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Develop academic resourcefulness

Academic resourcefulness involves understanding how to use what you have around you. 

Consider how to get what you need in order to improve academically. 

Videos

Video

How failure cultivates resilience

Raphael Rose explains how failures and setbacks help you develop the emotional callouses needed to achieve great things in life.

Video

How to bounce back from failure

Failing sucks, but it's not the end of the world. This video walks you through a process for bouncing back, and offers some motivation to help you get started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3U1EuJeuc

Podcasts

Explore the topic: being free to fail
In this podcast, a student talks to Dr David Robertshaw about how failure helps us grow, and should just been seen as part of the journey in education.

Next steps

Now you have explored resources to help with developing a stronger sense of academic resourcefulness, the next step is to complete our activities to help you set some goals.

Activities to develop resourcefulness