How To Build Career Success - Behavioural Scientist Dr Grace Lordan

Dr Grace Lordan is an Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and has recently published her book ’Think Big: Take Smalls Steps and Build The Future You Want’, an evidence based guide that looks at how your small actions today will determine your future self and draws on behavioural science to offer every day, actionable solutions that will move you towards your goals. In the conversation Ali takes a deep dive into Grace’s book covering tonnes of behavioural science concepts including how our emotions influence decision making, the relationship between gender and risk aversion and why we procrastinate and fear of failure. You’ll leave the episode with a better understanding of why people stumble in their career journeys, why others succeed and some practical advice to set you off on your think big journey! First 200 get 20% off the annual premium subscription for Brilliant: 00:00 Intro 2:13 Government Advisory for Productivity 5:41 Finding your Me 12:13 Setting goals 20:00 Figuring out what you want 29:48 Behavioural Science Research 38:12 Pleasure vs Purpose 40:54 Locus of control 44:16 Anticipating failure 46:22 Gender and risk aversion 52:40 Why do we procrastinate? 57:49 To-do lists & weekly reviews 01:00:00 Affect Heuristic 01:03:06 Caring what other people think 01:05:45 Environment 01:12:13 Quick fire questions 🔗 CONNECT WITH GRACE 💻 Website - 📸 Instagram - 🐦 Twitter: 👥 Linkedin: 📕Grace’s Book, Think Big: 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - 🐦 Twitter - 📸 Instagram - 💻 Website - 👥 Linkedin - 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman - Brandon Sanderson’s fiction series - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman - Think Again by Adam Grant - Adam Grant Ted Talk - 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover their journey’s towards finding joy and fulfilment at work and in life. In each episode our host Ali Abdaal talks to his guests about their philosophies, strategies and tools that have helped them along their personal path to living a life of happiness and meaning. There’s no manual for living a happy life, but we hope that from these shared experiences you’ll leave each episode with practical advice you can use to help you along the way. 🎬 Subscribe to Deep Dive Clips for bitesized podcast clips 🎧 Listen for free on your favourite Podcast platform - search “Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal“ on your podcast app, or click these links: Apple Podcasts - Spotify - RSS - 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we’d love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) 🧠 SPONSORED BY BRILLIANT This episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription. 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @DeepDivePodcast with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you’ve learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜