Books Published for Your Tempo

Based on twenty years of the author’s teaching experience and written in conversation with psychologists, student advisors, teachers, and students, Learning to Learn is a small book and a big departure from the existing “post-secondary student guide” formula. 

Written with sensitivity to students’ emotional difficulties, academic obstacles, neurodivergent learning styles, and life challenges, Learning to Learn refuses the long-held, and incorrect, belief that there is only one way to learn (most books never even acknowledge that neurodivergent students exist!). It does so by addressing all learners and acknowledging their emotional, soft-skill, and hard-skill challenges. At the same time, this book invites students to practice the mindsets, attitudes, and strategies that ensure emotionally and mentally healthy learning, so they can plan a realistic approach to achieve goals they set for themselves. 

 Learning to Learn uses up-to-date studies of effective learning to ensure its readers learn to ask and answer the questions other guides overlook: “What is learning?”, “What is the right mindset for school?”, “What can I ask my professors, and how do I do it?”, “What does it mean to ‘do my best’ in a healthy way?”, “How do I challenge feelings of being unsuccessful and unskilled?”, “(When) Should I give up?”, “How do I deal with perfectionism and comparing myself to others?”, “Why should I even want an education? Won’t I just be replaced by AI?”. The answers to these questions are ones students will carry with them for the rest of their lives.