The Overachievers Dilemma

Author : C. J. McClanahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998683300
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overachiever's Dilemma written by C. J. McClanahan and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as you can remember, you've worked hard to be the best. Now you're thriving in a busy career, running your own business or quickly climbing the corporate ladder. However, instead of being satisfied with your progress, every achievement adds more stress and complexity to your life. You're beginning to doubt that the phrase "I'll be happy as soon as..." will ever be true. For thirteen years I've coached over three hundred talented, driven professionals who faced the same challenge. This experience has taught me that there's a better way to live. In The Overachiever's Dilemma, I'll help you understand why having a "Type A" personality makes you feel like you're running on a treadmill, unable to slow down long enough to catch your breath. More importantly, I'll introduce a simple system that's helped hundreds of professionals grow their careers and actually enjoy their hard work

Author : Alexandra Robbins
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401386148
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overachievers written by Alexandra Robbins and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten-year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high school, where she follows heart-tuggingly likeable students including "AP" Frank, who grapples with horrifying parental pressure to succeed; Audrey, whose panicked perfectionism overshadows her life; Sam, who worries his years of overachieving will be wasted if he doesn't attend a name-brand college; Taylor, whose ambition threatens her popular girl status; and The Stealth Overachiever, a mystery junior who flies under the radar. Robbins tackles teen issues such as intense stress, the student and teacher cheating epidemic, sports rage, parental guilt, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that students are driven to suicide and depression because of a B. With a compelling mix of fast-paced narrative and fascinating investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.

Author : Karen Zelan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489906126
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Risks of Knowing written by Karen Zelan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It gives me great pleasure to introduce this important and fascinating book on the internal dilemmas youngsters face in school, which often cause them to stop learning. We are all too ready to ascribe learning problems to an inability to learn and leave it at that. This book should go a long way toward convincing us that using such simpleminded explanations and remedial efforts based on them do not work. Unlike other books that identify the causes of learning disabilities in children or that detail society's impact on the so-called helpless child, The Risks of Knowing is an in-depth study of young people who for reasons of intrapsychic conflicts and of intellectual development make a nega tive decision about the learning process. This book is unique in its thorough analysis of the conflicts young people have with learning and in its treatment prescriptions. In case after case, Karen Zelan demonstrates that if young people declare themselves unable to learn it is because for some valid reasons they believe learning is dangerous. The reasons that cause a decision to fail often remain unconscious until they are brought to the child's awareness. When the child is helped to understand the source of any inner dilemmas, both child and parents are able to find better solutions to immediate learning difficulties. Karen Zelan brings a rare expertise to the problems young people find in academic learning.

Author : Peter H. Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overachievers written by Peter H. Engel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter H. Engel
Publisher : National Textbook Company
ISBN 13 : 9780872510241
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overachievers written by Peter H. Engel and published by National Textbook Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger D. Congleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197642780
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solving Social Dilemmas written by Roger D. Congleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Solving Social Dilemmas demonstrates that social, political, and economic progress occur when ethical dispositions evolve in a manner that solves or ameliorate social dilemmas. That same process can account for the emergence of prosperous societies in the West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was substantially a consequence of increased moral support for commerce and careers in commerce that had emerged during the previous two centuries. To support these claims, two analytical histories are developed. The first uses elementary game theory to illustrate how critical social dilemmas can be solved by internalized ethical ideas about "proper" or "moral" conduct. That analytical history implies that in the absence of solutions to critical social dilemmas-of which there are many thousands-social, political, and economic development tends to be curtailed. The second analytical history surveys three centuries of ethical assessments concerning the proper role of commerce in a good life and good society. The authors reviewed all used economic illustrations to illustrate moral principles or how they may be applied. Because the illustrating examples are ones that their readers would have found "obvious," they shed light on the ethical dispositions in the communities to whom those works were addressed. Together, they reveal that concerns about the effects of market son ethical dispositions were diminishing during the centuries before the great acceleration of commerce in the nineteenth century. In fact, many of the authors reviewed argued that there was a complete harmony between ethical dispositions and commerce. Together the two narratives imply that shifts in norms directly and indirectly account for the relative prosperity of the West compared to other parts of the World during the twentieth century. It turns out that flourishing commercial societies have moral foundations"--

Author : Hafiz Naim Ali Camp
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490795502
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Love for the "Lawnz" written by Hafiz Naim Ali Camp and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the African American neighborhood of Warwick Lawns, the hub of African American society in Newport News, Virginia, and the people that grew up there, where they went, what they did, and the circle of friends they did it with. You’ll be amazed at their resourcefulness in a neighborhood with no recreational facilities, not even sidewalks.

Author : M. Bakri Musa
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469743922
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Malay Dilemma Revisited written by M. Bakri Musa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malay Dilemma Revisited is a critical and balanced analysis of Malaysia's preferential race policy and its impact on the nation's delicate race dynamics and economy. Unlike America's affirmative action, Malaysia's version is far more aggressive and pervasive and has been remarkably successful in creating a sizable and stable Bumiputra (indigenous group) middle class. The price tag is significant: distortion of freemarket dynamics and consequent inefficiency. Perversely, the policy impairs rather than strengthens Bumiputras' ability to compete. In contrast to quotas and other set-aside programs that are the hallmark of the current policy, the writer presents an alternative strategy aimed primarily at enhancing Bumiputra competitiveness. The proposed approach would not negatively impact the economy nor interfere with the freemarket. Equally important, it would not arouse resentment from other Malaysians. The first objective would be to modernize the nation's archaic educational system to emphasize English, mathematics, the sciences, and technical training. Secondly, the influences of religious and royal institutions must be curtailed, and the rates of urbanization and population growth reduced. The primary objective is in enhancing competitiveness, not on meeting arbitrarily picked numerical goals and targets.

Author : L. Borghi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401020698
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Primary Education written by L. Borghi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods. The purpose of this study is to sketch a broad picture of the Euro pean educational scene which may be brought about by the impact of innovation in industrialised countries. We are only too aware of the difficulties inherent in our task. Even when projections and forecasts are firmly rooted in an analysis of existing data, they are liable to be contradicted by the facts. We shall attempt to allow for those alternative situations which may provide the context for the organisation and functioning of primary education. We make no claim to portray the European primary school at the end of the twentieth or at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We shall do no more than analyse existing achievements and experiments based on research in the associated fields of education, psychology and sociology and from this analysis extrapolate a series of forecasts based on objective factors of a social and intellectual nature, offering realistic hypotheses for the future. Our aim is to provide sound guidelines for those who are to build a better future for our children.

Author : NA Borghi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401748292
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Primary Education written by NA Borghi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods. The purpose of this study is to sketch a broad picture of the Euro pean educational scene which may be brought about by the impact of innovation in industrialised countries. We are only too aware of the difficulties inherent in our task. Even when projections and forecasts are firmly rooted in an analysis of existing data, they are liable to be contradicted by the facts. We shall attempt to allow for those alternative situations which may provide the context for the organisation and functioning of primary education. We make no claim to portray the European primary school at the end of the twentieth or at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We shall do no more than analyse existing achievements and experiments based on research in the associated fields of education, psychology and sociology and from this analysis extrapolate a series of forecasts based on objective factors of a social and intellectual nature, offering realistic hypotheses for the future. Our aim is to provide sound guidelines for those who are to build a better future for our children.