Think Big, Grace Lordan
Think Big, Grace Lordan
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Think Big
Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want

Author: Grace Lordan

Narrator: Grace Lordan

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 03/25/2021


Synopsis

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What are you doing today to make your dream future come true?

We all have big ambitions for the future but those dreams only become reality if we do something towards them regularly. To achieve audacious goals, we need to take action and make small changes every day. We need to think big and act small.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioural science, Dr Grace Lordan offers immediate actionable solutions and tips that will help you get closer to your dream future, every day.

Focusing on six key areas - your time, goal planning, self-narratives, other people, your environment, and resilience - Dr Lordan reveals practical, science-backed hacks that will help you get ahead. Each chapter introduces us to behavioural science concepts like the 'halo effect', 'confirmation bias', 'affect heuristic' and the 'ostrich effect', to help you better understand yourself and others, so that you can get the most out of your career.

Whether you fantasise about changing industry, landing that big promotion, writing a screenplay or setting up your own company, Think Big creates a clear pathway to the future you want now. Some of the things you'll learn include how to:

· Overcome a fear of failure and throw yourself at opportunity
· Craft the optimum environment for work and give yourself ample time for tasks
· Rewrite self-narratives and tackle imposter syndrome
· Watch out for other people's biases and stop them from holding you back

Think Big provides a practical framework to keep you moving in the right direction towards any goal. It will help you get out of your own way and propel you on the path to success, transforming you from dreamer to doer!

© Dr Grace Lordan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lina on February 11, 2023

This book is pretty good, but I just think I wasn't the right audience. It's more targeted to people who already have started their careers and hit a plateau they want to jump from. Most of the concepts were already familiar to me and the insights, even though very helpful, were too similar to other......more

Goodreads review by *。:゚ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ̀ˋAnna on November 24, 2021

Doesn’t rlly apply to my life rn, very business oriented. What I actually picked up: attend to a network meeting/workshop every month and meet new ppl there, keep ur environment distraction free, build resilience by practicing gratitude and SLEEP ENOUGH.......more

Goodreads review by Salpi on February 02, 2023

Great book full of practical exercises.......more

Goodreads review by Bojan on December 27, 2024

The book is about how behavioral science can help us achieve our mid-term goals via small steps we make regularly. Bellow is a summary of first part of the book that can give you good overview of what to expect. It is easy to have big dreams, but it is hard and takes years of effort to make them real......more

Goodreads review by Beiii on December 25, 2024

Grace Lordan’s Think Big, Take Small Steps offers a blend of behavioural economics, career advice, and personal anecdotes aimed at helping readers craft fulfilling and meaningful professional lives. This book serves as a good refresher on behavioral economics concepts like cognitive biases, habit fo......more


Quotes

Insights from Behavioral Science are being used around the globe for a variety of purposes but never, until now for career building-something Grace Lordan does systematically, eloquently, and instructively in Think Big Robert Cialdini, Author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

If you know it's time to aim higher in your career, Think Big provides a clear and compelling behavioral science toolkit to help you realize your goals and replace your current reality with something bigger, better and more enjoyable Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You and executive education faculty, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

Want to advance your career fast without compromising personal happiness? Think Big can help. It provides a handy, science driven framework to career building that can fit around even the busiest person's daily life Jonah Berger, Wharton Professor and Bestselling Author of The Catalyst

In a refreshingly down to earth way, Grace shows how the insights from behavioural science can not only help you to build the career you want but also the career that will make you happy. This book will interest and entertain you whatever your stage of career Professor Paul Dolan, London School of Economics, author of Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After

On your journey to thinking big - about yourself and about the world - Grace Lordan is a wise and winning guide. She's written the ultimate primer on enlisting modest changes to achieve monumental goals Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN

A practical and compelling treatise on leveraging big insights from behavioural science to enable big upgrades to your career. Cal Newport, author of A World Without Email

Engaging, practical and insightful. Reading Think Big is like having a savvy performance coach sat inside your head, helping correct your path towards the career you really want Graham Alcott, author of Productivity Ninja

This is a rare self-help book that's actually informed by evidence. Drawing on her knowledge of behavioural economics and psychology, Grace Lordan shares a host of perceptive, practical tips for getting out of your own way and making progress toward your career goals Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and ORIGINALS, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

In this must-read book, Grace equips you with the know-how required to take your career to the next level. This book will not only inspire you to think bigger, but to take immediate action in turning those dreams of yours into reality. When you think big and start taking small, consistent steps forward each day, anything becomes possible! Simon Ong

A practical and accessible guide to using behavioural science in your career Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women