We get to witness our students transition from children to young adults. Along the way, they develop self-direction—the means and desire to shape their own learning. We talk about what students need in order to successfully attain this critical quality.
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00:10 ​ Warming up and topic introduction: Self-direction
03:26 ​ Different priorities: what matters to us
05:12 ​ Everything that we do is a reflection of our personhood
08:24 ​ Process your inputs
11:08 ​ Be authentic
12:00 ​ Learning as an obligation vs. a chance at self-discovery
15:25 ​ Control moves from parents to kids
18:44 ​ Within self-direction, there's a huge spectrum
19:17 ​ The degree to which you can manage your own locus of control is a function of which culture and society you're embedded in
24:44 ​ Whatever goal you think you have may be difficult in the time scale you're used to be thinking of
29:25 ​ What's the goal and what are you trying to do
34:31 ​ Motivation and direction
47:34 ​ Focus on winning
48:57 ​ What motivates anyone to win
50:14 ​ Looking out for the best, and using information from other people in order to get there
54:10 ​ There's a certain joy in setting a goal for yourself and then achieving it
55:16 ​ Self-awareness is a vital part
58:54 ​ As professionals, we have to gauge the goals of the students and parents
1:02:42 ​ Inevitably, every person is going to be an outlier in some ways. It's helpful to meet someone and help.
1:03:30 ​ Be aware of your own goals, then be aware of your own abilities
1:07:56 ​ Just asking yourself: where you are headed?
1:10:34 ​ What's a small thing that I can do now?