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Recommended Reading on Resilience

  

Everyone Suffers from Imposter Syndrome - Here's How to Handle it  by Andy Molinsky

How People Learn to become Resilient  by Maria Konnikova 

Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure  by David L. Kirp

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway  by Susan Jeffers 

Resilience 101: How to Be a More Resilient Person by  Tchiki Davis

How to Be Resilient: 8 Steps to Success When Life Gets Hard by Eric Barker

On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus by Jessica Bennett

Let’s Talk about Impostor Syndrome with Incoming Students by Maria Klawe

The Problem with Being Perfect by Olga Khazan

Why College Students Should Fail Well, Fail Forward and Fail Greatly by Terri Williams

So You've Made a Huge Mistake. What Now? by Tim Herrera

 

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