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"Using Positive Psych, Chaos Theory, and Visual Mapping to Make Career Decisions AND Using Travel to Boost Your Career Potential and Creativity"

Posted by StephanieWestAllen: "Two books I now want to read were reviewed in the Boston Globe. An excerpt from "A cheaper, smarter road to college, and career" in which the author is talking about the book You Majored in What?: Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career:

[The book's author Katharine Brooks] uses what she calls "wise wandering," a system of positive psychology, chaos theory, and visual mapping techniques to help students - and anyone - figure out what skills they have, what personal values matter most to them, and how to channel it all into a career they'll love.

Sounds like a fun process and perhaps useful for decisions about other matters in addition to career. I'll know after I read the book.

The other book is entitled The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education. From the review:

Crushing college costs and an unfriendly job market getting you down? Maybe it's time to look at the future a little differently.

Billed as the anticollege prep handbook, Maya Frost's exuberant "The New Global Student" promises that you can do better than blindly following the traditional hypercompetitive, 

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).