Students gathered at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center on Friday to receive help guiding their lives down the path of success.
Nine students attended the first Words of Wisdom book club meeting of the semester, which was organized by the Multicultural Center.
David Taylor, assistant director of the Multicultural Center, introduced the book "The Success Principles," and he discussed responsibility as the first principle of success.
Taylor said responsibility follows the formula "Event + Response = Outcome." Most people blame an event on somebody or something else and take no responsibility for themselves when they do not get the outcome they want, Taylor said.
"We spend most of our time blaming those outside of us," Taylor said. "So, what you have to do is change your response to get the outcome that you want."
Taylor asked students how they could be 10 percent more responsible for their lives, health and fitness and happiness.
While divided into groups, students wrote down ideas about how the could be more responsible.
Answers included things such as calling home more often, turning the TV off, managing money better and spending at least 30 minutes at the gym.
Students then filled out worksheets with questions about what aspects of their lives they need to be more responsible about.
Junior anthropology major Jessica LaFountain said the meeting will help her direct her life better.
"I feel like this will help me because I'm kind of lost with what I want to do with the rest of my life for right now," she said. "So I hope, like, actually writing down my goals and learning how to be successful will help me."
Jovan Dixon, a graduate student studying applied social psychology, said there will be long-term benefits from the discussion.
"I think it's something that I'm going to benefit from in a long term because this helps me put in concrete what I have as abstract right now about my life," she said.
Taylor said there would be, at most, two more meetings during the Fall Semester, and he would talk about the second success principle, "Deciding What I Want," at the next meeting section.
Students who signed a contract agreeing to attend three more meetings received free copies of the book.
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