When was the last time you paid yourself a genuine compliment? I mean, one that you really meant and believed about yourself. Self-affirmation "the process of identifying and focusing on one's most important values" is useful in countless daily scenarios: preparing for a presentation or board meeting, facing a fear of heights, meeting a new special someone on a blind date.
An emerging set of published studies suggest that a brief self-affirmation activity at the beginning of a school term can boost academic grade-point averages in underperforming kids at the end of the semester.
Imagine... if the mere act of identifying values most important to an individual can boost the academic performance of students, what else can it do? The possibilities are limitless.
Read more in Science Daily's article: Self-Affirmation Improves Problem-Solving Under Stress
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