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To play Devil's advocate here, isn't your personal thesis that "long term goal focus" is important for success also based on anecdotal evidence? Or do you have

• kolya3 18y ago
  Dr. Banfield at Harvard University wrote a book in the 70's based on his study of this question ("The Unheavenly City"). His main finding is that long term success is tied to "long term goal focus".
• alecco 18y ago
  I read that on neuroscience blogs and peer-reviewed papers, they were doing fMRI based tests on subjects and their life achievements (but, as usual, telling them they were testing something else.) I can't find it right now as "long-term goal" is just too broad for a search (on Google Scholar.) It is very likely in one of the Encephalon entries, but there are about 52 of those with 10 to 20 references each, and spread out over dozens of blogs (they each turn in a different neuroscience blog.) Even if you don't find it, you'll sure find very interesting research in an easy to read form (well, [interesting] at least for me.) Related but not what I had in mind at that moment: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/09/18/060918fa_fact?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/09/18/060918fa_fact?cu... I don't know much about anything. My back-in-time kind of dream is to make my (younger) self pick neuroscience (well, that or protein biochemistry.)