Becoming a Hero in School: Overcoming the Fear of Learning

What’s Your First Job?

What’s Your First Job?Monday to Friday


8-10 Hours a Day


8-10 Hours a Day

Daily Tasks


8-10 Hours a Day

Daily Tasks

Promotions


8-10 Hours a Day

Daily Tasks

Promotions

Increasing Work and Responsibilities


8-10 Hours a Day

Daily Tasks

Promotions

Increasing Work and Responsibilities

People Care if You Show Up or Not

Your Job:Go to School

andStudy!

AVID is the only class you’ll ever get

On How to Do Your Job

What is the Purpose of Your Job?

ToGain

Knowledge

“All men, by nature, desire to know.”

Aristotle

Ignoranceis bliss.

Knowledge Ignorance

Who’s Right?

“We seek knowledge to reduce anxiety

and

we also avoid knowing to reduce anxiety.”

Abraham Maslow

NotKnowing Knowing

It’s scary to take this step

NotKnowing Knowing

It’s scary to take this step

…and it’s scary to take this step

NotKnowing

Knowing

The Bad News:You will go through this cycle over and over

for as long as you live.

Go On toMore Knowledge

“Can’t I Just Stay Here?”

Life

Knowledge&

FEAR

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge,

and frequently the result as well.

Edith Hamilton

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge,

and frequently the result as well.

Edith Hamilton

Q: What is your biggest obstacleto learning anything?

Teachers?Parents?

Language?

Equipment?

Facilities?

School Administrators?

Homework?

Other Students?Text

books?

A: You Are.

Dead Skin Cells

Skin and Bone

Dead Skin Cells

Skin and Bone

Dead Skin Cells

Brain

Your Brain

Automatic Functions

Automatic Functions

Unconscious Mind

Conscious Mind

Automatic Functions

Unconscious Mind

ConsciousMind

Unconscious Mind

ConsciousMind

Automatic Functions

Unconscious Mind

ConsciousMind

Do homework.Play Xbox.

The Conscious Mind

Unconscious Mind

ConsciousMindD


Fight! Get Meat!

The Unconscious Mind

Automatic Functions

Unconscious Mind


Fight! Get Meat!

ConsciousMindD

Run!

Food, Water, Shelter

Security and Safety

Belonging and Love

Esteem

Self-Actualization


Security and Safety

Belonging and Love

Esteem

Self-Actualization



Security and Safety

Belonging and Love

Esteem

Self-Actualization


Run!


Security and Safety

Belonging and Love

Esteem

Self-Actualization


Run!Fear

I need to ask a question.

I need to ask a question.But I’m going to look dumb!

I need to ask a question.I’m going to look dumb!My friends will

make fun of me.


make fun of me.Then I won’t have any friends.


make fun of me.Then I won’t have any friends.Then my family won’t want me.


make fun of me.Then I won’t have any friends.Then my family won’t want me.Then they’ll kick me out of the house.


make fun of me.Then I won’t have any friends.Then my family won’t want me.Then they’ll kick me out of the house.Then I’ll be a bum

on the street.



on the street.Then I’ll get cold, dirty, and hungry.



on the street.Then I’ll get cold, dirty, and hungry.Then I’ll get sick

and weak.




and weak.Then I’ll collapse in some dark alley.




and weak.Then I’ll collapse in some dark alley.Then I’ll die a

horrible, lonely death.




and weak.Then I’ll collapse in some dark alley.Then I’ll die a

horrible, lonely death.And Then …?

I need to ask a question.I’m going to

DIE!

What I KnowWhat I Know

What I Don’t Know

What I Don’t Know

“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts

the human animal like nothing else: it is a

mainspring of human activity….”

What Does This Have to Do with Going to School and Studying?

Any time you are feeling

You are experiencing some form of the fear of death.

AnxiousUncertainF e a r f u l

ScaredIntimidated

1

I need to ask a question.I’m going to

DIE!

2When you recognize that whatever is making you …

… probably won’t kill you,you begin to take control.

AnxiousUncertainF e a r f u l

ScaredIntimidated

“Heroism is the first and foremost reflex

of the terror of death …”


Security and Safety

Belonging and Love

Esteem

Self-Actualization

FearD

enia

l of D

eath

I need to ask a question…

I need to ask a question…and it’s not going to kill

me!

The first step to knowledge is the confession of ignorance.

Gerald Weinberg

Dumb questionsare some of your best tools!

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

Alfred North Whitehead

FastLe arne r

The willingness to make a fool of oneself is almost a prerequisite to rapid learning.

Kenneth Boulding

I keep six honest serving men

(They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

There will never come a day when you know everything you will ever need to know.

NotKnowing

Knowing

The Bad News:You will go through this cycle over and over

for as long as you live.

Knowing

NotKnowing

Knowing

NotKnowing

Knowing

The Good News:It’s a journey, not a closed loop.

NotKnowing

NotKnowing

Knowing

Look out the window.

The complexity of the universe is beyond expression in any possible

notation.

Michael Frayn

The complexity of the universe is beyond expression in any possible

notation.

Not even what you see before you can ever be fully expressed.

Michael Frayn

Now close your eyes.

Now close your eyes.Not even what you see now.

Michael Frayn

Knowing

NotKnowing

Knowing

NotKnowing

Knowing

NotKnowing

NotKnowing

Knowing

The Good News:You can start that journeyanywhere and at any time.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

“Our central calling, our main task on

this planet, is the heroic.”

So How Do YouGain Knowledge?

Answer:

Be a Super Hero.

Ask Dumb Questions!

NowJump!

Career

Becoming a Hero in School: Overcoming the Fear of Learning