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View an exam as a fun challenge, like participating in a contest.  Your performance in the race or game depends on your time spent preparing, how effectively you prepared, and how effectively you tried during the contest itself.   

View an exam as a fun challenge, like participating in a contest.  Your performance in the race or game depends on your time spent preparing, how effectively you prepared, and how effectively you tried during the contest itself.   

If this were a sporting event, then everyone would recognize and honor the winners, just as we do in the Olympics, the World Series, and the Super Bowl.  We will also honor the winners (top scorers) with awards.  At the end of the class we will also give awards to the most improved students.  This friendly competition is intended to bring out the best in everyone, and motivate them to do better than they might otherwise.  If you think it is impossible to know every event in the list at the end of this lecture, you will see from the top scorers that it is possible after all.  Know that beforehand: while you're wasting time watching television or driving in the car with nothing to do, a more motivated student will be using that time better by memorizing or testing himself on key events from the list below.

If this were a sporting event, then everyone would recognize and honor the winners, just as we do in the Olympics, the World Series, and the Super Bowl.  We will also honor the winners (top scorers) with awards.  At the end of the class we will also give awards to the most improved students.  This friendly competition is intended to bring out the best in everyone, and motivate them to do better than they might otherwise.   

 

If you think it is impossible to know every event in the list at the end of this lecture, you will see from the top scorers that it is possible and that some students did it.  Know that beforehand: while you're wasting time watching television or driving in the car with nothing to do, a more motivated student will be using that time better by memorizing or testing himself on key events from the list below.  As Thomas Edison said, "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," and we will give awards to our students who hustle.

Recall how the homeschoolers Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison approached the challenges in their life.  They saw challenge as opportunity, and gave it their best shot.  They knew that success in life is due almost entirely to "perspiration" (work) rather than inborn traits like IQ.

Recall how the homeschoolers Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison approached the challenges in their life.  They saw challenge as opportunity, and gave it their best shot.  They knew that success in life is due almost entirely to "perspiration" (work) rather than inborn traits like IQ.