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TOPUCU Standard Workbook Lesson 1: Part 2

bad habit, the triggers, and the satisfaction University of Michigan’s School of Medicine. LESSON 1: QUIZ
associated with it. You must consider new He would later go on to become the very
routines that can take the place of old, first doctor to perform the groundbreaking
negative, routines. You need to write that surgery of separating twins who were
note to yourself as a reminder of what you conjoined at the head. And to think, it all
have set out to do. This is small stuff that can started with the simple act of substituting a
lead to huge changes in your life. Before our television with a book. 1. A habit is a repetitive behavior we perform 5. What does TOPUCU stand for?
lesson ends, you should hear the story about without conscious thought.
a man named Dr. Ben Carson. He wasn’t True transformation happens when you a. The one purple unicorn controls you
always Doctor Carson. decide to make changes. And that’s what True or False (circle one)
this program is all about TRANSFORMATION. b. Take over people you can’t understand
Ben Carson was raised in Detroit by an In the following lessons you will learn the c. The only person you cheat is you
uneducated single-mother who sometimes secrets and tools that finishers use to create 2. What component needs to change in order
worked as many as three jobs at a time good habits. But you have to get on board to improve or eliminate a bad habit? d. The one person you count on
so she could feed him and his brother. and make it happen.
With their mother away at work much of a. Routine
the time, the boys developed a habit of At the end of each of the seven lessons we NOTES:
watching television for hours and hours on are going to give you a visual tool that you b. Question
end. Despite her lack of education, Ben’s will need to memorize. This visual tool will be c. Prize
mother began to see that her boys would a constant reminder of that lesson. For this
be nothing in life without a drastic change lesson on habit change the visual tool is the d. Reward
in this routine behavior. So she began to word Routine. Yes, just one word. Memorize e. Trigger
limit the amount of TV they watched. She it and think about it every time you start
didn’t allow them to go out with their friends engaging in a bad ROUTINE. Look at your
until their homework and studies were wristband and remember that “The Only
done. She also picked up books from the Person U Cheat Is U.” TOPUCU. 3. What is the average number of days it
library and required the boys to read and takes to break or form a habit?
give her written reports on a weekly basis a. 12
despite her inability to read past a third-
grade level. Looking back, Doctor Carson b. 24
admits that these changes in routine were c. 40
extremely difficult to deal with and for a long
time he and his brother were ridiculed by d. 66
other kids in the neighborhood because of
their mother’s strict rules. But he would one
day realize these rules were more than just 4. What are some habits you would like
rules; they were building block habits. Ben to change?
found that reading and studying was a great
substitute routine that actually bridged the
gap between his trigger and his satisfaction.
He developed a love for reading and in turn
a love for education. So when he decided to
pursue a career as a surgeon he already had
the good habits he would need to make it
through the grueling programs at Yale and

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