Heidi Grant Halvorson
Heidi Grant Halvorson is an American social psychologist, researcher, and author known for her work on motivation, goal pursuit, and perception. She has written popular books including Succeed, Focus (with E. Tory Higgins), and No One Understands You and What to Do About It, and has contributed to Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today.
Books
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1. Succeed
How We Can Reach Our Goals
A research-based guide to reaching goals by getting specific, making if-then plans, tracking progress, and matching tactics to your motivational focus (promotion vs. prevention). It dispels willpower myths, encourages realistic optimism and a growth mindset, clarifies when to think in terms of why versus how, and offers practical strategies to handle distractions, temptations, and setbacks so you can stay persistent and improve at work and in life.
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