How to be a High School Superstar a revolutionary plan to get into college by standing out (without burning out)
What if getting into your reach schools didn't require four years of excessive A.P.-taking, overwhelming activity schedules, and constant stress? In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport explores the world of relaxed superstars--students who scored spots at the nation's top colleg...
| Main Author: | Newport, Cal. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Broadway Books,
©2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The law of underscheduling. Horseshoe crabs and blogs
- Rethinking "passion"
- The making of the relaxed superstar
- The systematic superstar
- The underscheduled student
- The law of focus. Solar panels, stress, and Stanford
- The superstar effect
- Good begets good
- When more is less
- The law of innovation. The laziest student at Bella Vista High School
- The failed-simulation effect
- Lassiter's insight
- The three rules of innovation
- A tale of three innovations.