I Want to Achieve, I Don't Want to Fail, ["So I Want to Achiev, So I Want Not to Fail."

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Many people, myself included, ["are high in the desire to achieve]," he says. "But boy, I'm powerfully motivated not to look stupid," Perma adds. Failure doesn't mean an objective measure of 45 on a test; it means not meeting an expectation or that of someone else and fall short of that." He explains how this can lead to procrastination.

Nic Voge directs the McGraw Center’s Learning Programs, including the Undergraduate Learning Program and the Graduate Learning Program. Nic is also a founding member of the Princeton Perspective Project, Principedia, and the Academic Resilience Consortium (formerly The Resilience Consortium).

Learn more about Nic at: https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/people/nic-voge.

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