Name: 10 Books EVERY Student Should Read - 2017 Book Recommendations
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So, I have got some book
recommendations for you today

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and I am doing these in
the middle of the summer

so for those of you who want to get ahead

10 books that I think
every student should read,

starting with my favorite
book from last year

because it tackles the number one problem

that I get emails, tweets
and comments about.

and I think this book really
helped to point out the fact

that when we get these
cravings for novelty,

cravings to check our
Snapchat or our Instagram,

or just distract ourselves from
our work and we act on them.

We're actually ingraining
a habit and we're weakening

And by contrast, by
avoiding those distractions

And when that was explicitly stated to me,

and I found it really,
really helpful in my work.

Now this is the learning
how to learn book.

In fact, there's a course
over on Coursera.org

that you can take for free
called Learning How to Learn

and this book is basically
the companion to it.

How to Excel at Math and
Science this really is a book

so I can't really summarize
the whole thing here

but a couple of the key lessons
I took away from the book.

Were number one, the
process of memory formation

Which, are essentially
loosely grouped bundles

of information that are
connected through meaning.

And it talks about how to
efficiently form those chunks.

And it also talks about the
focused mode of thinking

Now, these are two
complimentary forms of thinking.

Focused mode is what
happens when you sit down

and you focus on a problem with intensity

and you're mainly using
your prefrontal cortex

But the diffused mode of
thinking is just as important

and it's kind of what happens
when you background process

a problem by taking a
break or sleeping on it.

And a good example is, if you
ever try to think of a word

but you just can't get it
and then you take a break,

or you wake up from a nap
later and it comes to you.

So, these two modes of thinking
help you to solve problems

in a complimentary way
and this books highlights

the importance of taking
breaks so you can use

that diffused mode just as
much as the focused mode.

Third book on my list is
Getting from College to Career

by Lindsey Pollak and I think
this is a great introduction

to a lot of the career
skills that you're gonna need

to be able to get a job
or the job that you want

Now, I was gonna put So
Good They Can't Ignore You

but I've already talked
about that book in the past.

that big overarching
passion, hypothesis question.

and into the trenches of how to get a job

and how to stand out
amongst the competition.

Talks about interviewing,
how to build a resume,

to be able to get that job that you want.

Some of you definitely
guessed it would be on here.

but I really think you
should give it a read

And the reason for that
is that habits form

and when you know how to
intelligently build strong ones

and break the ones that
you don't wanna have,

that are hurting you then
you're gonna be so much more

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