The idea of a Personal Best or ‘PB’ encourages students to meet and exceed their own best performance and standards.
Athletes tend to judge their own performances by how close to their PB it is; it can be a huge source of disappointment to fall below this in a major championship.
In a recent article I noted the following regarding work/life balance:
‘Your PB can be used as a tool to navigate your own performances and expectations. A PB is an acknowledgment that an individual gave their best possible response based on the knowledge and capabilities they had in that moment. In our normal day-to-day life, some of the criteria we can use for assessing our own PB is to ask ourselves some of the following questions:
Am I thinking clearly here?
What can I learn from the feelings I have in this situation?
Are these feelings an accurate representation of reality?
How can I solve this problem in the short-term?
What steps can I take to ensure it doesn’t happen again?
Have I done my best?’
There’s a satisfaction and honour that comes with doing your PB in any given situation. I commend to our Junior Years students this notion. Commit to doing your PB this term.
Mr Tim Lambert
Head of Junior Years
