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...willingness to work flat-out is a trait found almost universally in the best students, says Karen Arnold, a Boston College associate professor of higher education. Arnold has spent 17 years following the lives of 81 Illinois students who graduated at the top of their class. These valedictorians, she found, relied less on native intelligence than on effort. "They were hardworking. They were persistent. School was at the center of their lives...
Most outstanding students have an outstanding teacher lurking somewhere in their past, a teacher who somehow connected with them. Karen Arnold found this was true of the valedictorians she studied. Principals and parents confirm it. "If you talk with kids, they will tell you about someone who has captured their imagination--gotten hold of them emotionally and intellectually," says Fred Ginocchio, principal of Madison Middle School in Appleton, Wis. He remembers his own third-grade teacher making this kind of breakthrough for him, by reading the autobiography of Black Hawk to the class. "I can picture her still," he recalls...
...parents who despair of ever seeing an honor-roll mention, there is this bit of consolation from Arnold's valedictorian study. Conventionally good students tend to wind up as conventional successes. "I hate to use the word conformists," says Arnold of her high achievers, "but they were aware of and willing to deal with the rules of the system." Bill Gates was not a conventionally good student. Neither was Thomas Edison nor Ernest Hemingway nor most of the world's truly creative brains. But don't kid yourself either. It just isn't true that Einstein flunked out of math...
...down. But I've discovered I can't eat as much as I used to without gaining a few pounds, and I have to run farther just to maintain my weight. So when a friend suggested pumping iron as a way to boost my burn rate, I was skeptical (Arnold Schwarzenegger leaped to mind) but curious. After all, the number of women using free weights has doubled, from 7.4 million in 1987 to 16.8 million in 1997. Surely they're not all training for the Ms. Olympia contest...
...those fancy machines at the gym? The jury's still out on which is better for strength training--free weights or machines. The point is to start building those muscles. Muscles use more calories than fat does, and although I guarantee you won't end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger (women don't produce enough testosterone to really bulk up), you just might drop a dress size...