Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals [Paperback]

Do you ever wonder how some people make success look so simple? InSucceed, award-winning social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson offers counterintuitive insights, illuminating stories, and science-based information that can help anyone:

   • Set a goal to pursueevenin 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.

 

A must-read. —Matthew Kelly,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Rhythm of Life

Both brilliant and practical, entertaining and rigorous. —Edward Hallowell, M.D., author ofMarried to Distraction

If you have goals, then youshouldread this book. If you manage others or are in a position to help others achieve their goals, then youhaveto read this book! It's filled with fascinating studies revealing the secrets of success. —Peter Bregman, CEO of Bregman Partners,Harvard Business Reviewblogger, and author of18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

Strategies people can utilize to help themselves achieve success. —CareerBuilder

Halvorson makes academic studies palatable by writing with clarity and interspersing personal anecdotes along the way. —Publishers WeeklyHEIDI 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 highlĂ`