Kim Possible
Kimness - The Tool Kit
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Ideas and Activities to Strengthen and Hone Kimness
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academics The pursuit of higher learning to educate one's Self to become a more informed individual. The development and assimilation of intellectual tools which can be used to provide greater perspective(s) on world events and personal life situations. The incorporation of these tools into behavioral patterns in order to provide options in dealing with life circumstances.balance In juxtaposition to the amount that a course of study is specialized, a balanced education offers the advantages of being able to triangulate perspective on a greater number of events and topics. Balance should also be considered in regards to education verses other aspects of life. This provides the opportunity to apply what has been gleaned within the academic realm and to test theory against practical application.commitment The degree to which you decide that knowledge will contribute to your life and your life's goals and dreams, is the degree to which you will make a commitment to academics. Once you decide that an education will have value in your life and that it will provide benefit to you, the commitment to higher and life long continuing education will be there.diligence Diligence in the pursuit of academics is the testament to your belief that higher education will provide benefit in your life. Your diligence in pursuing a steady pace of academic growth will provide the rewards that you have committed to for your Self.effort In order to reap the rewards of the benefits you have decided academic study will provide; Effort is the practical component of the equation. Effort is manifest in the time and work that is expended. The amount of effort you put towards academics will determine the degree to which your academic pursuits contribute towards your goals.foundation The broader and more appreciable the foundation, the more stable the overlaying structure. Academic pursuit does not have to be what you are or what you are about, it can be incorporated as part of foundation that you stand on to reach your chosen goals.graduated Step by step, gradient by gradient gaining an academic foundation is like a building of bricks. One brick is not more important than the others. Each brick, a part of the greater whole, is equally important to the structure. Each brick, though similar in function as related to the whole of the structure, is unique. Each brick should be as strong as the others. And each brick should be complete and whole. Academics, like the building, is constructed in a graduated manner. Brick by brick.here The pursuit of an academic foundation is not off in some far distant future. It is here and now. Academic pursuit incorporated as a matter of course. It is more effort to not learn from life experience than it is to learn. In your Here is where academic pursuit exists.incorporate What is learned should not be kept in a crucible. What is learned incorporate into your life, the whole of your being. The tools developed from academic pursuit should be honed, polished and used often. Used often so they become an extension of you. Like you use your arm and hand to reach out, what you learn should be used to reach towards greater expectations and fulfillment of your goals.judicious A specific academic pursuit can be followed ad infinitum. If that is the goal then well and good. If academic pursuit is to develop tools to reach your goals, then, be judicious with the amount of time you chose to expend on a specific subject or topic. Time is a part of your tool kit. Use your time wisely. Be judicious in the amount of time you expend on each brick. If a brick is ill-formed, spend more time on it. But be judicious, as there are other bricks you need to complete your construct.kinship Seek out and associate with those activities and those people who share a kinship with your academic pursuits. Doing so will strengthen the fidelity between you and your academic pursuits.learning Learning is first; The acquisition of facts. These facts can include the time inwhich an event occurred, the relevant actors which participated in the event, and the processes, that lead up to and occurred during the event, and finally the effect of the event on other events. This basic structure can be applied to history, literature, chemistry, mathematics, language, in fact all areas of studies. Learning is secondly; The taking of all facts, acquired in the first step, and then building relationships between these, seemingly disparate, events and viewing each event from the perspective of each other event. Learning is thirdly; Taking the relationships gleaned in the second step, based on the facts acquired in the first step, and building models of "similar modalities". It is from these "similar modalities" that the phrase, "history always repeats itself" comes from. These models provide the means to create conclusions on other events without the event actually having been observed. (Analysis and Synthisis) Learning is fourthly; The application of the models, developed in the previous step, to your understanding of the underlying currents and occurrences of worldly events at the macro and micro level. It is this final step that determines, in a large degree, how successful you will be in the material world. That is: The application of aquired Knowledge towards the reaching of Your goals.** meaning Attach meaning to what you are learning in your academic pursuits. When it is kept in mind that what you are learning will contribute to the effort of reaching your goals, each thing you learn will inherently have meaning attached. If you encounter something that has no meaning, set it aside as it may have future use. Don't be afraid to set aside those things that have no meaning for you. Decide Judiciously.nocuous Repel and reject those ativities and events that are nocuous towards the furtherment of your academic pursuits. Avoid outside forces that would make your efforts noisome.omnipresent Consider your classroom to be omnipresent. The facts learned from a book or in the class, should be tested outside, in the real world. The connection to what you learned "in the box" should be taken out of the box and used in your everyday adventures.perennial Academic pursuit should be perennial. Once started, the quest for knowledge should be without end, and a lifetime endevour. While academics are only a tool to be mastered and to be used to reach one's goals; Amaster understands that the quest is eternal.question Question everything and everyone. Do not let anything or anyone define your foundation. Trust facts presented by those who are trustworthy, but verify. Consider anyone or anything that is offended by questioning is questionable.reason The relationship between learning and reason are recursive. The more you learn, the greater your potential for reasoning, the greater your ability to reason, the more fruitful your academic pursuits will be. Always remember; The fulfillment of your goals and dreams are the reason for your academic pursuits.serendipity discovery, finding, finding out, determining, detection, spotting, catching, recognition, determination, distinguishment, locating, disclosure, exposure, revelation, uncovering, exhumation, excavation, bringing to light, find, strike, lucky strike, accidental-chance discovery, casual discovery, serendipity, rediscovery, invention.(1) Serendipity is realization that seemingly isolated events have an underlying connection. Seemingly irrelevant facts that you learn along your academic quest will reveal their connection to the greater whole of your experience.tenacious Be tenacious in your quest for higher education. Discard those events that would derail you from your quest. Be aggressive in your studies and the verification of those things that you been learned. Put up your collar to the wind and keep moving forward. Your goals are waiting.unbounded Have unbounded enthusiasm for your quest of academic excellence. The jewels to be found along the way are their own reward. And your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow of education will be sitting on top of the achievement of your goals.vestige As you grow in your education there are facts that will no longer be relevant or proved false. Discard these vestiges without fan fair. Continually moving forward on the quest.wonderment The most pervasive expression of the universe is wonderment and is the key to exploration and discovery. Echo the universe and allow the common thread of your quest to be wonderment.yearning Let the natural human yearning to know more and exploration be your motivation for learning. Let your guide be the yearning for truth. Let truth be the guide on your quest.zeolous Be zealous in your efforts to further your academic studies. The more you contribute the greater your rewards.
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**Note: The above description of Learning was laid out in a linear fashion. However, the four steps, and the processes within those steps do not necessarily have to, although they often do, take place in a linear fashion.
The process of Learning can, and often is, a nonlinear process. This nonlinear aspect of Learning creates the connectedness between apparently desperate events. And leads to a greater intellectual understanding of the world, the events that occur in the world, and the interconnectedness between those events. This interconnectedness is physically manifest in the neural connections that are made in the brain during the process of Learning. It is as if, the brain is attempting to make a model of the world, within it's own physical hemisphere(s). Providing the user, You, with an ever largening library of models and tools and options with which to provide solutions during Your life. The more information You provide for your brain the fuller and richer your model will be.
resources/references
The Random House College Dictionary Rev. Ed. ©1979
Random House Inc.
Roget's International Thesuarus 4th ed ©1977 Harper & Roe Pub., Inc.(1)
"Ten Tips You Need to Survive College", Dr. Carolyn Hopper
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