Sublime

Psychologists researching learning in the 1970s found that setting incremental subgoals has positive psychological effects. 1.Close-by goals provide immediate incentives in performance compared with far-away ones where people tend to slacken their efforts. 2.They help people better understand what needs doing, allowing them to choose what

The gift of this strategy is that she then becomes skillful at sensing the needs of others and providing what’s needed.

Well, these children of praise have now entered the workforce, and sure enough, many can’t function without getting a sticker for their every move.

Dr. Samantha Boardman, a Harvard-, Cornell-, and University of Pennsylvania–trained positive psychologist and the author of Everyday Vitality,

“Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy.” As Summitt spoke, Tennessee had won five NCAA Championships, but only once when they were favored to win. “On

Dr. Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University, we have a mind-set problem. Dweck has done an enormous amount of research to understand what makes someone give up in the face of adversity versus strive to overcome it.

In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.