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A rare successA person experiencing a rare success will not automatically take credit for it (especially if they have low self-esteem). Some people will minimise their own role in the success - readily explaining the outcome as being due to luck, other people or as an exception.When success does not breed success'Success breeds success' does not work so well when the individual minimises their own role in producing the success. They may be so used to 'failure', and believe in themselves so little, that when they have actually caused success, they don't believe it. If they think that success was due to other factors, then they cut themselves out of the positive cycle of 'success breeds success'.When positive feedback is not believedIn some cases the individual will not believe the positive feedback, and can even believe that they are being made fun of if too much fuss is made of their achievement. If they get embarrassed by being in the spotlight, they may not be too motivated to go through such embarrassment again, and may actually choose to avoid or hide their achievements. Peer group pressure may ridicule some kinds of achievement.Strategies for getting people to admit their success
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Successful task completion or successful learning?The successful completion of a task during a course is a means to an end - the end being the learning that is achieved as a result of taking part in these activities. Successful completion of activities may not result in much new learning - especially if facilitators are not well equipped for drawing out learning from success. If facilitators prefer to use reviewing for looking at issues and problems, then learners' interests could be best served by not experiencing too much success during a course! The alternative is to learn how to use success for learning - and try out a happier route to achieving objectives! |
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