Keynote Address: Easier: Why Achieving Your Goals Starts with Shaping Your Situation
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Speaker: Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania
It is often said that you cannot control your circumstances, but, with effort, you can control how you react to them. In this Keynote presentation, Duckworth challenges this perspective. New research grounded in the Process Model of Behavior Change shows why pursuing goals is easier when you proactively choose or change your situation. While mustering willpower feels heroic, it is more strategic to shape the people, places, and things that surround you.
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