How to Navigate Life, Belle Liang, PhD
How to Navigate Life, Belle Liang, PhD
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How to Navigate Life
The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond

Author: Belle Liang, PhD, Timothy Klein, LCSW

Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/02/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose.

Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re “supposed” to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion carries over right into first jobs. What have traditionally been considered the best years of life have become the beaten-down years of life.

Belle Liang and Timothy Klein devote their careers both to counseling individual students and to cutting through the daily pressures to show a better way, a framework, and set of questions to find kids’ “true north”: what really turns them on in life, and how to harness the core qualities that reveals, allowing them to choose a course of study, a college, and a career.

Even the gentlest parents and teachers tend to play into pervasive societal pressure for students to PERFORM. And when we take the foot off the gas, we beg the kids to just figure out what their PASSION is. Neither is a recipe for mental or physical health, or, ironically, for performance or passion. How to Navigate Life shows that successful human beings instead tap into their PURPOSE—the why behind the what and how. Best of all, purpose is a completely translatable quality to every aspect of life, from first jobs to last jobs and everything in between.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About Belle Liang, PhD

Belle Liang is a professor of Counseling Psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She is Principal Investigator in the Purpose Lab; her research focuses on positive youth development, including mentoring and relational health in adolescence and young adulthood. She lives in Lexington, MA.

About Timothy Klein, LCSW

Timothy Klein is an award-winning urban educator, clinical therapist and school counselor. He has served as the director of strategic partnerships for Project Wayfinder, an organization that designs purpose education for secondary schools, was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, and Director of School and Community Engagement at Medford High School, where he implemented strategies that increased college matriculation by 30%. He lives in Jamaica Plain, MA.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Izzy

Honestly, I’m not the fastest reader nor do I consider myself a good reader but I was obsessed with this book. This book gave great insight on how to live a purposeful life, something that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently as I navigate my 20s. I enjoyed the theories about the “games” in life......more

How to Navigate Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond By Belle Liang and Timothy Klein How to Navigate Life by Belle liang and Timothy Klein is a well written and a great read - awesome resource for students, educators and families on how to navigate the complexities......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

Probably a 3.5 stars. It contains lots of good advice and ways to think about navigating life. High school and college students and there parents would benefit from reading it and working through the thought processes outlined in the book. The main weakness is it sits awkwardly between a book for st......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Eminently readable, well-researched, and very topical, How to Navigate Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond is an inspiring book for all ages. I started the book, reading as an educator and thinking about how to apply the ideas in my classroom. As a high school Engl......more

Goodreads review by James

I didn’t like this book, per se, however the content has tremendous value, especially for parents of growing children or even for anyone transitioning from school, military, or career. The book starts from a premise of beginning with a specific goal and begins breaking it down and evaluating differe......more