10: Myths
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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The Myth of Focusing in Your Early 20s
The Yale Motivational Study is one of my favorite things never heard of it. It's fantastic basically some researchers Went to a group of Yale students or graduating They said do you know what you want to be about 20 years time? I are you focused on a certain outcome only three percent did they track that group for 20 years?" Three percent is earning 97% of the income of the cohort in other words My goodness Focusing in your early 20s great idea if you weren't want to earn lots of money a few years later. That's impressive and I read about it I thought that's odd because what's called a longitudinal study where you're tracking people You're completely paying the back
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