Core Life Skills
Find Your Fuel
This lesson helps students identify what gives them energy and what drains it. They create a Fuel Map to make study, work, and personal goals easier to plan.
What you will learn
- Identify what energises you, and learn to tell real fuel apart from approval, habit, and pressure.
- Tell the difference between what you value and what you are doing to be liked or rewarded.
- Identify which of your values survives when a trade off forces you to protect one thing over another.
- Assemble a short, specific, revisable Fuel Map that names what energises you, what drains you, and the conditions you do your best work in.
What happens in this lesson
Chapter 1: What Pulls You Forward
Identify what energises you, and learn to tell real fuel apart from approval, habit, and pressure.
What you make: A ranked energy clue with a top and bottom move, showing what currently energises the learner and what drains them.
Chapter 2: Values Vs Rewards
Tell the difference between what you value and what you are doing to be liked or rewarded.
What you make: A values ladder listing the learner's top three drivers, ranked with a reason for each.
Chapter 3: Values Get Real Under Pressure
Identify which of your values survives when a trade off forces you to protect one thing over another.
What you make: A short 'under pressure' note naming what the learner protected first across two scenarios and what that reveals.
Chapter 4: Fuel Map
Assemble a short, specific, revisable Fuel Map that names what energises you, what drains you, and the conditions you do your best work in.
What you make: A completed Fuel Map with five short fields grounded in the learner's own evidence from the earlier chapters.
Chapter 5: Use Your Fuel On Purpose
Apply your Fuel Map to make better choices under real constraints, and test whether a decision protects or wastes your energy.
What you make: A decision filter with three yes/no checks and one real choice made from a realistic scenario.
Chapter 6: Spot The Pattern In Your Energy
Analyse repeated energy patterns over time and judge which ones are sustainable, misleading, or situational.
What you make: A pattern note that identifies one sustainable fuel, one false signal, and one condition that changes the result.
Key terms in this lesson
Flow
The feeling of being so absorbed in something that you forget what time it is.
Fuel Map
A short card naming what gives you energy, what drains you, and the conditions where you do your best work.
Fuel vs Reward
The energy you get from doing the thing itself is different from the energy you get from people clapping for it.
Fuel, Approval, Habit, Pressure
Four kinds of energy that feel similar from the inside but behave very differently when nobody is watching.
Pressure test
Check whether something you say you value still holds when no one is watching and there is no immediate reward.
Values vs Rewards
A value keeps pulling you when the room goes quiet. A reward is the good feeling you get while the room is loud.
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