You Be An Optimalist Too is for the student with high standards who wants to keep them without being ruled by them: the learner who keeps polishing work long after it is good, finds it hard to hand it in, or moves past every good result to the next thing to improve. LearnSmart4Life lists it for the perfectionist student.
It offers a more sustainable alternative to perfectionism. The optimalist accepts reality, including failure, difficult feelings and even success, and then keeps pursuing growth. In your studies that means aiming high, learning from what goes wrong, celebrating what goes well and letting good work be finished.
Inside are two PDFs, both with your name on every page: a printable deck of A4 cards and a matching ebook. The cards follow four pillars: Accepting Failure, Accepting Emotions, Accepting Success and Growth Mindset. Among them are cards such as Overcome Failure, Content, Grateful, Achieve, Be Humble, Be Teachable, Improve and Learn. Each card has a theme, a short description and an image on the front, and on the back a set of quotes from many voices and wisdom traditions, with room for your own notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book, to read on a tablet or phone or to print and bind.
You can work through one pillar at a time, as the page suggests. I suggest you begin with Accepting Failure: print those cards, read the quotes slowly and write beside the one you choose what you would try if a mistake were simply part of learning.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life