During this final meeting of the reading group we wrapped up our discussion of the book. We focused again on chapter 4 and chapter 5.  Chapter 5 discusses the role of will power and self control in success. According to the book ” Willpower is the most important keystone habit for individual success. In the last chapter you learned that keystone habits have the power to change other habits. The best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. The opening story talks about how Starbucks helped employees develop self control habits so that good decisions become automatic.  When employees are faced with difficult customers or problems at work they resort to their routines. We talked about the famous“marshmallow study” conducted in the 1960s that measured children’s self control as preschoolers.

During the group we discussed the socratic method and expectations of students being prepared for class.  We discussed the need to provide students with clear expectations of what grade they can earn in the class  We talked again about how helping students develop good study habits is the key to academic success. We discussed how important good self control is to managing a student’s academic career. Sadly many of us agree that our students do not come to KBCC with good self control habits, they are easily distracted and may start out strong but often they fall off course as the semester progresses. One of the topics discussed was helping students understand the purpose of attending college and getting students to interact and participate in the classroom so they can stay involved and engaged for the entire semester.

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