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#154 Emily Balcetis: Setting and Achieving Goals

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

CHAPTER

The Influence of Self-Perception on Goals

This chapter examines how self-perception and identity influence goal achievement, emphasizing self-consistency theory's role in shaping actions and responses to feedback. It also explores the impact of mental health on visual perception and the fixation on negative stimuli, which reinforces adverse beliefs. Furthermore, the discussion includes concepts like negativity dominance and loss aversion, highlighting how our evolutionary history affects our focus on negative experiences over positive ones.

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