Personal Highlights of Chapter 1

• Success is staying on course to your desired outcomes and experiences, creating wisdom, happiness, and unconditional self-worth along the way
• All of our experiences can contribute to the creation of our best selves
• Once you choose a positive belief or an effective behavior, you usually find yourself in a cycle of success. Positive beliefs lead to effective behaviors. Effective behaviors lead to success. And success reinforces the positive beliefs
• Potential learning experience occurs when neurons send out spikes of electrical activity which causes nearby neurons to do the same. When a group of neurons fire together, they form a "neural network" which is when the neurons join hands, jump up and down, and have a learning party. When the same collection of neurons fire repeatedly, the result is long term memory.
• To excel as a learner, you need to create as many neural connections in your brain as possible
• How to create many strong neural connections in your brain? Become an active learner
• The 3 principles of deep and lasting learning:
• Prior learning
• Quality of Processing
• Quantity of Process
• The CORE learning system:
• Collect
• Organize
• Rehearse 
• Evaluate
• High self esteem is the fuel that can propel us into the cycle of success
• Good news is that self esteem is learned
• People with high self esteem know that no one is perfect, and they accept themselves with both their strengths and weaknesses
• Successful people accept the things they cannot change, have the courage to change the things they can change, and possess the wisdom to know the difference - Reinhold Niebuhr
• Successful people acknowledge the weakness, accept it without self-judgement, and, when possible, take action to create positive changes
• Developing self-acceptance helps us to make choices wisely