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Think Big
- Author
- Dr Grace Lordan
- Narrator
- Grace Lordan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 March 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
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
Critics Review
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A practical and accessible guide to using behavioural science in your career
Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women
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Details
- Author
- Dr Grace Lordan
- Narrator
- Grace Lordan
- Duration
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241991817
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Advice on careers and achieving success, Behavioural economics, Popular psychology, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 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 backThink 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
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