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Number one study skills rule:

Keep Doors (to opportunity) Open!

Think of your student life -- especially your pre-high school and high school years -- as a time for keeping doors open. Each door represents an opportunity. If you bomb out in math, you just slammed shut one door (actually, a whole lot of doors. . . you'll be lucky to run the cash register at the local Bill's Burger Barn). If you blow off your English essay contest, slam! there goes another door. If you irritate Mrs. Hornblower, peeve Mr. Jenkins, frazzle Mrs. Frizzle, and perturb the principal, opportunity is WAY on the other side of a shut door.

So, your job is to keep doors open, as many as you can. Since some studies show you will change careers three or four times in your life time, and jobs several times in the coming years, it's likely your current career pick will change. What happens if you are devoted to art grades 7-12, but discover you love science the first semester of college? It's not too late . . . if you left the science door open by doing well in science related and math related courses through the years. Well, you get the picture.

I just read a wonderful quote in a book called "Ladies First" by actress and rapper Queen Latifah. She said her brother encouraged her to do lots of different things. Queen wrote, "He was adventurous and taught me that the more you try, the more surface area you create in which to succeed.."

Yeah. That's it. That's exactly what you are going to do; create more surface area in which to succeed.

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So, how do you do it? Follow Zeke (and his pals) to each link below for a mini-study skills lesson.