Attention to Detail 7 of 10

Attention to Detail

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When you double-check your calculations for a math problem or cite sources carefully in a research paper, you’re paying close attention to detail. That skill comes in handy in any workplace, whether you maintain a database, keep a log of the hours you spend with clients or write e-mails.

John Wooden, UCLA’s former great basketball coach who lead his teams to ten consecutive national championships, was asked what he attributed his success to. Among a number of things, he mentioned that paying attention to details was one of the most important qualities for successful coaching and for high achievement in any worthwhile pursuit. He even paid attention to how his players would lace up and tie their shoe strings. If they didn’t tie them correctly, he would teach them how.

Details may be small things but from small things come great things; therefore, pay attention to details and you will experience substantial progress in your overall education attainment.

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"So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important." Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the “in-group,” we lose sight of things that are far more important.”

-Sean Covey

In life, there will always be a set of people who have their own groups, or cliques. Most have these groups in order to be identified and maybe even respected. Then we have another set of people who don’t have a group and don’t mind. But then there’s some that don’t have a group and want to be in one because they think that if they are, then they will be more popular. So in order for them to go in, they stop being who they truly are and become more like the people in the group. By doing so, they might get the attention from that group and ask them to be part of them. But the problem is that there are some people that might ask you to do the wrong choices in order to be part of their group. For example, those who want to be part of a gang, most likely they are asked to do something illegally like robbing, breaking in to a house, or maybe even killing. These “new comers” choose the wrong and will have to live with the negative consequences later on in life. They don’t know that they are losing the most important thing about them, which is their own uniqueness.