What do a professional boxer, a sailor and a poet have to tell us about learning? What are good rules for asking questions? Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? The book contains sections on resilience, responsibility, resourcefulness, reasoning and reflection. With posters which: encourage creativity, develop positive self-belief, provide rules for collaborative learning, test thinking and describe what successful individuals say about learning. The posters have been written or chosen by Alistair Smith and are used on his training programmes on accelerated learning. The posters have been trialled successfully in many schools.