1. Breaking belief barriers

For thousands of years, humans have believed that it is impossible to run a mile in four minutes. However, in 1954 , Roger Bannister broke this belief barrier.

His ability to create this great achievement is firstly due to hard physical training, and secondly, his mental breakthrough.

Before this, he had simulated running a mile in four minutes in his mind many times. Over time, he formed an extremely strong belief, and thus gave the following absolute command to his nervous system, which must be completed with all his strength. In this mission, he did what everyone thought was impossible.

No one expected that Bannister’s record-breaking would have an incomparable impact on other athletes. Before that, no one had broken the record of running a mile in four minutes, but the next day Thirty-seven people entered the list that year, and in the following year there were as many as 300 people.

The reason for this phenomenon is that his achievements provide others with a new basis. What everyone thinks is "impossible" is actually possible.

People often have "self-limiting" beliefs about themselves or their abilities. The reason may be that they have failed in the past and therefore do not dare to hope for success in the future. On this day, it is also possible that you do not have a living concrete goal, and you have doubts about whether your wish can be realized. Over time, they begin to learn to be pragmatic and end up mediocre.

[Telling you gently]:

When students are working hard but unable to make significant progress, teachers can focus on helping one of the students make a breakthrough. One person's breakthrough often leads to a large number of people, and the power of role models is infinite.

In a class, teachers often fail to take into account the whole class. There are always a few outstanding students in the class, and there will also be some unmotivated students. Those who sink will sink themselves, those who float will float themselves, and even more The ones in the middle are a group of students who can sink or float. This group of students has the desire to make progress, but they are still far away from the top players in the class and cannot compete with them. On the contrary, if one of them succeeds, it will have a huge promotion effect on others, and everyone will definitely join forces to follow his example. In this way, the work of teachers can have the effect of affecting the whole body.

2. Be concise and concise

The famous Singaporean writer You Jin had this experience:

When I was a reporter, my pen was a portable tool that was indispensable every day.

Once, I asked a colleague to buy a ballpoint pen for me, and I told him over and over again: "No black. Remember, I don't like black. It's dark and solemn. Don't forget it." Yeah, 12 pens, not all black.”

The next day, my colleague handed me the dozen pens. Oh my God, I almost fainted: 12 pens, all black.

Blaming him, blaming him, he retorted plausibly: You repeatedly emphasized black, black. After a busy day, when he walked into the mall in a daze, there were only two words that impressed him the most: 12 The branch is black, so I only look for black ones to buy.

It makes sense, I am speechless.

At that time, if I had said concisely and concisely: "Please buy me 12 pens, please buy them in blue." I believe that my colleagues would not have made the wrong purchase.

From then on, whether You Jin spoke or wrote, he always went straight to the core and went straight to the point, without going around in unnecessary circles.

[Tell you gently]:

Some teachers always tell students that you are not allowed to do this or that. But he never tells the students what he should do.

If we change our thinking and change criticism into guidance and criticism into encouragement, our work will be much simpler and more efficient.

3. There is a skill in training dolphins

Dolphins can become excellent circus performers after being domesticated. Domesticated dolphins mainly rely on material stimulation to complete an action and reward a fish so that it can form a conditioned reflex. Training should be done step by step, from easy to difficult.

For example, in the program "Drilling into a Circle", the dolphins are first asked to learn to drill into a circle, then slowly change to a smoking circle, then to a slightly flaming circle, and finally to a burning circle. If you get into the ring of fire from the beginning, of course it won't dry out.

The same method is used to train dolphins to jump high. The trainer first pulls a string under the water's surface, and each time the dolphin passes over the string, it will be rewarded with a fish to form a conditioned reflex. The trainer kept raising the string, and the dolphins, having tasted the sweetness, tried to pass over the string every time. The thin rope was raised little by little and gradually placed above the water, and the dolphin gradually became a "high jumper".

Other traditional programs performed by dolphins include high jumping and touching the ball, heading into the basket, pulling a cart in the water, drilling through a fire ring, reading music and singing, dancing in disco, rescuing people in the water and many other programs. When we enjoy the wonderful circus performance of the dolphin, we should not forget to think about how it became an excellent "actor".

[Telling you gently]:

Every teacher should understand the principle of step-by-step, but when it comes to specific operations, they are often too hasty. Think of the amazing things that even lower-level creatures like dolphins can be trained to achieve, let alone our students.

It is important to set practical and feasible stage goals, and more importantly, let him experience the joy of progress after completing each small goal. No matter how this happiness arises, the purpose is to enable him to continue. As long as he can continue, over time, there will be qualitative changes.

4. Four yuan per barrel

In the American Standard Oil Company, there was a clerk named Archibald. When he stayed in a hotel on a long trip, he always wrote "Four dollars per barrel of standard oil" below his signature. This was no exception on letters and receipts. After signing, he would always write those words. Because of this, he was called "four yuan per barrel" by his colleagues, but no one called him by his real name. When the company's chairman, Rockefeller, learned about this, he was surprised and said: "There is an employee who works so hard to promote the company's reputation. I want to meet him." So he invited Archibald to dinner.

Later, Rockefeller resigned and Archibald became the second chairman.

This is really something that everyone can do, but in such a large company, Archibald is the only one who happily insists on doing it. Among those who laughed at him, there must have been many people who were more talented and capable than him, but in the end only he became the chairman.

Success is a habit. You don't have to do something earth-shattering to be successful. Start with small things, be determined and never tire of it, until doing small things becomes your good habit, and you will have the qualities of a winner.

[Tell you gently]:

Enabling students to develop good study habits is a course that every teacher must learn. "A road can tell a horse's power, but time can tell a person's heart." Over time, when students' academic performance diverges, we will see how big a role habits play in it.

It is recommended that teachers should make the development of good habits the focus of student work in the first semester when first-year students first enter school. The skill of sharpening a knife and chopping firewood is good. Sometimes, a small good habit can make a person successful, and the same small bad habit can make a person fall into the abyss.