Think Big - Dr. Grace Lordan
How I discovered it
It was one of Ali’s recommandations. In his book review video mentions about the ideea of ‘‘Task over name” when choosing a carrer as well as what does behavioular science tell us about goal achievement. These things sparked my curiosity and that’s when I knew that Think Big will be my next lecture.
Who should read it ?
As long as you have some goals set of your life, or at least a vision on what you would like to achieve but don’t know how to get there, then this book is for you. Think Big is rather a manual of how to use behavioural schience in your advantage. Dr Grace Lordan offers plenty of deep personal knowledge and personal development extercises.
Summary and impact on me
When thinking big and working towards a gol there are six main area we should focus: your time, goal planning, self-narratives, other people, your environment, and resilience. For each of these she offers a set of behavioural science concpts and what can you do about them.
‘‘Task over tite’’ was one of the concepts presented in the book. This is the idea that we first have to identify which tasks we do that bring us pleasure. For some of us can be writing, organising, experiemnting and so on. These are nomally a blend between what we are good at, find interesting but also that challenge us in a way. This concept tell us that we shoukd shape our career based on what tasks we like to do, and not over which job titles sound the most interesting.
We all have our imaginary verions of who we would like to be, but rarely think about what we need to do to become the way we want. To become aware if we are taking the right steps in the right direction Dr Grace Lordan advices us to record all activities we do in a period of time and mark a ME+ next to the ones which bring us closer to our goals. In general as humans, we overestimate what we can do in a year but underestimate what we can do in 10. This saying that we often do not take the right stepts in the right direction.
Thinking big is a journey which takes years and involves constant self improvement. Small actions repeated constantly have bigger results than rare big actions. The compound effect is the most powerful one.
How the book changed me
Task over title. I am curently keen on discovering the most suited career for me and I am looking more into my daily tasks rather than interesting names. This has certainly opened door which I didn’t even know about.
Conclusion
Great book! To fully emerge the information from this book is great to read it multiple times.
