书名：Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals成功，动机与目标

作者：Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D.
出版社名称：Plume
出版时间：2011
语种：英文
ISBN：9780452297715
商品尺寸：13.4 x 1.6 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：304 （以实物为准）
简单的成事方法，拯救失败人生

世界心理学家、哥伦比亚大学、斯坦福大学教授卡罗尔·S.德韦克作序推荐
“尽力做到完美”“有自信”“不放弃”“有自制力”真的能帮你达成目标、获得幸福？
无法成功只因太信“真理”！
那些看上去很有道理的建议其实都是阻止你实现目标的凶手。
读完Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals《成功，动机与目标》，你将明白一直以来什么事做对了，而什么需要改变。
Review
“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 you should read this book. If you manage others or are in a position to help others achieve their goals, then you have to read this book! It's filled with fascinating studies revealing the secrets of success.”  — Peter Bregman, CEO of Bregman Partners, Harvard Business Review blogger, and author of18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, andGet 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 Weekly
★你苦于老大不小一事无成？

★你是思想的巨人，行动的矮子？
★你认为拖延症无药可救？
★你常常事倍功半？
★你觉得自制力天生，无法培养？
★戒烟、减肥周而复始、难如登天？
我们成功的原因是什么？失败的原因又在哪里？一般人未必说得准。在Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals《成功，动机与目标》里，美国著名社会心理学家海蒂·格兰特·霍尔沃森对传统成功学观点提出质疑，你会发现平时听到的太多建议都是显而易见且无用的——保持积极心态，制订计划，行动起来，做到完美……作者以严谨可靠的科学依据，通过大量极具启发性的实验，为读者揭示了人类动机的基本理论，阐明了树立正确动机与成功实现目标之间的关系，并郑重指出——所有人都能更好地实现目标！
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, award-winning social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson offers counterintuitive insights, illuminating 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.

Heidi Grant Halvorsonis 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 highly-regarded academic bookThe Psychology of Goals, she has authored papers in her field’s most prestigious journals.
Dr. Grant Halvorson is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and was recently elected to the highly selective Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She received her PhD from Columbia University working with Carol Dweck (bestselling author ofMindset: The New Psychology of Success), and her BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

As a social psychologist, I've spent years studying achievement. I've carefully observed thousands of research participants pursue goals at work, in the classroom, on the playing field, and in my own laboratory. I've asked people to fill out weeks of daily diary reports, telling me all about the goals they pursue in their everyday lives. I've reviewed hundreds and hundreds of studies on goals and motivation. And I've come to a few conclusions, two of which I'll share with you now.
Most of us blame our failures on the wrong things. Even very smart, accomplished people don't understand why they succeed or fail. Before I started studying this for a living, my intuitions about achievement were no better than anyone else's. I thought that I was good at school and disastrous at sports because I was born that way. I wasn't—actually, no one is simply “born that way.” I had a lot to learn.
Another conclusion I've reached after all these years of studying achievement is that anyone can be more successful at reaching his or her goals. Anyone can. I really can't emphasize that enough. But the first step is to put aside your beliefs about why you've succeeded or failed in the past, because they are probably wrong. And the second step is to read this book.
You may not be aware that the government keeps track of this, but on its website www.USA.gov, you can find a list of the most popular perennial New Year's resolutions Americans make. On that list, you probably won't be surprised to find both “lose weight” and “quit smoking.” Every January, millions of people—and like me, you may be one of them—have set one of these two goals for themselves, vowing that this is the year that they will finally get healthy, fit into their skinny jeans, or stop spending a small fortune on cigarettes.
According to the latest reports issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), two out of three Americans are overweight, and one in three is obese. The majority of these individuals would very much prefer to weigh less. Overweight individuals not only grapple with an increased susceptibility to heart disease and diabetes, but they contend with the self-esteem-crushing consequences of being heavy in a society in which thin is in. And yet, despite an abundance of diet books and plans, and a very real and powerful desire to be slim, relatively few people who set out to lose weight actually manage to lose it and keep it off long-term. We're not getting any thinner, and our skinny jeans are still waiting for us in our closets.