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Regarding your last point, the Harvard goals study doesn't actually exist: http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/fact-or-fiction-the-truth-about-the-harva
by acoustic 13y ago
Regarding your last point, the Harvard goals study doesn't actually exist: http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/fact-or-fiction-the-truth-about-the-harvard-written-goal-study http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/fact-or-fiction-t...
- datawander 13y agoThanks @acoustic, it's always nice to see bunk-busting. Just looking at the quote makes the statistic sounds hard to believe. Did the story include drop-outs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg?
- read 13y agoThanks. The Harvard goals study doesn't exist. After hearing of this myth, Gail Matthews at Dominican University tried to perform the goals study: http://www.dominican.edu/academics/ahss/undergraduate-programs-1/psych/faculty/fulltime/gailmatthews/researchsummary2.pdf http://www.dominican.edu/academics/ahss/undergraduate-progra... The conclusion: writing one’s goal enhances goal achievement. You are 42 percent more likely to achieve your goals just by writing them down. It's curious how HN users found nothing positive in my comment above and chose to downvote it. It must have seemed my intention was to mislead people.