Succeed, Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD
Succeed, Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD
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Succeed
How We Can Reach Our Goals

Author: Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD

Narrator: Heather Henderson

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/23/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help


Synopsis

Most of us have no idea why we fail to reach our goals. Now eminent social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson shows us how we can finally win by revealing how goals really workand by showing us how to avoid what typically goes wrong. Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson offers insights that listeners can use immediately, including how to set goals so that they will persist no matter what; build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle; and avoid the kind of positive thinking that makes people fail. The strategies outlined in this book will not only help everyone reach their own goals but will also prove invaluable to parents, teachers, coaches, and employers. Dr. Grant Halvorson shows listeners a new approach to problem solving that will change the way they approach their entire lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mitton

This is NOT a clichéd self-help book. In a similar vein to Piers Steele’s book “The Procrastination Equation” and Kelly McGonigal’s “Maximum Willpower” Heidi Grant Halvorson’s “Succeed” is written by an academic (day-job when not scribbling is that of a Social Psychologist). And just like those other......more

Goodreads review by Prashob

This won't be your typical mumbo-jumbo self help book, it's scientifically rigorous with lots of great as examples, you will learn quite a lot of important things like: 1) What are goals,how to set one. 2)what sort of goals to be pursued. 3)Goals for Optimists and pessimists. 4)Why perseverance matters......more