June 12, 2009
So I just got a link to a great article which you can find here about how to achieve goals. In the VTA Method goals are the first step towards academic success. All the online tutors that work here also make goals a major component when they tutor college students.
Whether you’ve read the VTA Method or not, I’m going to give you one of the greatest secrets behind the VTA Method now confirmed by a New York University study.
Goals should be kept to yourself
Results from a new study from New York University suggest that whatever your goal, keeping it to yourself is a better idea than broadcasting it to the world. The article goes on to suggest that sharing our goals with others doesn’t necessarily motivate us to achieve. In actuality, by talking to others about our goals and plans we start to feel a premature sense of completeness about our goals.
The VTA Method on Goals
This directly relates to what I discuss in the VTA Method when talking to others about academic goals and who to talk to them with. I teach that when you begin to become a better student, it’s crucially important to NOT talk to others about it, especially those people who can’t hold you accountable for your goal. The reasons why you shouldn’t share your goals seem a little counter-intuitive, but let’s take an example.
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May 4, 2009
Hello and welcome to 30 minutes a day to a 4.0 GPA!
This is the first post of the virtual teaching assistant blog. I’ve put together a program (the VTA Method) which is going to help you get to a 4.0 GPA while only studying 30 minutes a day. This blog is going to serve as an update site for advanced study tips and methods for all, for free. I’ll usually be trying to post one new article a week. I won’t be posting daily as I’m interested in producing quality content and quality requires time.
I’m a recent graduate from McGill University where I was finishing grad school specializing in sociology, social media and migration. I always struggled with school and didn’t really figure out the keys to success till later in my undergraduate degree and in graduate school. I became a teaching assistant during my undergraduate degree and grad school and figured out all the secrets that professors and teaching assistants don’t tell their students. During the five years I worked as a TA, I helped thousands of students through classes. I developed my knowledge into a tutoring service where students were paying me more than 100 dollars an hour to tutor them.
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So in doing my monthly education readings as a tutor, I’ve recently had the pleasure of reading Dr John Ratey’ ‘Spark‘. I believe that every student and educator should read this book. Ratey lays out the connection between physical activity and mental acuity and gives educators and students action steps to take to become better students through physical activity.