📚Best Books Every Engineering Student Should Read📚
Hello everyone, If you are confused to choose which best book should we read in 2021 that will change your life. Then we will provide this article so that you can easily find out what are the most essential books for students to read and it's doesn't matter what age you are or which type of students you are. Whether you are in school, college, university or you are just life long learner these books are going to help you no matter where you are. And we are defiantly sure one of the books helps you with the common problems you all face like procrastination, laziness, low energy, and distraction.
So how do you become more productive and what are the books that are going to help you to stop that procrastination, laziness, low energy, activate and unleash that potential inside you. So let's read this article.
Thinking about the importance of knowledge transfer, I decided to compile the Best Books Every Engineering Student Should Read.
1) Atomic Habits: The life-changing Book
I was aware of many concepts of this book through the website of the author jamesclear.com In fact that the place from where I came to know James first time. The article on habits where he mentions process is important than goals was my starting point. I continued reading his updates through the consistent newsletter he publishes through his site.
Once the book was announced and available it was a no-brainer for me to purchase my own copy to have all the concepts in one place and to go through the ideas in succession.
This book provides supplementary material like cheat sheets and templates which are very useful for planning your own habit profile and continuous improvement.
This book is action-oriented. The concepts present an action plan for trying them in your own situation and to practice the ideas directly in day-to-day life. This makes the book an instruction manual for nurturing good habits and killing bad habits. I was able to immediately relate to many new habits to start and many not-so-good habits I can stop and avoid using the identification pattern provided in the book.
The principle presented in the book about understanding who to become, that is finding out what identity to achieve instead of just starting or stopping a habit is very helpful.
One important aspect of this book is the to-the-point summary provided after every chapter. Once you have read the book this summary helps recall all the concepts in a short time and becomes a concise model to revise the concepts.
The book is engaging and is suitable for reading cover to cover as it provides many stories and references. As the concept of the process than goals was already known to me through the Learning How to Learn MOOC at Coursera, I was glad to find the same concept mentioned in this book and was able to relate quickly with the principles.
The book also becomes a workbook and reference material once you have gone through it. The chapters are divided into sections that can be referred to for the particular situation at hand.
I will recommend this book to anyone who is eager to understand why habits are formed and how to nurture good habits and avoid bad ones.
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About the Author
James Clear is an expert on habits and decision-making. He made his name as the author of one of the fastest-growing email newsletters in history, which grew from zero to 100,000 subscribers in under two years. Today, his newsletter has over 400,000 subscribers and his articles at James clear receive 10 million hits each year. His work frequently appears in publications including the New York Times, Forbes, and Business Insider.
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- Publisher: Random House Business Books (30 October 2018)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847941834
- ISBN-13: 978-1847941831
- Item Weight: 390 g
- Dimensions : 15.3 x 2.3 x 23.4 cm
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Generic Name: Book
2) The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
This is a life-changing book and the best habit-forming book. You must really have patience and concentration to read this book and to understand it completely.
Author Stephen R Covey explains how we see the world that is our paradigm. And how is the change in our paradigm can lead to a change in our positive mental attitude(PMA) and human and Public Relationships.
The author gives many stories to explain the concept very clearly.
He tells that we need to live a life of integrity, contribute & make a difference in the world and raise to the greatness that lies within each one of us.
The Seven Habits are
1.Be Proactive.
2. Begin with the end in mind.
3. Put First Things First.
4. Think win-win.
5. First seek to understand, then to be understood.
6. Synergize.
7. Sharpen the saw.
The author gives many stories to explain the concept very clearly.
He tells that we need to live a life of integrity, contribute & make a difference in the world and raise to the greatness that lies within each one of us.
The Seven Habits are
1.Be Proactive.
2. Begin with the end in mind.
3. Put First Things First.
4. Think win-win.
5. First seek to understand, then to be understood.
6. Synergize.
7. Sharpen the saw.
Be Proactive:
It is about taking responsibility and initiatives
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Begin with the end in mind:
It means we need to have a goal for everything. It is a sort of vision. How we wish to see in every aspect of our life like with spouse, family, money, work, friend pleasure, the enemy.
Put First Things First:
It is about taking responsibility and initiatives
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Begin with the end in mind:
It means we need to have a goal for everything. It is a sort of vision. How we wish to see in every aspect of our life like with spouse, family, money, work, friend pleasure, the enemy.
Put First Things First:
The author divides our entire time into 4 quadrants.
Important and urgent-Q1
Important and not urgent-Q2
Not important and urgent-Q3
Not important and not urgent-Q4.
Important are goals kept in Habit 2.
Think win-win
The author tells in every situation we need to think about the benefit of ourselves and others. how can an outcome be useful to all the parties? It's innovative thinking.
First seek to understand, then to be understood:
Stephen presses on the issue that first, we need to understand others their situation, feelings, and thoughts then directly telling how we feel or what is our decision directly.
Most important of all the habits. It's most difficult to cultivate.
Synergize:
It means a whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The essence of synergy is to value differences- to respect them, to build on strengths & to compensate for weakness.
Synergies everywhere in nature.
Sharpen the saw.
It deals with the four aspects of life.
Physical, mental, social/emotional, spiritual.
It's about preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have.
It's a quadrant 2 activity.
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About the Author
About the Author: Stephen R. Covey's educational qualifications include a B.S in Business Administration from the University of Utah, a Doctorate of Religious Education from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Harvard University. He is a self-help author and a speaker. Some of Stephen's other books are Spiritual Roots of Human Relations, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. Stephen has bagged numerous awards like the Golden Gavel Award, The Sikhs 1998 International Man of Peace Award, and the International Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; 12th edition (1 January 2019); Simon & Schuster
- Language: English
- Paperback: 375 pages
- ISBN-10: 1471131823
- ISBN-13: 978-1471131820
- Item Weight: 180 g
- Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm
- Generic Name: Books
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