There is a lot of advice in books, courses, and on the internet about how to set and achieve goals, but little of it is based in the scientific study of goal pursuit.
Many times people go about pursuing a desired outcome by this method:
Naïve Model of Goal Striving
1. Commit to goal.
2. ???
3. Profit!
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[As background to this long post, I highly recommend that you read another set of long posts from Venkatesh Rao entitled The Gervais principle. I will be using terminology from his first article but summarizing a bit at the beginning of this post, so reading Rao's isn't strictly required.] Let’s start with a hypothesis. I [...]
I suspect that the future of personal development is being born right now, but not in the sophisticated online marketing scams techniques of some bloggers and ebook writers. No, the future of personal development is being born primarily in social psychology and neuroscience journals. My hope for the future is that the next generation of [...]