Preparing for Success at University: Knowledge and Creativity

This document discusses the importance of personal development as a learner in university and how to develop knowledge and creativity. It includes a reflective essay on the author's journey as a learner and strategies for approaching future challenges and expectations of a university course.

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Success at University:
Knowledge and Creativity

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................3
Reflective Essay.............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is very necessary as a learner in the university for gaining
better outcomes. In this dynamic and modern world, there is huge competition in each
place or sector, and that’s why this is very mandatory to develop own knowledge and
creativity for gaining effective competitive advantage. A reflective essay has been
included below in order to show how I have developed as a learner during academic
session. How I will approach the future expectations and challenges of a university
course also has been added in this reflective essay.
MAIN BODY
Reflective Essay
How I developed as a learner
According to my experience, developed as a learner is not a small task to a
person, because when we try to develop own self as a learner, then we have required to
put our huge efforts. Currently I have great knowledge and skill of creativity which
enables me for gaining excellent outcomes in the academic sessions. However, I have
conducted many productive activities and operations in order to increase levels of own
academic knowledge and creativity (Rose, J., Jiang and Mangematin, 2017). For
example; recently I have created an effective action plan that has helped in for
developing own different skills and areas of knowledge. I have attended different
training and development sessions as well where trainers and coaches has taught me
about how to develop own capabilities as a leaner. I have learnt that continuous
development is also very necessary to get developed as a learner. In the stage of
learning in academic sessions, we should have different skills, abilities, competences
and areas of knowledge, because these all enables us for gaining appropriate results.
As a learner, time management, decision-making, creativity, problem solving and
communication and interpersonal skills or abilities are too important to me, because
these skills help un in boosting our performance in academic sessions. On the other

side, technological knowledge is very mandatory to a person in this modern world for
becoming a very effective leaner.
Currently there are lots of innovative and productive ways simply available in
market place which helps us for developing our skills and areas of knowledge as a
leaner. I have different techniques and ways to be developed in academic session. For
example; currently there are lots of informative videos and blogs simply available on the
internet, so I have watched those all videos and read those all blogs where different
experts share their views and opinions on how to become a very effective learner. I
have participated in a coaching centre as well, where existing coach was helped me in
order to develop own various skills and abilities (Kim-Soon and et.al., 2017). According
to different experts, we should have different well-developed skills for becoming a very
effective learner in academic session. I have purchased different books and journals
which has based on “how to be developed as a learner”, and read these all books and
journals. I have experienced that; books and journals are the best resources to a person
learning about how to develop its various capabilities. Currently there are thousands of
books and journals easily present in different book stores or shops which are completely
based ‘developed as a learner’.
There are some other techniques also has highly contributed in my personal life
in order to be developed learner. For example; keep yourself fully prepared, be
organised, use proper communication, maintain privacy, help others, ask questions, be
motivated to give any presentation, don’t compare yourself with anyone, keep learning
etc. these all techniques was played an excellent role to me for becoming an effective
learner in academic sessions (Zhang, Sun and Lyu, 2018). I am still using these all
techniques, because I don’t want to stop for day to day developing own skills and
abilities as a learner.
How I will approach the future challenges and expectations of a university course
As an effective learner, currently I have lots of well-developed skills and abilities
which are helping me to systematically deal with different aspects in daily life. Currently
I have lots of expectations from the future, like; I expect that I will gain excellent marks

in university course, I expect that I will be gained the highest marks in my standards in
academic session. These are some major expectations, and I am preparing to put own
huge efforts for fulfilling these all expectations on time in near future. However, I can
face different challenges also in the future while studying university course (Sergeeva
and Trifilova, 2018). In this situation, I have to prepare for properly dealing these all
challenges and difficulties of university course. According to my knowledge, time
exceed, dealing with change, immediate learning trends, unmotivated behaviour,
adaptability struggle etc. are major challenges to a learner, in which I have to make a
very productive plan in order to deal with these challenges appropriately.
Basically, I have to include those all ways in this plan which I will be used in in for
dealing these all challenges. For example; time exceed is one of major challenge to me
as a learner when I will give any presentation and exam in academic session, in which I
have to develop own time management skill to properly deal with the challenge of time
exceed in the future. On the other side, I have to use self-management technique to be
highly motivated, so that when I become fully motivated, then I will never face
unmotivated behaviour in the future (Barham and et.al., 2020). Development of
problem-solving abilities is also a necessary task to me for properly dealing with
different challenges and fulfilling all expectation of university course in the future.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above findings, it can be concluded that currently there are
various innovative ways and methods easily available to a person which can support in
becoming a very effective learner in academic session. There are skill development and
gaining knowledge from different resources are two major activities for a person to be
developed as a learner. On the other side, having appropriate skills is the best way to
anyone for dealing with different future challenges, because skills enable to a learner for
resolving various challenges of university course.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
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Kim-Soon, N., and et.al., 2017. SMES are embracing innovation for business
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Rose, J., Jiang, Y. and Mangematin, V., 2017. Technological innovation mediated by
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Journal of Technology Management. 75(1-4). pp.6-27.
Sergeeva, N. and Trifilova, A., 2018. The role of storytelling in the innovation
process. Creativity and Innovation Management. 27(4). pp.489-498.
Zhang, H., Sun, X. and Lyu, C., 2018. Exploratory orientation, business model
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