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17 Habits of Mind

1. Be Persistent

2. Manage your impulses, think before acting, remain calm, thoughtful and deliberate (Emotional Maturity)

3. Listen with understanding and empathy

4. Be mentally flexible

5. Think about your thoughts. Be aware of your own thoughts.

6. Strive for accuracy and precision

7. Have a questioning attitude. Know what data you are looking for, develop questioning strategies. Always ask: How do you know?

8. Apply past knowledge to new situations

9. Think and communicate with clarity and precision

10. Gather data through all your senses

11. Imagine and innovate, think in a different way, generate new and novel ideas.

12. Respond to the world with wonderment. Have fun figuring it out.

13. Take responsible risks. Live on the edge of your competence

14. Laugh! Find the humor in life

15. Work together, we are not isolated creatures; use your peers to help you solve problems. Think interdependently

16. Be open to continuous learning. Know what you know, and know what you don’t know.

17. Remember that 99% of the world is grey. There usually isn’t just one answer, and there is more than one side to every story.

Smile, today could be your last...