Thinking about success

I think about the reason why so many scholars would spend so much effort building theoretical models of learning, figuring out pedagogical strategies, improving efficient learning methods and to help student succeed. However, what makes me puzzled is how we define success. More specifically, in schooling context, success could be broadly described as academic achievement, self-report mentally heathy and ability enhancement with in a certain period. It made me ponder about where does the progress come from. Success makes researchers so excited thus they are crazy finding the overarching principle behind it which could be suitable for every condition. But is success the prospect that individual could approach towards end in view set by himself/herself? There is no shortcut to achieve success but the accumulation of experience.

In one class of this week, we were asked to organize a model presenting the relationship or interplay between engagement (behavioral, emotional, cognitive, agentic), interest, achievement and self-regulated learning. We agreed most part of the connections between these notions, such as various engagement have interactions with each other and share mutual transformation, student's self-regulated learning could lead to success. However, when we were asked to put self-efficacy inside the present model, I hesitated because I could not see the inner logic between these models anymore. From personal perspective, they stands for different ideology but not a mode without any background.

Another thing is about the personal experience that I set in class last week, which was mainly about appearance of the unconscious "laying back" behavior and fear of speaking in public. No need to explain more about the journey of getting over it. But I think that being misunderstood is the foreordination of every expresser, since different individuals interprets the same language symbols so variously or even discrepantly. That's the reason why we need to continue communicating and listening (Trying to succeed in exchanging and fusing opinions, beliefs, thoughts could help us cherish self-efficacy). Even though in some cases, the beliefs or philosophy of mind essentially vary  from each other so distinctly. We still could communicate and exchange our thoughts.