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yourself with positive statements to use in the event of comments
from others.
For all of these examples, it may be helpful to remember that
you are learning all the time, you just may not be aware of it. You
learn about the way your boss likes to do things by watching. You
pick up ways of resolving a conflict by listening to a skilled friend,
for example.
Sometimes it is helpful to think back over the last week and
try to be more aware of the things that you have learned.

How many of these barriers do you recognize in your life? Think of occasions when you have
come up against a similar barrier and remember how you overcame it.

SWITCHING ON YOUR MIND—IN A NUTSHELL

KEY IDEAS
YOU HAVE LEARNED: Proper selfishness
Intrinsic and extrinsic
✔ how to understand more about what rewards
motivates you Intangible assets
✔ how to use rewards to help you learn Hygiene factors and
✔ how to find intrinsic motivation satisfiers
✔ how to work out your own likely motivation
for any learning
✔ why you need to get the big picture
✔ why you need to balance challenge and
threat KEY TECHNIQUES/
✔ how to boost your motivation APPROACHES
✔ the different places in which people prefer Getting the big picture
to learn Balancing challenge
✔ the importance of the social dimension to and threat
learning Using rewards
✔ how to get your own learning environment effectively
ready Using a range of
✔ how to overcome common barriers to equipment to support
learning your learning