3 Books Every Student Should Read - College Info Geek

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hey guys so it finally happened I finally moved into a new house and don't let this backdrop deceive you my room actually looks like this right now uh things are definitely still in flux I'm not even near finished setting up this room so this week I wanted to bring you a quick video where I recommend three of the books that really helped me become a more effective student and I'm going to go ahead and say that each of these three books is something that you should read if you're a student so my first book recommendation is the Power of Habit by Charles doig and as I've said before and if you're on my mailing list you know that I think habits are one of the core things that form your ability to become a successful student your habits and the patterns that are ingrained up in your head are largely what Define what you do on a day-to-day basis and as time goes on the accumulations of those actions really define whether or not you achieve your goals the reason I love The Power of Habit is because it explains how habits are formed it goes over something called The Habit Loop and shows how routines are formed in your head they're triggered by certain things and they end up leading to certain rewards it also shows shows you how you can start changing your habits with the knowledge of this habit Loop how you can break bad habits or start building good habits that you don't have yet my second book recommendation is one I mentioned last week the personal MBA by Josh Kaufman now the personal MBA is the author's attempt at building a education in a book that can sort of replace actually going back to graduate school for an MBA and uh while he's not very serious about that claim he obviously isn't saying that two years of intense graduate level education is going to be replaced by this book what he wants you to uh realize is that there are certain foundational Concepts to each aspect of business accounting working with others sales marketing value creation and in my opinion all of these aspects of business are useful to know no matter what your major is and the reason for this is that you probably want a job after you graduate no matter what your major is you're looking to get hired by a company that has to conduct business so if you understand the fundamentals of business if you understand Val creation value delivery if you understand how marketing works if you understand how your brain works how to work with others and how to work with yourself all Concepts that are gone over in this book then you're going to be a better candidate it's going to complement the actual in-class information you get that's specific to your major and my final book recommendation is debt fore You by Zach biset now this book I think is the most essential book for anyone looking to go to college in the US I can't really say that it's essential for people in other countries because I know that the financial situation with education is different but for us students at least read this book it can save you thousands and thousands of dollars the book contains a wealth of information about student loans the cost of debt and how hard it might actually be to pay off and most importantly whether or not you actually need to take debt to get a good education he breaks down a lot of the flaws in the college rankings that drive a lot of students College decisions and shows how you can get a really good education at an in-state Public University or even a community college he also shows in actual detail how you can can afford that education without taking on debt now so far this channel has been mostly about studying and productivity but that's only one of the focuses I have with my website College infogeek I also want to teach students how to become better job candidates and how to become financially stable and the first step is helping them stay out of student debt or pay it off as quickly as possible that's why debt for you is probably my favorite student Focus book of all time and if you've ever seen my Essential reads for students list which you can read by clicking the card right now you'll see it right at the top above my own book so that's it for this video hope you find these books useful and you'll find other recommendations over on my Essential reads page you can also get my book 10 steps to earning awesome grades while studying less for free and while I'm not going to list my own book as essential for students I do think you'll find it useful so I'm going to get back to cleaning this house up and building a proper backdrop for next week's video so I will see you in that video and also if you're waiting on the 10,000 subscriber bonus video it is coming these past few weeks have been really hectic and I haven't had time to film it but I will be getting it out as soon as I can and I'll show you how I actually shoot these videos so look forward to that hey everybody thanks for watching this video on my book recommendations if you want to get new videos every single week on being a more effective student then you can click that big red subscribe button right there you want to get links to these books and also see the other books I recommend for students then go to the companion blog post for this video by clicking the orange logo right there if you also want a copy of my book on improving your grades just click the picture and I'll send you a copy you can also check out last week's video on building your ability to focus if you missed it and lastly if you got ideas for new videos or just want to connect I'm Tom Frankle on Twitter or or you can leave a comment thanks