Think Big

Take Small Steps and Build the Career You Want

De: Grace Lordan

Narrado por: Grace Lordan

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!

©2021 Dr Grace Lordan (P)2021 Penguin Audio

A self-help book that was actually helpful, practical and evidence-based.

This book offered a lot of insights that are not just useful for personal planning or big thinking goals. Many behavioral science concepts were discussed and easy to understand examples where offered.

The summaries of insights at the end of each chapter and the assignments for readers are a good way to prompt action.

The audio was quite fast for me so I set it as a slower speed; the speaker’s accent and tone are friendly and engaging.

I would recommend this book to friends.

it was a great book goes step by step of thinking different.

I like story telling of each chapter goes, it’s a way to walk You through from zero to hero.

Exceptional

This piece of work is extremely insightful! So easy to understand, so simple, and full of research findings. Why is this not a mandatory class in secondary education institutions. I wish I read these insights when I was much younger. I have never read a more interactive and interesting book. Every sentiment is backed up by facts, cases, examples etc. Professor Lordan does an amazing job narrating the book as well. Hopefully more books and insights will be published by the Prof. Lordan in the coming years.

Hard to follow

Too many things are mentioned, then it becomes flat. It is hard to grasp what is key insights. The audio book is hard to follow when there is no clear breaks between different topics.

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I am not sure how this book is useful or necessary. Everything in here is common sense and/or basic abstraction