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Whenever I find an interesting web site or blog entry related to good habits, I will post it here as a comment. If you find something, please add your comment too!
Good habits are not just for students. This New York Times article from 1996 describes research showing that people who enjoy healthy, happy retirement years do so not because of their genes, but because of the good habits they cultivated all their lives.
Stephanie Burns adds her take on Installing a new habit and breaking an old one
Teaching the Mind Good Habits is written by Sam Wineburg, a professor of education at Stanford University, and is addressed to university professors. He relates his discovery that history professors read differently from their students, and from literature professors. He argues that teaching students the good habits essential to each field of study could pay big dividends. “Professors may assume that their students are stupid or suffer from a learning disability”, he writes. “Often the truth is much simpler: No one has ever bothered to teach them some basic but powerful skills of interpretation.”
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