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Defeating the Delmore Effect – Sean Horgan

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The Delmore Effect, as defined by Paul Whitmore PhD dissertation (unable to find a good copy online), is our tendency to provide more articulate and explicit goals for lower priority areas of our lives. It appears that the daunting nature of truly important goals may motivate the self to deflect this anxiety by attending to less important, but also less threatening goals. The best way to counter to Delmore Effect is to recall a success that is not relevant to the important goal. To spot your life’s guiding star – Paul Whitmore I grabbed this from a now-defunct Stanford intraweb page: My research built upon the well-grounded observation that people can accomplish more when they set clear goals.Almost everyone recognizes the great value of setting goals. Still, most people tend to set much more explicit goals for low priority domains than for their most important ambitions. (This lapse is labeled the Delmore Effect, after the failed poet, Delmore Schwartz). It seemed reasonable that this

Defeating the Delmore Effect – Sean Horgan Skip to content Defeating the Delmore Effect The Delmore Effect, as defined by Paul Whitmore PhD dissertation (unable to find a good copy online), is our tendency to provide more articulate and explicit goals for lower priority areas of our lives. It appears that the daunting nature of truly important goals may motivate the self to deflect this anxiety by attending to less important, but also less threatening goals. The best way to counter to Delmore Effect is to recall a success that is not relevant to the important goal. To spot your life's gu

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