Succeed : How We Can Reach Our Goals
by Halvorson, Heidi Grant; Dweck, Carol S.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-12-27
Publisher(s): Plume
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Summary
"Strategies people can utilize to help themselves achieve success." -CareerBuilder Do you ever wonder why Asian students are able to achieve so much more than their American counterparts? Even very smart, very accomplished people are very bad at understanding why they succeed or fail. In Succeed, award-winning social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson offers counterintuitive insights, illuminating stories, and science-based information that can help anyone: " Set a goal to pursue evenin the face of adversity " Build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle " Avoid the kind of positive thinking that makes people fail Whether you want to motivate your kids, your employees, or just yourself, Succeedunlocks the secrets of achievement, and shows you how to create new possibilities in every area of your life.
Author Biography
Heidi Grant Halvorson is a social psychologist, educational consultant, and most recently assistant professor of psychology at Lehigh University. She has received several grants from the National Science Foundation. In addition to her work as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book The Psychology of Goals (Guilford, 2009), she has authored papers in her field’s most prestigious journals.
Dr. Grant Halvorson is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and was recently elected to the highly selective Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She received her PhD from Columbia University working with Carol Dweck (author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success), and her BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Get Ready | |
| Do You Know Where You Are Going? | p. 3 |
| Do You Know Where Your Goals Come From? | p. 31 |
| Get Set | |
| The Goals That Keep You Moving Forward | p. 55 |
| Goals for Optimists and Goals for Pessimists | p. 77 |
| Goals Can Make You Happy | p. 105 |
| The Right Goal for You | p. 125 |
| The Right Goals for Them | p. 141 |
| Go | |
| Conquer the Goal Saboteurs | p. 159 |
| Make a Simple Plan | p. 171 |
| Build the Self-Control Muscle | p. 183 |
| Keep It Real | p. 197 |
| Know When to Hang On | p. 209 |
| Give the Right Feedback | p. 223 |
| Epilogue | p. 237 |
| Bonus | p. 239 |
| Nine Things Successful People Do Differently Goal Troubleshooter | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 251 |
| Notes | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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