Dr. Karthik Deepa

3.  Self-awareness  capacity for introspection  the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.  Self Awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. 4.  Why Develop Self Awareness?  to make changes in the thoughts and interpretations you make in your mind.  Changing the interpretations in your mind allows you to change your emotions.  Self awareness is one of the attributes of Emotional Intelligence and an important factor in achieving success.  Self awareness is the first step in creating what you want and mastering your.  Where you focus your attention, your emotions, reactions, personality and behavior determine where you go in life.  Having self awareness allows you to see where your thoughts and emotions are taking you.  It also allows you to see the controls of your emotions, behavior, and personality so you can make chang

2.  Johari Window  The Johari window is a technique created in 1955 by two American psychologists, Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham (1914–1995),  used to help people better understand their relationship with self and others.  It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic exercise. 3.  Johari Adjectives  A Johari window consists of the following 57 adjectives used as possible descriptions of the participant.They are:  Able, ambivert, accepting, adaptable, bold, calm, caring, cheerful, clever, congenial, complex , confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extrovert, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, independent, ingenious, intelligent, introvert, kind, knowledgeable, logical, loving, mature, modest, nervous, observant, optimistic, organized, patient, powerful, proud, aggressive, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, smart, spontaneous, s

Study Skills/ Strategies Study skills/strategies are approaches applied to learning.  Respicius Rwehumbiza in his book "Understanding Examination Techniques and Effective study Strategies" in 2013 asserted that, most students fail in examinations simply because they lack study skills and/or examination taking techniques.  Study skills are an array of study skills, which may tackle  the process of organizing and taking in new information,  retaining information,  or dealing with assessments.  They include mnemonics,  which aid the retention of lists of information,  effective reading, and  concentration techniques  efficient note taking. 3.  Study skills : Nature  Any skill which boosts a person's ability to study and pass exams can be termed a study skill, and this could include time management and motivational techniques.  Study skills are discrete techniques that can be learned, usually in a short time, and applied to all or most fields of study.  They

1. Reading speed 2.  Reading speed The rate at which a person reads written text (printed or electronic) in a specific unit of time. Reading speed is generally calculated by the number of words read per minute. Reading speed is determined by a number of factors, including a reader's purpose and level of expertise as well as the relative difficulty of the text. 3.  Examples and Observations: “A rate close to . . . 250 words-per-minute [is the average] reading speed of most people, including junior high and high school students." (Stanley D. Frank, Remember Everything You Read. Random House, 1990) "Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.“ (Mark Van Doren, quoted by Bill Bradfield in Books and Reading. Dover, 2002) 4.  Four Basic Reading Speeds "Experienced readers pace themselves according to their purpose, taking advantage of four basic reading speeds.  Very fast  Fast  Slow to moderate  Very slo