Brain Training: How Mindset Affects Our Studying (and What to Do About It)

By Yvonne Starkey

Tap into your full learning potential with Brain Training: How Mindset Affects Our Studying (and What to Do About It), an audio course from Scribd Coach and study coach Yvonne Starkey.

Brain Training was designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of the crucial link between mindset and effective learning. In the course, you’ll discover how a fixed mindset can hold you back and limit your progress, break free from these self-imposed barriers, and unleash your true potential for academic success. The course also revolutionizes the notion of confidence, shifting the focus from what you already know to your inherent ability to learn and grow and helping you build the unshakable confidence to acquire new skills and knowledge.

Bursting with engaging exercises and thought-provoking insights, Brain Training is your first stop on a journey of mindset self-discovery, written to help you develop the resilience and adaptability needed to conquer any academic challenge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Jul 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9781094435619

Yvonne Starkey

Yvonne Starkey CA is a qualified accountant and accounting coach and educator who has lectured students on accounting for over a decade. Today, Starkey focuses on Study Mindset, Study Strategy, and Study Habits for these students at all levels. To learn more about Starkey’s work or book a one-on-one study challenges session, visit her website, AccountingStudyAdvice.com.

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Brain Training

BRAIN TRAINING

How Mindset Affects Our Studying (and What to Do About It)

YVONNE STARKEY

SCRIBD COACH

Contents

About Scribd Coach

Introduction

How Mindset Affects Learning & Studying

How Fixed Mindset Keeps Us Stuck

Changing Our Minds

Rethinking Confidence

Conlusion

About the Author

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ISBN: 9781094435619

First e-book edition: July 2023

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Introduction

Hello‌ ‌everyone!‌ ‌I’m‌‌ ‌Yvonne Starkey,‌ ‌and‌ ‌this‌ ‌is‌ ‌Brain Training: How Mindset Affects Our Studying (and What to Do About It),‌ ‌a ‌course‌ ‌from‌ ‌Scribd‌. Thank‌ ‌you‌ ‌for‌ ‌joining‌ ‌me.‌ ‌

I. Feel. Stupid.

Does that sound familiar?

Maybe I should quit this. I’m just not smart enough.

Everyone else seems to have it all together. Maybe it’s just me.

How many times have thoughts like these run through your mind? If you’re here today, my guess is it that the answer is often enough.

For any number of reasons, most people don’t want to talk about it. We may become critical of ourselves and proclaim that this shouldn’t be the way we feel; we choose to just ignore it and hope it goes away. Or maybe we’re just holding out for some kind of proof that we’re not stupid. We think that, when we reach the next goal—whatever that is—we won’t feel like this anymore.

The biggest reason we don’t open up is because we think we are alone in these feelings. But you are not alone. This is actually very common—especially among students.

The reality is that this fear of feeling stupid—and the feeling itself—is something that we’re more likely to feel as we progress in our studies or our