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Thank you Lateif for sending me the 'Four Principles: Conduct in Battle' e-mail. It gave a positive change of mentality towards many situations.
For example I had a final exam today, and there was some moments where I didn't quite know what I was doing; but I was able to fight my way
through it.
"Theres always one more thing you can do to make the odds more in your
favor"- Principle #2. When I found I was completly ignorant of a question,
rather than not even try,I wrote the authors name. Then I recalled a little
bit of the argument; I wrote that down too. I was able to answer the question
little by little; thanks to Principle #2.
At times I began to panic and loss focus because I was on a time restraint,
and fighting for ideas. But I paused for a moment and thought about what
I was doing but shouldn't and about what I wasn't doing that I should. So I
found that I was not concentrating but should have, and I was writing more than
I was supposed to-poor time managemet-when I shouldn't.
The bottom line is that I would have been worse on my exam if not for the
Four Principles: Conduct in battle. The concepts works on more than one battle
field. They work in Iraq and in the class room.
Thanks Lateif.
Jeffrey
(Jeffrey is one of our Level II students and is in college.)
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