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Welcome to the HBR ID Acast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish.

We've interviewed a number of people on the show about problem solving and learning

from mistakes. Those are critical skills that help people continue to learn and

grow in their careers. But we don't just learn from mistakes. There's quite a bit of research

that shows just how important successes are to learning. For example, organizations that

don't just celebrate but study their successes are more likely to repeat them. And that goes

for individuals too. Studying the successes of others can provide a good deal of insight

in how to change your own practices for the better. For this episode, we're bringing back

a conversation with motivational psychologist Heidi Grant. She wrote the HBR article,

nine things successful people do differently. And she spoke to former HBR ID Acast host

Sarah Green Carmichael about it. I hope you enjoy this episode and that it does you some good

in 2022.

So first I wanted to ask you just about the genesis of this list of the nine sort of habits

of successful people because some people have seven habits, other people have six keys,

maybe someone else has five principles. So how did you settle on these nine things and what

are they based on? Basically, the idea for me came from my background is as a research

psychologist, I come from sort of an academic background doing research on. And the questions

I was always interested in had to do with sort of why some people handle difficulty better than

other people do. Why some people seem to sort of be able to set goals and reach them and other

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