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Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond, 12th Edition
ISBN10: 1266602550 | ISBN13: 9781266602559
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The 12th edition of Peak Performance continues to provide students with common-sense strategies for excelling in school, career, and life. Peak Performance delivers the essential tools for managing time and resources by showing students how to • Empower themselves to feel that they belong in college through the power of grit, perseverance, and resiliency. • Learn to acknowledge, name, and manage emotions in a positive way. • Practice a positive, open mindset that focuses on growth, learning, and effort. • Learn how habits work and how to replace counter-productive habits with positive habits that will help them in college and beyond. • Learn to integrate all learning styles and critical and creativity for maximum success. • Learn how to seek out mutual support and resources on campus for challenges new students face and remain persistent in pursuit of their goals. • Focus sustained effort to cultivate essential qualities for school, job, and life success.
PART ONE: Building Foundation Skills
Chapter 1: Be a Lifelong Learner
Chapter 2: Build Peak Habits
Chapter 3: Expand Your Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 4: Manage Your Time
Chapter 5: Maximize Your Resources
PART TWO: Basic Skills and Strategies
Chapter 6: Listen and Take Effective Notes
Chapter 7: Actively Read
Chapter 8: Improve Your Memory Skills
Chapter 9: Excel at Taking Tests
Chapter 10: Express Yourself in Writing and Speech
PART THREE: Application
Chapter 11: Become a Critical Thinker and Creative Problem Solver
Chapter 12: Create a Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit
Chapter 13: Build Supportive and Diverse Relationships
Chapter 14: Explore Majors and Careers
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