Summary of Research for Students & Faculty
Contents of this section are compiled by Kaveh Farrokh (Ph.D.), Counsellor & Learning Specialist at Langara College Counselling Department.
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- Focus on Your Learning Process rather than Your “Ability” to be Successful
- A Key Study Examining the Mind-Set of Success
Motivation and Resilience
- Why Are Today’s College Students So Emotionally Fragile? Vital insights from Neuroscience
- Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges
- An Epidemic of Anguish: Overwhelmed by demand for mental-health care, colleges face conflicts in choosing how to respond
- Treat Failure like a Scientist
- Overachievers at Higher Risk for Suicide
Amplifying Motivation for Success
- How to Motivate Yourself to do Things You don’t Want to Do
- The Two Mental Shifts Highly Successful People Make
- 50 Ways to Live Life on Your Own Terms
- What old story about yourself are you still believing? Here’s how to find it and change it
- Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mind-Sets that Shape Our Lives
- How to Enjoy Studying
Motivation, Concentration & Focus
- How to Stop Your Mind from Wandering
- This is How You Increase Your Attention Span: 5 Secrets from Neuroscience
- Attention Management
- Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
- The Six-Step Process to Train Your Brain to Focus
- Pay Attention: Practice Can Make Your Brain Better at Focusing
- Four-Step Method to Disarm Internal Triggers of Distractions
- How to Remove Two Things that Get in the Way of Our Concentration