3 Books to Kickstart Your New Year's Resolutions

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1:16One of these is the popular SMART Goals framework. She says it can encourage low goals without enough guidance to determine whether the goal is a good idea to begin with. Instead, Miller suggests an approach grounded in psychological research. Science says the most effective goals are both challenging and specific and can be categorized as either performance goals or learning goals. In tiny experiments, neuroscientist Anne-Laure LeCun argues that traditional goal-setting methods are too linear and promote fear and isolation. She says we can replace rigid timelines with fluid experimentation by making three mental shifts.

1:54From anxiety to curiosity, from fixed ladders to growth loops, and from outcome to process. In his book Reset, author Dan Heath writes about effective ways to make progress when traditional methods just aren't working. He talks a lot about finding leverage points, or places where just a little bit of effort can yield big results. and then reallocating your resources like time, energy, and money to maximize those results.