9 Things Successful People Do Differently
Purchased by Umesh Phadke (phadke.u@gmail.com) on December 22, 2012
Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
Heidi Grant Halvorson
Harvard Business Review Press Boston, Massachusetts
ISBN: 978-1-4221-8561-2 Product number: 11065 Copyright 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing All rights reserved
Purchased by Umesh Phadke (phadke.u@gmail.com) on December 22, 2012
CONTENTS
Introduction 1. Get Specific 2. Seize the Moment to Act on Your Goals 3. Know Exactly How Far You Have Left to Go 4. Be a Realistic Optimist 5. Focus on Getting Better, Rather Than Being Good 6. Have Grit 7. Build Your Willpower Muscle 8. Don’t Tempt Fate 9. Focus on What You Will Do, Not What You Won’t Do Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author
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Introduction
your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even very brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer—that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others—is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fact, decades of research on achievement suggest that successful people reach their personal and professional goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do. These are the nine things that successful people do—the strategies they use to set and pursue goals (sometimes without consciously realizing it) that, according to decades of research, have the biggest impact on
Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
Heidi Grant Halvorson
Harvard Business Review Press Boston, Massachusetts
ISBN: 978-1-4221-8561-2 Product number: 11065 Copyright 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing All rights reserved
Purchased by Umesh Phadke (phadke.u@gmail.com) on December 22, 2012
CONTENTS
Introduction 1. Get Specific 2. Seize the Moment to Act on Your Goals 3. Know Exactly How Far You Have Left to Go 4. Be a Realistic Optimist 5. Focus on Getting Better, Rather Than Being Good 6. Have Grit 7. Build Your Willpower Muscle 8. Don’t Tempt Fate 9. Focus on What You Will Do, Not What You Won’t Do Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author
iv 1 4 8 11 15 19 23 26 29 32 33 34
Find more digital content or join the discussion on www.hbr.org. The web addresses referenced and linked in this book were live and correct at the time of the book’s publication but may be subject to change.
Request for permission to reproduce this publication in whole or in part should be directed to permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu.
Purchased by Umesh Phadke (phadke.u@gmail.com) on December 22, 2012
Introduction
your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even very brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer—that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others—is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fact, decades of research on achievement suggest that successful people reach their personal and professional goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do. These are the nine things that successful people do—the strategies they use to set and pursue goals (sometimes without consciously realizing it) that, according to decades of research, have the biggest impact on