Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
About this audiobook
Whether it's wanting to impress our bosses, find a loving relationship, straighten out our finances, or take better care of ourselves, we all feel that there is at least one part of our lives that is in real need of improvement. We want to do better, but somehow we fall short and end up feeling like we don't have what it takes to reach our goals. And we could not be more wrong.
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 work—and by showing us how to avoid what typically goes wrong.
Dr. Grant Halvorson offers insights—many surprising—that listeners can use immediately, including how to:
– Set a goal so that you will persist even in the face of adversity; – Build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle; – 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.
About the author
Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, is a social psychologist, educational consultant, and the recipient of several grants from the National Science Foundation. She is also an expert blogger for Psychology Today and Fast Company. She lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and New York City with her husband and two children.
Dr. Carol S. Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her book Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship. Her work has been featured in such publications as the New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Time. She has also appeared on Today and 20/20. She currently lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.
Heather Henderson is a voice talent, theater critic, and dramaturg. In addition to narrating audiobooks, she has voiced hundreds of commercial and educational projects, and her arts reviews and poems have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. She holds MFA and DFA degrees from the Yale School of Drama. She lives in Oregon.
