The only book to fully integrate The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), it offers personalized strategies for achieving academic success based on proven models.

Striving for Excellence links current research in individual learning styles with proven study skills to help new and first year college students achieve an optimal learning experience.  Using a comprehensive approach that both supports and challenges new students, this evidence-based book provides helpful strategies that students can use in their first year of adjusting to college as well as throughout their college career.

An innovative first-edition text, Striving for Excellence creates a dynamic equilibrium between asking students to set personally meaningful and challenging goals and supporting their achievement efforts with proven models for success. At the same time, each skill and concept covered is applied while teaching each student to recognize his or her unique qualities, strengths, and capabilities. In short, this study skills guide creates a cycle that supports student achievement while challenging students to achieve.