4. Consequences: Wrong approach to Learning
• Friction -> prevents enjoyment -> pain
instead of pleasure...slack
• Learning becomes barrier instead of
stepping stone to success
• Your goal is to be EDUCATED and not
become a BLACK BOX
5. Who is Your greatest enemy
when it comes to learning well?
• Beware of no one more than of
yourself; we carry our worst enemies
within us. ~ Charles Spurgeon
13. How to study smart?
PRINCIPLE OF SOWING AND
REAPING
14. Teachback
• Teach peers what you learnt
• You learn better as you are forced to
use your own words to teach
• Take turns to teach your study group
members
• Will it work?
17. Read...Write...Speak...Think
• READ
• Read SCMP aloud daily for 15 mins
• Guaranteed to transform your understanding
of written text & speaking skills
• How to Read a Book: Mortimer J Adler
• Story of Namashivayam
21. Avoid Bad Presentations
TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF
• What are you saying to the audience?
• I worked hard on my slides...
• I am comfortable as the audience is
looking at the slides, not me
• Slides are important, I'm not...
22. Avoid Bad Presentations
RELYING ON ONE LEG OF THE STOOL
• 1. Content
• 2. Delivery
• 3. Visual Presentation
• Too much reliance on any one leg will
make you fall
• Balanced approach = common sense
23. Is there POWER
behind your
PowerPoint?
PowerPoint Karaoke
Too much content on a slide +
Too many slides =
PowerlessPoint
24. Avoid Bad Presentations
DON'T BREAK COMMANDMENT # 1
• Thou shall not READ the slides
• Smiling is welcome, laughing is not
cool, it simply tells you are nervous
• Content unexplained adds '0' value to
your presentation
29. Will you act right now?
It is always easy to act
tomorrow...
...tomorrow will never
come if you don't act
right now!
"A year from now you will wish you
had started today"