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The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college—and every other educational enterprise, too.

The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book—college graduates who went on to change the world we live in—aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives.

Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers. These individuals started out with the belief that intelligence and ability are expandable, not fixed. This led them to make connections across disciplines, to develop a “meta-cognitive” understanding of their own ways of thinking, and to find ways to negotiate ill-structured problems rather than simply looking for right answers. Intrinsically motivated by their own sense of purpose, they were not demoralized by failure nor overly impressed with conventional notions of success. These movers and shakers didn’t achieve success by making success their goal. For them, it was a byproduct of following their intellectual curiosity, solving useful problems, and taking risks in order to learn and grow.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008L42UJ6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Belknap Press; 1st edition (August 27, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 803 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
Reviewer: C. Groves
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 5 stars for its life changing effect
Review: I picked up this book in pursuit of straight A's. What I got instead was a chance to completely change the way I view education and learning. The goal of this book is not to teach you how to make the grade (although there is advice for doing that at the end of the book) but to show you a process and viewpoint of education that leads to growth and success in life after school. Although the book is not perfect it did change my life, and perhaps save a doomed to fail college career. Here are some of the main things I liked and disliked about the book.Liked: (note the length of discussion of each of these topics varies)-How it encourages learning, growth, self discovery and curiosity over success and jumping through hoops (grades)-Encourages one to take control of your own education.-discussion of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation-focusing on good questions over correct answers-explanation and discussion of strategic and surface learners vs deep learning-the benefits of taking responsibility for outcomes and focusing on the ability to change the future-why self compassion is more important than self esteem-discusses attitudes towards failure and why certain ones are better-how embracing the unknown and changing your language can make you solve problems better-the mindful process of deep learning-effects of prejudice on learning and how to overcome it-how living in a different culture effects learning-the effect of competition and comparative thinking on learning-how viewing the world as flexible can enhance learning and growth-7 levels of thinking, from basic to most advanced-effective ways to learn (can be used to make good grades)Disliked:(Mostly personal preference)-that there were many long winded stories. While at some times I found them inspiring and useful, others times I got nothing out of them, probably just my mood at the time though.-that there was no clear outline of the principles in the book and how to apply them, of course if one pays attention they can make their ownI gave this book a 5 out 5 stars because I feel it changed my life for the better, especially in regards to college. I believe that if you apply the principles in this book, it will help you get more out of college, and life.God Bless!Cody

Reviewer: kden
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Insightful, inspiring and pleasurable to read
Review: I'm a sophomore student of Computer Science. I'm glad and feeling lucky for discovering this recently published book. This book takes an unconventional approach in helping college students like me to success in both learning and grades. Instead of merely providing specific guidance and methods for optimal studying and taking tests, it includes numerous interesting examples about people who've succeeded both in academic terms and life afterwards. It reveals the patterns of how successful individuals developed an unique, insightful, creative and critical mindset, which helped them to achieve their ultimate successes not only in school but in life. This book emphasizes the importance to become a deep learner, someone who learns with motives far beyond the grades. It also emphasizes the importance of general education, as it broadens perspectives of thinking and that it happened in most successful individuals author has investigated. Nevertheless, the two are just examples of the many more valuable emphases in the book. In addition, the last chapter of this book provides useful and specific advice on getting good grades and achieving deep learning simultaneously.This book is written in a style that provides valuable and often interesting life stories of many people, while weaving with author's rigorous insights and also solid research findings. It's a definitely worthwhile read not just for students who wants good grades and become successful later on in life, but also for anyone who wants to become a creative and critical thinker with deep learning capacities that maximizes chances for success in any area. It's also a worthwhile read for all professions associated with education, as it once again reveals some of the major shortcomings of today's education system. It may empower educators with the knowledge on how to develop the important qualities and traits author endorsed that'll benefit students greatly. One place for improvement for this book would be organization of contents, as it's sometimes easy to get lost in the sea of stories, losing track of the main points author is trying to convey. But overall, it deserve five stars.

Reviewer: Antic
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good resource for researchers in education.

Reviewer: Brad Jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Quality of the book is excellent. Thank you.

Reviewer: Kris
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I thought some of the reviews on here were rating this book too highly hence my curiosity made me order this. I've read a lot of 'self help' books and others which claim they will improve an aspect of your personal or professional life, but I strongly believe this book could be one of the rare ones which do actually help. Well worth reading.

Reviewer: debbie8355
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I guess this comes under the genre of self help books but this is a worthwhile read for anyone heading off to university to give them some ideas about how to get the best out out of the experience. Good motivational stuff.

Reviewer: DON PAN!K
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It surprises me sometimes what motivates people to get a university education. Gone are the days when it was a passport to a secure job for life - it all has to be about the learning, and ideally learning that will continue long after you have graduated. So this book is useful in showing how to make the most of the opportunity. It is far from being a how to be excellent manual - how could it be? But as a thought provoking book that will trigger some self-reflection, it works