3 - Defining Success
Detailing the Criteria for Achievement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2021
Summary
The goal of this chapter is to call into question the ways we inherently define success and force us to consider and subsequently be explicit about the criteria we use to evaluate our goals. Importantly, this chapter is not intended to devalue the importance of evaluating success by the outcomes, but rather to acknowledge that the outcome is not the only measure of success. Indeed, though individuals seem by default to define success as a function of the desired outcome, the process by which that outcome is attained as well as the effort invested in the process to attain the desired outcome offer alternative criteria that may best fit depending on the goal.
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- Mastering Self-Control , pp. 53 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021