Heidi Grant Halvorson

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Heidi Grant Halvorson


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Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson is a social psychologist who researches, writes, and speaks about the science of motivation. She is the Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia Business School, and author of the best-selling books:

Succeed: How We Can All Reach Our Goals, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing The World for Success and Influence (co-written with E. Tory Higgins), and The 8 Motivational Challenges.

HGH is also a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, 99u, Fast Company, WSJ.com, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Psychology Today.

In addition to her work as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book The Psychology of Goals (Guilford, 2009), she has
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How can organizations adopt a Get Better mindset? (video)

Here's a brief video I recorded while speaking at the 925 Design Festival in Helsinki, Finland last month.


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“Difficult but possible is the key. That’s because more difficult goals cause you to, often unconsciously, increase your effort, focus, and commitment to the goal; persist longer; and make better use of the most effective strategies.”
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

“The uncomfortable truth is that most of us don’t come across the way we intend. We can’t see ourselves truly objectively, and neither can anyone else. Human beings have a strong tendency to distort other people’s feedback to fit their own views. We know this intellectually, and yet we rarely seem to recognize it as it’s happening.”
Heidi Halvorson, No One Understands You and What to Do About It

“People don't just want to be seen positively by others - they want to be seen the way they see themselves. Psychologists call this the desire for self-verification...”
Heidi Grant Halvorson, No one understands you, and what to do about it

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