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POWERFUL SEVEN
POWERFUL 7 (Is a link to me from heaven.)
Seven must have skill sets that each learner should possess.
(Powerful tools to immediately help you start releasing your power.)
1. Behavior
Discipline
Concentrate, Speed, Precision and Accurate Recall. (SPAR).
Link, associate and connect information with other relevant information.
Focus
Mental toughness
Self-control
Be strong, courageous, confident and competent.
2. Listen (p.15) “Be quick to listen, slow to speak…” James 1:19a (NLT)
Develop the desire to listen
You show the speaker that you care when you listen
Use all your physical tools to show that you are a good listener, (i.e. head, eyes, body language, etc.)
Use all of your senses to help ensure your understanding of what you think the speaker means. Ask the speaker for clarity or further explanation if you do not understand the speaker.
Strive for accuracy
Do not become judge and jury, allows the speaker to finish her or his thoughts before responding.
Exercise self-control and refuse to interrupt the speaker.
Good observation assists with more accurate recall.
Practice good listening skills and teach good listening skills.
Listen intently, intuitively, instinctively with intelligence, wisdom and discernment to gain insight.
3. Link
Make using comprehension aided linking a natural part of note taking, add color to bring your CA links to life.
4. Visualize
A picture is worth a thousand words, visualizing also helps with developing a stronger ability to recall information.
5. UseAcronyms and acrostics as much as possible.
The mind works more efficiently with clusters of information when many facts need to be recalled.
6. RICCI (Recall, incubate, connect, create and innovate.)
The super-conscious is always available to incubate; ready to be put to work.
7. Make PIE.
Turn the information into productive information and successfully employ it.
See a man skilled in his labor he will perform before kings and not before ordinary men. Proverbs 22:29