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Dec 2024
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1015: The Science Behind Setting, and Ac...

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Caroline Miller shares the overlooked science that helps you pursue your most ambitious goals. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The top goal-setting myths to abandon immediately 

2) The two types of goals and how to set them 

3) The BRIDGE methodology for effective goal-setting 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1015 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT CAROLINE — 

For over three decades, Caroline Adams Miller has been a pioneer with her groundbreaking work in the areas of the science of goal setting, grit, happiness, and success. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one’s life and work for maximum transformation. 

She is the author of nine books, including My Name is Caroline, Getting Grit, Positively Caroline and Creating Your Best Life, which the "father of Positive Psychology," Dr. Martin Seligman, lauded in Flourish as "adding a major missing piece" to the world of goal setting. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and attained one of the first 32 degrees in the world in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

• Book: Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life 

• Book: Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose 

• Book site: BigGoalsBook.com 

• Child Mind Institute: ChildMind.org 

• Website: CarolineMiller.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein 

• Book: Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chessler 

• Study: “Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect” by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King, Ed Diener 

• Survey: VIA's Character Strengths Survey 

• Tool: Perplexity 

• Tool: Google Notebook  


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