Every January, offices quietly reset. New planners appear on desks. Fresh notebooks open in meetings. To-do lists look neater ...

Hard-charging, Type-As may need a different goal-achievement approach than people who approach goals more methodically and analytically. Here’s how to best set yourself up for success based on your ...

One theory contrasts implicit and explicit motivation. When we are implicitly motivated, we learn because we find the subject fascinating, because we want to achieve mastery of the subject or because ...

Performing well, getting things done and constantly improving are part of the human experience. People have an instinct to matter—and you want to do great things in your work and in your personal life ...

: In the mouse brain, two neural pathways were discovered: The first is active during motivation; the second is active only at the termination of motivation. In humans, these pathways could underlie ...

Goals can be motivating, as they help you plan for the future and have something to strive for. They can also be demotivating when you don’t complete them perfectly. You might criticize yourself for ...

According to researchers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, SMART goals undervalue ambition, focus narrowly on individual performance, and ignore the importance of discussing goals throughout the ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 34, No. 2 (April 2019), pp. 295-315 (21 pages) Examining how students’ epistemic beliefs (EB) influence their cognition is central to EB research.