Curiosity Daily Podcast: How to Set the Right Goals (and Actually Achieve Them!)
Achieving goals can be difficult, but that may be because you're setting the wrong goals in the first place. That's why happiness expert and executive coach Stella Grizont returns to the Curiosity Podcast to discuss how to set the right goals and how to overcome the challenges of sticking to them.
February 13, 2018
Episode Show Notes:
More reading from Curiosity:
Additional resources discussed:
- The Vision Generator (free worksheet from Stella Grizont)
- Dopamine Functions | News-Medical.net
- Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows | ScienceDaily
- Goal Progress and Happiness | Psychology Today
- A CONVERSATION WITH Daniel Kahneman; On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind | The New York Times
- Overcoming an Aversion to Loss | The New York Times
- The Psychology of Sunk Cost | Ohio University
- WOOPAAH (Stella Grizont is Founder and CEO)
- @StellaGrizont on Twitter
- The Surprisingly Recent Time Period when Boys Wore Pink, Girls Wore Blue, and Both Wore Dresses | TodayIFoundOut.com
- No Girls Allowed | Polygon
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