Top 10 Book Recommendations for College Students

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Book Recommendations

for college students

by Janet Maltbie

Welcome

College Students

Check out these books from your public library!

Contents

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How to Win Friend and Influence People

What Color is Your Parachute

The War of Art

Atomic Habits

The Compound Effect

The Pomodoro Technique

Building a Second Brain

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

How to Find Your Mission in Life

The Holy Bible

About the Author

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#10

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

Problem:

Relationships issues involve some of the most perplexing problems you will ever face. Master key principles and you will excel in your career and find joy in life.

Solution:

This book offers simple, effective ways of making and keeping friends. It is the mother of all self help books. Read it every year.

Quote:

"Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours."

-Dale Carnegie

What Color is Your Parachute

by Richard Nelson Bolles

Problem:

Career Planning and especially looking for a job is frustrating and complicated. Bolles takes a step by step approach that has endured for decades and is timeless.

Solution:

The most effective way to look for work is -and always will be- networking. The informational interview process explained in this book is worth the cost of the book. Check it out in the library for free, if you can. It is frequently stolen.

Quote:

“The best and most up-to-date information is not to be found in print or digital; it is to be found in face-to-face conversation with people.”

-Richard Nelson Bolles

Marsden Hartley’s ‘E’ (1915)

The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

Problem:

Having difficulty getting out of bed in the morning? Wonder if you will ever amount to anything? This book isn't just for creative people. Its for anyone who struggles with getting things done.

Solution:

Understand the author's description of resistance. You will feel you are not alone. Recognize that when you are pursuing things of value you will encounter resistance. (See next page for details.)

(See next page for details.)

Quote:

“What is Resistance? It’s the internal force that keeps you from showing us your best self; from doing your best work; from taking risks and making mistakes and failing gloriously in pursuit of something greater.”

-Brian Miller

Activities That Elicit Resistance

1. "The pursuit of any calling and writing, painting, music, film, dance or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.
2.    The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise.
3.    Any diet or health regimen.
4.    Any program of spiritual advancement.
5.    Any activity whose aim is tighter abdominals.
6.    Any course or program designed to overcome an unwholesome habit or addiction.

7.    Education of every kind.

8.    Any act of political, moral or ethical courage, including the decision to change for the better, some unworthy pattern of thought or conduct in ourselves.
9.    The undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others
10.  Any act that entails commitment of the heart, the decision to get married, to have a child, to weather a rocky patch in a relationship.
11. The taking of any principled stand in the face of adversity. In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long term growth, health or integrity.”

- Steven Pressfield