- Select some act which you have recently begun to perform and watch it grow
more and more habitual. Notice carefully for a week and see whether you do not
discover some habits which you did not know you had. Make a catalog of your
bad habits; of the most important of your good ones. - Set out to form some new habits which you desire to possess; also to break
some undesirable habit, watching carefully what takes place in both cases, and
how long it requires. - Try the following experiment and relate the results to the matter of automatic
control brought about by habit: Draw a star on a sheet of cardboard. Place this on
a table before you, with a hand-mirror so arranged that you can see the star in the
mirror. Now trace the outline of the star with a pencil, looking steadily in the
mirror to guide your hand. Do not lift the pencil from the paper from the time
you start until you finish. Have others try this experiment. - Study some group of pupils for their habits (1) of attention, (2) of speech, (3)
of standing, sitting, and walking, (4) of study. Report on your observations and
suggest methods of curing bad habits observed. - Make a list of "mannerisms" you have observed, and suggest how they may be
cured. - Make a list of from ten to twenty habits which you think the school and its
work should especially cultivate. What ones of these are the schools you know
least successful in cultivating? Where does the trouble lie?
perpustakaan sri jauhari
(Perpustakaan Sri Jauhari)
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