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LEARNING TO LEARN: BECOMING A SELF -GROWER 1
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an
unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright
REFLECTION
In this experience you will use the Performance Analysis and Assessment worksheet as a tool to help
you begin reflecting on who you are now, who you would like to be in the future, and how to begin to
achieve the goals that will get you there.
P URPOSE
In this course we want you to be able to visualize what you want to be, analyze what it takes to perform
like a star, believe in your potential, and develop the tools, practices and mindset to become what you want
to become. The first step is, of course, seeing that goal or target. After all, the better you can see a target,
the greater your chances of hitting it.
Self-efficacy, the strength of belief in one’s self, is a very significant factor is determining short- and
especially long-term success. While most people believe that there is a limit to how well any of us can
perform—“Know your limitations” is an oft-heard piece of advice—this self-limitation becomes probably
the greatest barrier to becoming a star performer. This course will offer you tools, techniques, practices,
and a mindset that will help you unlock your unlimited potential.
As you begin to do that unlocking, you will learn and explore many things about yourself. This
foundational and first experience will focus on five critical components: 1) the Theory of Performance
and the Classification of Learning Skills, 2) how to analyze a performance area, 3) analyzing your past
performance as a learner, 4) seeing quality learning as a performance, and 5) challenging yourself to
believe in your unlimited potential as a learner.
The Theory of Performance is comprised of five different aspects that provide structure for this course.
The course will help you improve your performance as a learner and self-grower by strengthening your
1) identity, 2) learning skills, 3) level of knowledge about learning and self-growth, and 4) ability to
transfer your learning and self-growth performance to new situations. Finally, the fifth component—
personal factors—will be addressed by strengthening your resolve to maintain success even though life
may throw you a major curve. Later in the course you will explore how an individual’s personal factors,
if not controlled, can negatively impact performance.
O BJECTIVES
1. Learn that all people have unlimited potential in learning how to learn and improving themselves.
2. Develop strategies to improve performance in each aspect of the Theory of Performance.
3. Understand how the structure and tools of the course can help you learn to be a star performer.