An eminent social psychologist and blogger for Psychology Today offers insight into how goals work and the sources of self-defeating behaviors, in a guide that features strategies for problem solving, achieving resiliency and increasing willpower. An eminent social psychologist offers insight into how goals work and the sources of self-defeating behaviors, and provides strategies for problem solving, achieving resiliency, and increasing willpower.
Foreword
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Carol S. Dweck
Introduction
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Part One Get Ready
Chapter 1 Do You Know Where You Are Going?
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Chapter 2 Do You Know Where Your Goals Come From?
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Part Two Get Set
Chapter 3 The Goals That Keep You Moving Forward
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Chapter 4 Goals for Optimists and Goals for Pessimists
