 What is going on guys? Lux here for the MD journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. This video I'm going to give you the one book that completely changed my college experience. Alright guys hopefully you guys are having a great day. I'm going to try to make this video as quick as possible but it's very high yield information because this is the book. Honestly I should say this is the author that completely transformed how I saw learning, studying, and just self-improvement. So without further ado, no suspense. The book that really transformed how I looked at things is this book. Seems kind of dorky right talking about college but how to make become a straight A student by Cal Newport. If you guys aren't familiar with Cal Newport, google him after this video. He is a computer science scientist, professor, spent through MIT. I believe he's at Georgetown now. Super and he's like at Dartmouth, very smart and the way he looks at life, the way he looks at learning, perception, prioritizing, time management. A lot of things that I talk about in the perspective of med school, he was probably the first one to expose me that you can become better at studying, you can become better at planning your day, you know better at every aspect of your life. And so the same reason that when I started med school I was like you know I'm not studying eight hours I need to figure out a shorter way to do it. He's kind of the inspiration for it. So this book is just absolutely amazing. I would highly recommend it. He breaks down, especially if you're a pre-med, how to study for various different classes. So your biology classes versus your English classes, he breaks down nice formats of how to approach your learning to where you're retaining info at the highest yield from the very start. That's kind of what I teach throughout my material. So a lot of it's inspired by Cal Newport, highly recommended. Now I did say author that really transformed my college experience because it just wasn't that book. There are several but two that I read and this one I think I read in a day, my first day before I started my college experience, which is how to win at college. This is a very quick read. Again, I read it I think in an evening and it's just small little chapters or maybe one or two pages of every single thing you can do in college. Classes you can take, different things you can do as a university student that will completely transform your experience. And it really got my will's turning on what could I do that the average pre-med wasn't if I wanted to get into med school. I used a lot of inspiration from the book to make different, when they say a zig when everyone's zagging, I was doing that as a pre-med. And this is a book that really kind of inspired me to do it. I highly recommend it. It's a very quick read. I'll link both of these books in the description. I've read many of Cal Newport's books since reading these two and continues to put out new ones as well. And I'll link those down below too, but definitely if you're a pre-med, check out those two. Even honestly, if you're a med student, check out how to become a straight A student because the principles that he lays in there are made for even the best learners to become even better. And so that's why the book really transformed how I learned. Again, I was an all A student when I found that book. And I used it in my grades not only got better, but I was spending less time. That's ultimate goal. That's what I try to teach you guys to do. You know, without belaboring the point, definitely check out the book. I definitely want to do more book recommendations throughout the channel and the MD journey. But I want to make my first book recommendation something that's really has impacted my life. And it's really probably a good reason of why the MD journey even exists today. So hopefully you guys grab at least one of them. Let me know what you think in the comments section. If you have read them, let me know as well. You guys have any questions, comment down below, like this video if you enjoyed it, subscribe to the channel if you want more content like this on a weekly basis or daily basis, depending on when you're seeing it. But I will see you guys soon. Thanks for watching guys. Take care.