Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

📖 The Scoop

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, social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson offers insights, stories, and science-based information that can help anyone: * Set a goal to pursue 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 Whether you want to motivate your kids, your employees, or just yourself, Succeed unlocks the secrets of achievement, and shows you how to create new possibilities in every area of your life. Table of contents: Part One: Get Ready * Chapter 1: Do you know where you are going? * Chapter 2: Do you know where your goals come from? Part two: Get set * Chapter 3: The goals that keep you moving forward * Chapter 4: Goals for optimists and goals for pessimists * Chapter 5: Goals can make you happy * Chapter 6: The right goal for you * Chapter 7: The right goals for them Part three: Go * Chapter 8: Conquer the goal saboteurs * Chapter 9: Make a simple plan * Chapter 10: Build the self-control muscle * Chapter 11: Keep it real * Chapter 12: Know when to hang on * Chapter 13: Give the right feedback.

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