Academic Success

This book teaches students how to approach law school on their own terms: how to tune out the drumbeat of oppressive expectations and conventional wisdom to create a new breed of law school experience altogether. Young provides readers with practical tools for finding focus, happiness, and a sense of purpose while facing the seemingly endless onslaught of problems law school presents daily.

The Anxious Lawyer provides a straightforward 8-week introductory program on meditation and mindfulness, created by lawyers for lawyers. The program creates an accessible and enjoyable entry into practices that can reduce anxiety, improve focus and clarity, and enrich the quality of life.

The same way musicians would tune their instruments, or chefs would sharpen their knives, law students must sharpen their minds. This book aims to help students "do well" in their ability to learn, and "be well" in the process, by exploring the deep connection between brain health and wellness.

Zen is about simplicity, balance, knowing your universe, knowing yourself, and staying focused on the path to enlightenment. Similarly, these principles should be the foundation for success in law school, and this book details how to put these principles into practice in order to maximize your ability to have a successful law school career.

The Guide to Belonging in Law School accomplishes two discrete goals. First, it introduces students to Socratic classes, exam preparation, and exam writing. Second, it provides a foundation for students to recognize and manage both subtle and explicit barriers that can impede their progress.

Wouldn't it be amazing if you could enhance your happiness and cognitive firepower? If you could reduce your law school stress and expand your resilience, self-confidence, and overall joyfulness? In this book, law students will learn a wide collection of easy-to-apply, science-based tools for drastically improving their emotional well-being, mental strength, and academic success.

A Short & Happy Guide to Mindfulness explains what mindfulness is and how and why lawyers ought to pay attention to what practicing it offers. Mindfulness does not suddenly melt all spousal disagreements, nor does it provide lottery tickets to cure all financial woes. Mindfulness can, however, offer a place of relative calm from which to view the dizzying pace of life.