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While reading a few articles on how to train our mind to stay focused and how to deal with challenging situations, I found a very interesting resource that could shed some light onto the subject. It is called ‘The Habits of Mind’.
The Habits of Mind nourishes students’ social-emotional learning and aims to improve the performance of students under challenging conditions. This is particularly useful when students feel overwhelmed by the exam session, because it instills discipline into their thinking.
Clicking on the link attached here https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1658111/Habits_of_Mind_Full_Chart.pdf you will learn how to identify each thinking pattern, when they are helpful, and most importantly, how to use them to your benefit!
We use the term “Habits of Mind” to mean having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems to which we do not immediately know the answers. When humans experience dichotomies, are confused by dilemmas, or come face to face with uncertainties, our most effective actions require drawing forth certain patterns of intellectual behaviour. When we draw upon these intellectual resources, the results that we produce are more powerful, of higher quality, and of greater significance than if we fail to employ those patterns of intellectual behaviours.
Employing Habits of Mind requires a composite of many skills, attitudes, cues, past experiences, and proclivities. It means that we value one pattern of thinking over another, and therefore it implies choice making about which pattern should be employed at which time. It includes sensitivity to the contextual cues in a situation signalling that it is an appropriate time and circumstance to employ this pattern. It requires a level of skilfulness to employ and carry through the behaviours effectively over time. Finally, it leads individuals to reflect on, evaluate, modify, and carry forth to future applications their learnings.
For a more detailed reading, you can access this link: https://thesystemsthinker.com/habits-of-mind-strategies-for-disciplined-choice-making/
