Digital Resource Library
Texts
The following texts are meant to provide students with resources on managing student life, including finding motivation, adjusting habits, and developing the "why" that will help sustain your success during the difficult times of your academic career. These resources are intended for any and all students at all stages of their academic career.
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional
By: Rainesford Stauffer
Published: 2021
ISBN: 9780062998989
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“An Ordinary Age puts young adults at the center as Rainesford Stauffer examines our obsessive need to live and post our #bestlife, and the culture that has defined that life on narrow, and often unattainable, terms.” — Barnes & Noble
Designing Your Life
By: Charles Duhigg
Published: 2012
ISBN: 9781101875322
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.” — Barnes & Noble
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
By: Charles Duhigg
Published: 2016
ISBN: 9781620905494
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.” — Barnes & Noble
Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently
By: Caroline L. Arnold
Published: 2014
ISBN: 978014312616
“To change ourselves permanently, we need to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them. Small Move, Big Change is Arnold’s guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement.” — Barnes & Noble
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
By: John C. Maxwell
Published: 2000
ISBN: 9780785288572
“Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Bestselling author John C. Maxwell says that if you are like him, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. However, he has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same. Maxwell takes a closer look at failure and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone.” — Barnes & Noble
The Last Lecture
By: Randy Pausch
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9781401323257
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a [last] lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—”Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”—wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment … It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.” — Barnes & Noble
50 Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me About College: Straight Talk for First Generation College Students FROM First Generation College Graduates
By: Angel D. Flores
Published: 2014
ISBN: 9781499660999
“Real-world advice for first-generation college students FROM first-generation college graduates. Each author understands the challenges of being the first person in your entire family to attend college. This book is full of practical, common sense advice that will save you both time and money because it was gained through the struggles and challenges overcome by first-generation students.” — Barnes & Noble
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
By: David Allen
Published: 2015
ISBN: 9780143573197
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.” — Barnes & Noble
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
Published: 2014
ISBN: 9780674729018
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.” — Barnes & Noble
Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation
By: Gabriele Oettingen
Published: 2015
ISBN: 9781617230233
“In Rethinking Positive Thinking, Oettingen applies mental contrasting to three key areas of personal change— becoming healthier, nurturing personal and professional relationships, and performing better at work. She introduces readers to the key phases of mental contrasting using a proven four-step process called WOOP—Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan—and offers advice and exercises on how to best apply this method to daily life.” — Barnes & Noble
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
By: Gretchen Rubin
Published: 2017
ISBN: 9781524760915
Available at Pickler Memorial Library
“During her multibook investigation into understanding human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question “How do I respond to expectations?” we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively.” — Barnes & Noble