Thanks. 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.d

Thanks. 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.