Ten notable advice books for graduates

Roman Krznaric is the author of How to Find Fulfilling Work. John-Paul Flintoff is the author of How to Change the World. For The Daily Beast, together they came up with a list of ten books new graduates can turn to for practical insights about the real world.

One of Flintoff's suggestions:

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
by Keith Johnstone

Johnstone was a schoolteacher before he worked in theater, in the 1950s, and his experiments with improvisation, though they were originally targeted at actors, possess revolutionary insights for anybody interested in interpersonal dynamics. Read the first page and you won’t want to stop learning from his experiments on the physical and verbal signs we use to indicate status, our capacity to be spontaneous and creative (or not), and the delightful fun to be had from improvising as a way to understand ourselves better. When I found out Johnstone was still alive and teaching, I joined the yearlong waiting list to train with him. And when I’d been trained myself, I started teaching others.

Read about one of Krznaric's recommendations.

Also see: Five top books for graduates that will last a lifetime.

--Marshal Zeringue