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Setting, Elaborating, Reflecting on Goals Improves Academic Performance (2010) [pdf]

70 points by shawndumas 8y ago

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mg4so7 8y ago
Fuck this paper. Why? Because Paul Graham and Sam Altman are butt buddies, that's why.
- mherrmann 8y ago
  Care to elaborate why?
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kaizen1 8y ago
Jordan Peterson is a co-author and this is the basis of the so called Future Authoring program. I did it between semesters during my postgrad. I went from 64.5% in the first semester to 87.5% in the second.
eBombzor 8y ago
Very interesting, though I wished they used a wider group than just "self-nominating" students. It would be interesting to see if this improved academic performance for regular students (> 3.0 GPA) who didn't have a goal-oriented plan before, or if most of those students already partake in something similar.
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azeirah 8y ago
Peterson is a controversial figure for many reasons at the moment. I've taken the Future Authoring Program, and although I have no data to back my feeling up with, it is thorough, and very helpful. I had never before reflected on my past, and it has planted the seeds that were necessary to help me understand why I'm so horribly, horribly fucked up at the moment... I can definitely recommend the Future Authoring Program (and the Past Authoring as well).
- projektir 8y ago
  > I had never before reflected on my past, and it has planted the seeds that were necessary to help me understand why I'm so horribly, horribly fucked up at the moment... Hmm. I'm a bit surprised by this, I reflect on my past all the time. Too much, probably. I don't think imagining one's idealized future is particularly difficult, but I'm also not sure if it helps much at all with actually reaching said idealized future. It's often just easier and more straightforward to adapt to things that come along the way, and sometimes what you want can drastically change over time, as well. o.O
throwawaymanbot 8y ago
Fair warning.. Jordan B Peterson's name is on this pdf. So it may not be actually any good. (Judging on what he writes in his recent "Loved by the Alt-Right/white supremacist" best sellers and those "Watch Jordan B Peterson Destroy/Demolish a SJW" videos on youTube).

70 points by shawndumas 8y ago

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mg4so7 8y ago

Fuck this paper. Why? Because Paul Graham and Sam Altman are butt buddies, that's why.

mherrmann 8y ago
Care to elaborate why?
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kaizen1 8y ago

Jordan Peterson is a co-author and this is the basis of the so called Future Authoring program. I did it between semesters during my postgrad. I went from 64.5% in the first semester to 87.5% in the second.

eBombzor 8y ago

Very interesting, though I wished they used a wider group than just "self-nominating" students. It would be interesting to see if this improved academic performance for regular students (> 3.0 GPA) who didn't have a goal-oriented plan before, or if most of those students already partake in something similar.

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azeirah 8y ago

Peterson is a controversial figure for many reasons at the moment. I've taken the Future Authoring Program, and although I have no data to back my feeling up with, it is thorough, and very helpful. I had never before reflected on my past, and it has planted the seeds that were necessary to help me understand why I'm so horribly, horribly fucked up at the moment... I can definitely recommend the Future Authoring Program (and the Past Authoring as well).

projektir 8y ago
> I had never before reflected on my past, and it has planted the seeds that were necessary to help me understand why I'm so horribly, horribly fucked up at the moment... Hmm. I'm a bit surprised by this, I reflect on my past all the time. Too much, probably. I don't think imagining one's idealized future is particularly difficult, but I'm also not sure if it helps much at all with actually reaching said idealized future. It's often just easier and more straightforward to adapt to things that come along the way, and sometimes what you want can drastically change over time, as well. o.O

throwawaymanbot 8y ago

Fair warning.. Jordan B Peterson's name is on this pdf. So it may not be actually any good. (Judging on what he writes in his recent "Loved by the Alt-Right/white supremacist" best sellers and those "Watch Jordan B Peterson Destroy/Demolish a SJW" videos on youTube).