Challenging and questioning ideas presented to you can not only help you learn all sides of the story, but to create your own opinions based on questions and facts relevant to you, and it helps you learn to not take everything at face value.

Examining data from a unbiased viewpoint makes sure you are taking in the facts and only the facts. Altering data with personal opinions makes it lose lots of its credibility. Maintaining an unbiased stance gets you the most out of the data and information you have.

Academic and studying skills can be applied to more than just educational situations, and that's why they're important skills to have. Problem solving skills and learning strategies can be applied to work life and everyday life, as well as academic life.

I think this is important to keep in mind, that academia is supposed to challenge you, and just because it may not make sense now that it never will

Maintaining a positive mindset in the face of challenges helps you to see it a problem to solve, rather than a personal flaw or insufficiency

This is very important to the way I study. I have to make time schedules for my tasks to keep me on track and on time.

I often find that my gut intuition leads me the right way, so if i don't have a lot of confidence in my answer, I'll spend more time checking it.

This is my personal marker for full understanding. If I can simply and accurately explain an idea to someone else, I understand the topic