The second meeting of the Power of Habit reading group was held on 4/17/19 from 11:30-12:30 p.m

During this session we mostly focused on Chapter 4 Keystone Habits, or the Ballad of Paul O’Neill.  This chapter discusses the idea that keystone habits are habits are more powerful than others. These are known as keystone habits and they have the power to change how other habits work. Making a change in a keystone habit (“going for a run before work”) can start a chain reaction that over time transforms other patterns. Chapter 4 begins with a discussion of Paul O’Neill the CEO of Alcola Corporation.  When he was first appointed CEO he was able to improve productivity by focusing on the keystone habit of safety in the workplace. Keystone habits are important for our students.  If we can get our students to change keystone habits, how they prepare for class, then they may be able to transform their patterns of learning in all their classes. Most of us agree that our students are not prepared for class and for learning. They have not developed good keystone learning habits in high school and therefore they continue in the same failing patterns in college.

We also discussed how challenging it can be to get new programs started at KBCC. The difficulty of changing routines seems to be a challenge not only for students in the classroom but for Instructors working at the College.

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