Picking the Right Jungle
It is worth noting here that this book is not saying “get real” and perhaps end up with a small promotion and one extra bedroom. It is a book aimed at helping those with a high fear of failure to understand what has happened to them and how they can use this knowledge to calculate better responses that help them achieve better results in the future.
If it leads us permanently away from the High-FF prison of negative self-fulfilling responses to the sunlit uplands of achievement motivation then that is a massive, massive, success – and one that cannot be measured in guitar-shaped swimming pools. And goal-setting is a vital part of this – the most vital part, in fact, as it is about pointing us in the right direction after ...
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