You&#8217;ll Never See Again. Print this out and put it up on a wall somewhere where you&#8217;ll see it often. Read it every day. Seriously. 30\u00a0Things To Tell Students &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/30\/a-really-great-list-30-things-to-tell-students-youll-never-see-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14,351,24],"tags":[108,393],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","category-teaching-learning","tag-life-in-general","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1986-06-007-adam4_wm.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2286,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/15\/effective-teaching-should-create-students-who-think-like-scientists\/","url_meta":{"origin":4892,"position":0},"title":"Effective Teaching Should Create Students Who Think Like Scientists","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I was alerted to this article by Mark Guzdial's blog: Carl Wieman on Effective Teaching \u00ab Computing Education Blog. 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